Condoms a big problem for men in India
Most men's penises are an inch too short for popular prophylactics

Updated: 3:53 p.m. ET Dec 11, 2006

NEW DELHI - Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.

The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 1 inch shorter than those condoms catered for.

For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 2 inches. A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn't do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.

"One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis," the council's Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.

Puri said many men in India, which has the world's highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms.

"We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs," he said.

The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story "Indian men don't measure up."

ha, I read that the only day. good to know.

They mentioned that on the Stern Show yesterday. Hey, they have tiny wangs, but excel at math and science.

Yeah it must take a real math genius to fit 10,000 more impovershed people per square inch than possible.

xmikex said:

ha

2nd ha! to that!

3rd ha. I think the smart ones just move here, so they can teach college classes and have students not understand one fucking word they say. We had this one statistics professor -- it took us 2 weeks to figure out that "Sigh" meant "Pi" (as in 3.14). I should have kicked him in his small penis.

largefreakatzero said:

I was in a chem lab my freshman year with 12 girls and one guy: that guy being me. I had to drop the class because the professor's accental butchery of English could not be deciphered by my pea-sized brain.

largefreakatzero said:

i dont consider that a fair trade off

indian man: "i am so fucking bullshit about having tiny penis!"

"and the black people are like, hey bitch! and the indian people we do not call our women in such a way"

Yeti said:

Neither do I. I much prefer being a semi-well hung non-genius.