Calling all Windsor men: The university needs your used rubbers.
University of Windsor in Ontario is looking for 100 of the city's men to amass their used condoms for three months and drop them off at campus labs - for $50.
The curious project is testing "failure rates." Nursing professors are looking for microscopic holes in condoms exposed to "bedroom pressures." They also need unused domes - say, ones that have been carried around in a wallet for three months.
"We tend to assume that the failure rate is human error, [that] we store them incorrectly, damage them with fingernails or jewellery, or that we don't put them on properly," says Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, a sociology professor and Canada Research Chair in social justice and sexual health who is involved in the study. "But we don't really know how much is human error and how much might be something that could be improved in the manufacturing."
Participants must be over 18 and have experience handling the contraceptives, as well as prospective partners: Over three months, each man must return 10 used and 10 unused condoms in a plastic bottle that's then sealed in a baggie.
Then it's off to the campus labs, where the condoms will be filled with a benign virus that's larger than HIV. They will then be suspended in a beaker filled with neutral solution and jiggled on an agitator. Finally, the solution will be tested to see if any of the virus has seeped out.
"[Condoms are] far better than not using condoms. But they're not 100 per cent," Dr. Maticka-Tyndale said.
Any volunteers on here? I'm sure there must a few haha
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Mar-04-2009 15:26
Owen M
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gross, but interesting.
....reminded me of one time I went out west for a few months. My mom decided to give my room an overhaul (she had a guest coming from over seas). The next time I spoke to her on the phone she said "yeah, so I found a couple used connies under your bed"
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Mar-04-2009 15:35
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Location: Milton, ON Canada
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Mar-04-2009 15:37
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Location: on holiday
quote:
Originally posted by Owen M
gross, but interesting.
....reminded me of one time I went out west for a few months. My mom decided to give my room an overhaul (she had a guest coming from over seas). The next time I spoke to her on the phone she said "yeah, so I found a couple used connies under your bed"
OMG I would have thrown up if I was your mom lol
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Mar-04-2009 15:57
Geoffb3
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Owen M
gross, but interesting.
....reminded me of one time I went out west for a few months. My mom decided to give my room an overhaul (she had a guest coming from over seas). The next time I spoke to her on the phone she said "yeah, so I found a couple used connies under your bed"
Mar-04-2009 16:01
T_ALI
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Mississauga
that's fucking disgusting!!! who the hell holds on to their used condoms?
Mar-04-2009 16:06
v-vaughn
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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Oakville, Ontario
quote:
Originally posted by Owen M
gross, but interesting.
....reminded me of one time I went out west for a few months. My mom decided to give my room an overhaul (she had a guest coming from over seas). The next time I spoke to her on the phone she said "yeah, so I found a couple used connies under your bed"
University of Windsor in Ontario is looking for 100 of the city's men to amass their used condoms for three months and drop them off at campus labs - for $50.
One condom for $50 sounds like a good deal for me
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Mar-04-2009 19:24
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
WHAT THE FUCK
and also
quote:
Originally posted by Owen M
....reminded me of one time I went out west for a few months. My mom decided to give my room an overhaul (she had a guest coming from over seas). The next time I spoke to her on the phone she said "yeah, so I found a couple used connies under your bed"
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Mar-04-2009 21:55
Skipper
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2002
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
WHAT THE FUCK
and also
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
lol, my thoughts exactly.
So much wrong with this thread/idea/etc.
that's unfortunate
