NIH Wastes $400K: Why Do Men Dislike Condoms?

Aside from having enjoyed the many medical and recreational benefits of smokin the reefer, I simply don’t want my tax dollars wasted by my government on frivolous nonsense. For instance, a very frigid department of the NIH decided that a half million dollars wasn’t too much money to figure out why men prefer to not use a condom during sex. Mr Hats’ answer is that it’s the same reason I take my mail-order bride out of the plastic bag before eating her; it’s more awesome that way. That’s $423,500 that could have been spent in far better places, like research in to vaccines and cures for sexually transmitted diseases. Unfortunately, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction needed some extra greenbacks to fund their kegger/orgy that month and were awarded the extensive grant. “This project aims to advance our understanding of, among other factors, the role of cognitive and affective processes and condom application skills in explaining problems with condom use in young, heterosexual adult men,” reads an excerpt of the study, which will be funded through May 2011. Using the magical powers of copy/paste, I’ve found that the first phase is to ask men about various issues of arousal and sensation, including physical experience and perceptions about condoms. Then, they’ll perform a laboratory study about those same damn questions, in an effort to presumably make condoms less like fat free rice cakes and more like delicious cotton candy.

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