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<blockquote data-quote="ruchirarsm" data-source="post: 9066743" data-attributes="member: 233895">Condoms 'too big' for Indian men&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; By Damian Grammaticus&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; BBC News, Delhi&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42330000/jpg/_42330633_203condoms-ap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; There is a &quot;lack of awareness&quot; over condom sizes&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms&nbsp; made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of&nbsp; Indian men. &nbsp;The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms. &nbsp;It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India. &nbsp;The two-year study was carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research.&nbsp; &nbsp;Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the&nbsp; country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last&nbsp; millimetre.&nbsp; &nbsp;The scientists even checked their sample was&nbsp; representative of India as a whole in terms of class, religion and urban&nbsp; and rural dwellers.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Sunil Mehra&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The conclusion of all this scientific endeavour&nbsp; is that about 60% of&nbsp; Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimetres&nbsp; shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture.&nbsp; &nbsp;Doctor Chander Puri, a specialist in reproductive health&nbsp; at the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the BBC there was an&nbsp; obvious need in India for custom-made condoms, as most of those&nbsp; currently on sale are too large.&nbsp; &nbsp;The issue is serious because about one in every five&nbsp; times a condom is used in India it either falls off or tears, an&nbsp; extremely high failure rate.&nbsp; &nbsp;And the country already has the highest number of HIV infections of any nation.&nbsp; &nbsp;'Not a problem' &nbsp;Mr Puri said that since Indians would be embarrassed&nbsp;&nbsp; about going to a chemist to ask for smaller condoms there should be&nbsp; vending machines dispensing different sizes all around the country. &nbsp;&quot;Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a&nbsp; lack of awareness that different sizes are available. There is anxiety&nbsp; talking about the issue. And normally one feels shy to go to a chemist's&nbsp; shop and ask for a smaller size condom.&quot; &nbsp;But Indian men need not be concerned about measuring up&nbsp; internationally according to Sunil Mehra, the former editor of the&nbsp; Indian version of the men's magazine Maxim. &nbsp; &quot;It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters,&quot; he said. &nbsp;&quot;From our population, the evidence is Indians are doing pretty well. &nbsp;&quot;With apologies to the poet Alexander Pope, you could say, for inches and centimetres, let fools contend.&quot;<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruchirarsm, post: 9066743, member: 233895"] Condoms 'too big' for Indian men [SIZE=2] By Damian Grammaticus BBC News, Delhi [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif[/IMG] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42330000/jpg/_42330633_203condoms-ap.jpg[/IMG] There is a "lack of awareness" over condom sizes [B]A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.[/B] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]The study found that more than half of the men measured had penises that were shorter than international standards for condoms. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]It has led to a call for condoms of mixed sizes to be made more widely available in India. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]The two-year study was carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Over 1,200 volunteers from the length and breadth of the country had their penises measured precisely, down to the last millimetre. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]The scientists even checked their sample was representative of India as a whole in terms of class, religion and urban and rural dwellers. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif[/IMG] [B]It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters[/B] [IMG]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif[/IMG] Sunil Mehra The conclusion of all this scientific endeavour is that about 60% of Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimetres shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Doctor Chander Puri, a specialist in reproductive health at the Indian Council of Medical Research, told the BBC there was an obvious need in India for custom-made condoms, as most of those currently on sale are too large. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]The issue is serious because about one in every five times a condom is used in India it either falls off or tears, an extremely high failure rate. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]And the country already has the highest number of HIV infections of any nation. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2][B]'Not a problem'[/B] [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Mr Puri said that since Indians would be embarrassed about going to a chemist to ask for smaller condoms there should be vending machines dispensing different sizes all around the country. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]"Smaller condoms are on sale in India. But there is a lack of awareness that different sizes are available. There is anxiety talking about the issue. And normally one feels shy to go to a chemist's shop and ask for a smaller size condom." [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]But Indian men need not be concerned about measuring up internationally according to Sunil Mehra, the former editor of the Indian version of the men's magazine Maxim. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2] "It's not size, it's what you do with it that matters," he said. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]"From our population, the evidence is Indians are doing pretty well. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]"With apologies to the poet Alexander Pope, you could say, for inches and centimetres, let fools contend." [/SIZE][URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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