From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms

Re:From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms by philthy on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:52AM (#3130103)

It's not the packaging that needs work, its the product. Popular forms of effective male pregnancy prevention are pretty limited. There really hasn't been any innovation in the field in a long time. Really we can launch people into space but we still have to put some sort of poly vinyl silicone sleeve on ding dongs? That's the best it gets?

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Re:From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms by JonnieCache on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:59AM (#3130143)

Pregnancy prevention is not the issue, it's STI transmission that must be prevented, especially in africa.

I doubt we will have a viable substitute for a latex barrier in that regard until some sort of pathogen-hunting nanotechnology becomes mainstream. By that point we may well have transcended our present notions of sex/gender altogether.

With regard to pregnancy prevention for men, there has indeed been recent innovation in this area: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/06/male_pill_boffinry/

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Re:From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms by yarone on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @01:09PM (#3131043)

There's a new and interesting product that's been discussed here on HN a couple of times: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/

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Re:From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms by chadgeidel on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:51AM (#3130382)

As JonnieCache said, it's not about pregnancy, but you may be interested in this: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/

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Re:From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms by philwelch on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @01:51PM (#3131223)

(We're all adults here. You can say "penis.")

It's not for the want of trying. There's ongoing research into a male pill, for instance, but it has yet to yield results.

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