OMG, you guys. First there was the Argentinian gay bar study, and then there was the Chinese prostitute study. And now? Well, now, there is a Very Important Study on why men don’t like condoms.
I am not making this up.
The NIH is funding a study to find out why men don’t care for condoms. They’re spending nearly a HALF MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money to answer a question which is already painfully obvious to people with Actual Brains.
Worse yet, is the fact that this study is being conducted an hour and a half from where I live. IU’s Kinsey Institute, with NIH’s funding, is on a quest to figure out why guys have condom issues.
The linked article describes the two-pronged approach to this Very Important Study:
“The first phase of the two-year study called ‘Barriers to Correct Condom Use’ will be a simple Q&A, but doctors say the second phase will plumb uncharted territory.
‘The second phase involves a laboratory study, and focuses on penile erection and sensitivity during condom application,’ reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.
The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems.”
People with Actual Brains see this study as a complete joke. David Williams, VP of Policy at Citizens Against Government Waste, said, “This government is so out of whack with what the priorities are that this actually makes sense that we’d be wasting money on a condom study rather than the real problems facing the country.”
Amen, brother.
Naturally, the researchers-in-charge of this absurd study claim that they are providing a public service. “Our study addresses important public health concerns in the U.S. and is the first study to test claims about arousal and sensation loss in a controlled scientific environment, while exploring factors that may be addressed in prevention and intervention programs,” they say.
Granted, that half a million is a drop in the bucket of the $29 BILLION the NIH has to work with each year.
But it just goes to show you that (gasp) Joe Biden was right about something. And that’s something I wasn’t expecting to say, well…ever.
