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Posted on 04/23/2005 5:12:09 AM PDT by Born Conservative
NEW DELHI - Only a quarter of condoms made in India are used for sex, most of the others are used to make saris, toys and bathroom slippers, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The condoms are valuable to manufacturers because of the lubricant on them. Sari weavers place the condoms on their thread spools and the lubricant on the prophylactics is rubbed off on the thread, making it move faster through their sewing machines, The Economic Times newspaper quoted an Indian industry official as saying.
Sari makers also turn the condom's inside out, place them on their fingers and use the high-quality lubricant to polish gold and silver threads used in the traditional Indian women's outfits.
India manufactures more than 1 billion condoms annually to check population growth and curb the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Euw.
uh...what?
LOL! That is interesting.
They are also used for building roads, roofs, and for covering gun barrels.
Quick! Send them pickles! Teach them how to properly utilize this resource! (Maybe they don't have enough pickles?)
Sounds like there's an underserved demand for latex gloves and petroleum jelly in India. A business opportunity for somebody ...
Why doesn't someone just sell them the lubricant directly. Are the condoms available because of some liberal program?
My Sari has a first name it's T-R-O-J-A-N.
My Sari has a second name it's S-U-P-R-A.
ROTFLMAO
Well, I guess there is a good use for those things after all! ;o)
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o/~ Who's sari now... o/~
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I bet there is, and someone gets money/promotions/etc depending on how many of these are 'used', or the price is maintained so low through goverment programs that the condoms are cheaper than gloves or lub by themselves.
Reminds me of how in the Azores, the EU had huge price supports to the little dairy farmers, and Portugal made sure milk sold at rock-bottom prices. The result? Milk in the stores was cheaper than what the pasteurizing plants paid the dairies. Farmers would buy cases of milk, pour it into their holding tanks, and sell it as raw for a few pennies a liter profit.
You can say that again!
The question is: What did Bill Clinton know about condoms and when did he know it?
I question the timing.....
(no National Endowment for the Art of Loving funds were used in this post.)
The UNFPA is known for sending condoms instead of FOOD to disaster areas.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315743/posts
UNFPA Calls for US $28m Funding to Supply Condoms to Victims of Tsunami (Still Overpopulated Alert!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316044/posts
UN: WHAT TO DO WITH $28 MILLION WORTH OF CONDOMS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318353/posts
Harvard Doc: Abstinence, Monogamy Can Help Win War on AIDS--Condom Camp Keeps Turning Blind Eyes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360547/posts
Acquiring UN subsidized products in lieu of purchasing disposable retail maintenance products for private enterprise is global economics 101. They might make them in India, but unmentioned is who pays for them and the economic impact they have on the products being replaced.
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