thanks jed, beat me to it. but yes, acutally, there was a study done that showed that about 5 percent of condoms used correctly failed mechanically, usually as a result of being past the expiration date (a higher problem in the third world). ill have to hunt down the study. and theres a higher failure rate for improper use, which is more users than youd think. problems like lack of lube, using petroleum based lubes, bad sizing, improper rolling, ect.
and then, you have your condom distribution drives. they dont always... turn out the way youd like. http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/halfmoon1/condom-staple.jpg something like 100k condoms they did this too, then distributed... On Apr 6, 2005 7:34 AM, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > > "At the peak of fertility, a woman has only roughly a 1% chance of becoming > pregnant, so if 5% of condoms fail, and a couple always uses one during > every phase of intercourse, they have roughly a 0.05% chance of pregnancy > from that failure, which is tantamount to zero." > > Oops. Not "from that failure." I meant: "They have roughly a 0.05% chance of > pregnancy from one sex act." Obviously, if a simple condom without > spermicide fails, they are back to the natural, unprotected pregnancy rate. > > I do not recall the peak fertility rate, and I cannot find it. I think it is > ~1%. Certainly not ~10%. > > - Jed > -- "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" Voltaire
