A mildly interesting post about condoms

Condoms, are awesome.

Lets face it, they are usefull, are educational, and have great names like "french tickler"
Also, they get people who think they dont work (there name escapes me at the moment) all riled up, and makes them go red in the face when they say they would rather had no condoms, to which i would reply; 'so you would prefer herpes instead?'
I russled up some startistics about latex condoms (AKA, first thing on google):

1. Condoms are 98% effective when used correctly.
(which makes me think of all the inapropiate uses for condoms, sausage baloon any one?)
2. The average failure rate for condoms is 12%: reflective of people who do not use them properly or do not use them every time they have intercourse.
3. Laboratory tests show that neither sperm, which has a diameter of 3 microns, nor STD-causing organisms, which are a quarter to a ninth the size of sperm, can penetrate an intact latex condom.
4. If there is a leak in more than 4 per 1,000 condoms, the entire lot (approximately 5,000) is discarded.
now how reassuring is that?
www.condomdepot.com/learn/stats.cfm
(how awesome is that sitename?)

Condoms, if used right, condoms can protect oneself from biological nasties like HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, and syphilis etc

so, wear a condom why dont you?