BBC shattered Indian masculine pride by reporting a study conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research that condoms made by International standards are oversized by 3 to 5 cm in length for Indian men! I wonder if spammers knew this all along and if there is a (not so) subtle connection with hundreds of spam emails flooding my inbox last year promising exotic remedies for increasing the size where it matters. Medical opinion, however, has always veered away from the size and held that what you can do with the size that counts. Spammers, of course, are getting smarter and anyone with an email account can testify that junk mail now touts more towards keeping it up longer rather than just stretching it!
Apart from deflating our combined musculine ego on the sub-continent - what else? Is this size mismatch the real culprit for India's ballooning 23% growth in population between 1991-2001! (as Kashmir shows, we have never been good at keeping our borders sealed).
Or, I wistfully think, can we pin the blame of 5.1 million AIDS sufferers in India on this gross overestimation in size of condoms!
Why did it take us so long to figure this out? Need I ask this question!
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