Most condoms in India aren't used for sex

[emad]

By The Associated Press
(4/25/05 - NEW DELHI, India) — 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.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/042505_APsn_condoms.html

[ET Awful]

1. Well, that's one use for condoms I never would have thought of

Wow, who would've guessed.

[stellanoir]

6. see #5

[ET Awful]

7. What I want to know is what they used for loom lube before

condoms became available .. . . or do I really want to know?

:evilgrin:

[stellanoir]

8. LOL & ewwwwwwww

ah. . . .probably not.

[Zuni]

2. oooh, I love balloon animals!

[lenidog]

3. I read that and howled

No wonder India has hit the one billion mark. All of the condoms are being used for something besides sex.

[GOPBasher]

4. You can use condoms for sex?!?!?! Wow, I never knew that! n/t

[stellanoir]

5. with that sort of ingenuity

it's no wonder our jobs are being outsourced to them.

[Strawman]

9. I saw that "on the fingers" use in the movie Edward Penishands