WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Condoms Work 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.640 Hey, everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:07.160 Y s K Select, I've chosen How Condoms Work, which 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.160 we released back in December of two thousand twelve. Thrill 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.720 to the number of times we use the word penis 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.120 and squirm and titter at the number of innuendows that 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.239 we unintentionally make and walk right past. It's a good 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.319 episode all around. I think you'll enjoy it. So here 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:33.960 we go. Welcome to Stuff you should Know from House 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:42.320 Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.040 I'm Josh Clark with me as always a Charles W. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.720 Chuck Bryant. Uh, you put us together, rub Us and lube, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.839 you got yourself stuff you should know. You have a 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.160 lawsuit on your hands from you right, yeah, yeah, I'm 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.720 seeing somebody. How you doing? Man? Oh, I gotta speeding 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.560 ticket on the way here. I'm piste off. Well, everything 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.600 of the last fifteen minutes before we started recording is 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:10.440 now explained. No, we talked about regular stuff that didn't 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.560 influence my my feelings about this. No, but you're still 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.200 like you had to burn your bonnet well for that 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.920 cop man. This state patrol, they don't mess around, No, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.800 they don't. There's no like, there's no small talk, there's 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.760 no nothing. It's give me your license and then here's 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.560 your ticket. I was like, but get what anyone who 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.560 refers to you and what the second person is citizen? 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.039 They're they're pretty serious people. Yeah, I'm gonna go to 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.679 court though, why not? Good for you, man? You know, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.440 we don't we don't work. You never know. You might 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.920 get out of it. Yeah, we'll give it a shot. Yeah. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.160 So aside from that, I had my condom on, so 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.400 I was safe driving. That's good. Yeah. You always wear one, right, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:02.640 you can't be too careful. How often do you change it? Gross? May? 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.280 That is so gross? All right? Uh, let's talk about 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.880 Measure B. Have you heard a Measure B H. It 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.160 is a referendum that Los Angeles County floated in this 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.560 last election that passed of the vote. Um. It said, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.880 if you're in the porn industry and you're filming, you 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.360 have to wear a condom. Good. Well, it depends on 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:26.400 who you are. If you are a citizen, yeah, you 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.560 probably think it's good, especially if you voted in favor 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.160 of it. If you're in the porn industry, though, you're like, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.359 people don't want to see that, And um, they're actually 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.760 talking about moving from Los Angeles, which is a big deal. People, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.760 I don't want to see a condom in their porn movies. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.440 I guess I don't want to see any of that stuff. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.560 I don't want to see what's attached to the condom either. Okay, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.400 so you wouldn't care, Uh no, yeah, I guess so 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 I don't want to see any that stuff. Apparently there's 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.200 a longstanding thing in the porn industry that's like, you 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.680 just don't show condoms and just it reflects the unnatural 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.240 nous maybe of of what you're seeing, Um, what you're like, well, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.639 wait a minute, that's probably not the pizza guy after all, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.119 you know. So, um, it blows the illusion that that's 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.560 real stuff. Yeah, so they're talking about, um about moving 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.400 from Los Angeles, which is huge Los Angeles because apparently 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.880 in just Los Angeles County porn it's a billion dollar industry. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.919 Oh yeah, dude, in the valley, just in one county. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.960 Can you imagine that. So there's a big kerfuffle going 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.120 on right now over condom usage in the porn industry. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.960 Did ever tell you about the time I scouted the 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.280 porn stage for a video shoot. No. Was this did 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.680 key for Sutherlands Driver take you there? No, But I 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.560 was working as a p A and we couldn't afford 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.520 like a real stage, so they sent me out to 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.680 the valley of this porn stage to go videotape it 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.520 and see what it looked like. And uh, it's like 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.080 a boardroom with a bed in the corner, and a 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.680 candy shop with a bed, and a gymnasium locker room 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.720 with a bed. It was really gross and I didn't 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.800 want to touch anything. And uh, as I was leaving, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.000 a bunch of big muscly men came in to get 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.000 their shoot on. Is that right? Yeah? It was a 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.600 gay porn I had that afternoon. It was Oh, so 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.680 it's just like whatever it like, it's a it's a 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.320 sound stage. Yeah, they take all comers, you know. And 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.920 so these two dudes walked in and I walked out, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.320 and I don't think we ended up using the stage, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.520 but it was funny. In the conference room set there 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.440 was a framed like Oland Mills or I was a 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.919 painting of Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson like at the 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.640 head of the conference room. No way, yep, sort of God. Well, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.599 that's one thing about porn and stream moguls. They seemed 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.560 to always have like a great sense of humor. I 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.640 think this is before Boogie Nights, even because I didn't 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.159 make that connection. It was just Burt Reynolds that was 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.400 definitely before Boogie Nights. But I mean, think about Larry Flint, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.159 He's he has a great sense of humor. Um, Hugh Hefner. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:03.320 Maybe I think the less hardcore you get, the less away, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.680 the further away from hardcore you get, the less the 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.360 less of a sense of humor the publisher has. I 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.640 bet there's some mathematical formula in there. Serious. Maybe we'll 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.920 see it one day. Alrighty, so condoms is what we're 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.320 talking about. Um, we should say, if you're young, you 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.800 might want to ask your parents if you should listen 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.239 to this. Oh man, you know that is a good 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.360 c o A like. I think it's up to parents 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.279 how they educate their children with this stuff. So we 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.400 have you have been forewarned. Go put your little pot 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.960 uh player down glass, Mom and dad? Should I be 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.479 listening to this. We're gonna be very clinical here, but 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.200 it's about sex and reproduction, so you can't be too careful. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.360 I wonder how many kids just like pull the cheeks 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:50.360 over what do you think? I don't know, vast majority. Okay, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:55.320 so um, let's try this again. We're talking condom um 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:03.440 and apparently they what we think of condom usage normal, widespread. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.440 It's talked about, there's billboards, whatever. Is actually a fairly 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.520 recent phenomenon. The billboards and things. Yeah, and just the 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.000 idea of like using condoms like that, that's pretty recent 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.880 um from the eighties. And actually it was HIV that 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:25.680 kind of um spurred this condom age that we live 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.520 in now. But there have been like another golden age 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:33.800 of condoms shortly after the Great War, right, that's right. Uh. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.600 Venarial diseases were pretty easy to get if you were 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.800 a sailor on leave in Europe, and so they encouraged 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.760 troops to use use condoms and distributed them in the 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.520 in the ranks, among the ranks, and when they came 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.560 back home they kept using. My guess they hit a 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.719 big boom here in the in the nineteen what I 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.200 guess forties. Post war era died down in the sixties 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.840 because the pill and then picked back up again in 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.320 the eighties because of HI be Yeah, because we we 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.440 figured out things too clever, things like penicillin and all 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.560 that stuff. Um that most of the STDs that condoms 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.120 were preventing at the time, you could just treat with antibiotics, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.520 so people weren't too concerned with that kind of thing. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:15.840 And then the pill came along and I was like, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.559 we have no need for condoms whatsoever. But then AIDS 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.880 hit and then condom usade started to go through the roof, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:27.160 which is good. Yeah, um, but apparently condoms are an 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.960 extremely old idea. At the very least, putting something on 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.960 the over your penis, whether for recreational purposes or whatever, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.600 is at least fifteen thousand years old, right, Yeah. I 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.160 think Tray Tracy of pop Stuff wrote this article. We 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.000 should point out she's responsible for the most comprehensive podcasts 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.360 we've done. Yeah. I never even think twice when I 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.160 look in and see her name in the biline, like, oh, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.840 well we should totally do this. Um. Yeah. She points 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.000 out that fifteen thousand years ago we have found cave 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.560 paintings that show images of a sheath penis. Yes, so 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.160 it's unclear whether or not these garments and decorations and 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.520 sheaths on the penises of Egypt and Greece and India 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.400 and Japan were for uh contraception as a barrier method 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.760 or adornment. I guarantee they weren't probably thinking of the 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:25.080 woman's comfort, no, especially with all the Yeah, the Japanese 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.520 version of the penis sheath or condom was made of 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.960 horn or tortoiseshell. They didn't care about the lady's pleasure. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:40.080 That's just mind bogglingly painful sounding, I know, no kidding. Um, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.280 So we know people started using condoms as a means 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:49.920 to prevent pregnancy by the Roman era, I think, of course, yeah, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.040 anytime it's sexy time stuff. They were leading the way totally. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.439 You know, yeah, anybody seemed Calligula can tell you that. Um. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.000 But then by the time Shakespeare rolls round, condoms are 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:08.320 pretty common. Yeah, if you count you know, wrapping linen 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.480 around the penis and tying it in a little bow 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.200 with a ribbon at the bottom. That's a condom back then, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.520 or stuffing something into the urethra and using a draw 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.800 string um ribbon to jump it on. It's another way 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.240 that they did things. I should post um photos of 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.920 your face, patures of your face that I'm taking like 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:33.920 throughout this episode. Um and well, by the time Shakespeare's age, Uh, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.040 people are using condoms pretty frequently, and one of the 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.320 things they're using it, probably the main thing they're using 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.960 it for, is to prevent syphilis, because just like in 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.680 World War Two, sailors to the New World came and 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.400 contracted this new disease that was found only in North 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.360 America at the time, um, and or I should say 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.800 the Western hemisphere. Uh, and uh, they brought it back 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.760 and they figured out after a little while, like, well, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.640 wait a minute, I think it has to do with sex. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.120 So they started using condoms for disease prevention through that. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.760 So this is a pretty big point here, right, like 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.080 by the the Age of Exploration. Yeah, people understand that 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.959 you can cover the penis to prevent pregnancy and to 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.440 prevent disease. Yeah, that's a huge advancement in society. I guess, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.720 oh totally. They were. They were on it. They still 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.160 like rolled in their own feces and like you ever 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.560 washed their hands or took a bath, but they knew 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.400 how to prevent syphilis with a little something in the 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.360 urethro with a draw stream attached to that's right by 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.280 the mid seventeen hundreds, Tracy points out they were starting 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:41.320 to use um condoms made from animal membranes, animal guts basically, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.160 which if you they still have these today, if you 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.040 use something called cheap skin. It is not cheap skin, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.200 but it is you know, cheap guts and testine lining. Yeah, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.160 and you could still buy those. I think they were 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.600 about what like one percent of the total sales these days. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.120 And they recommend those only if you are like a 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.520 monogamous bowl that's disease free and you're just using it 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.320 to like not get pregnant, right because it's very thin. Yeah, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.280 but it's not. It's it's porous, I believe enough for 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.880 pathogens to pass through. Like, you don't want to use 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.920 that if to prevent getting HIV? No, not smart? No, Um, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.240 well you want to use is a rubber condom? That's right. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.320 Thank you Charles Goodyear, Yeah, who gave us not only 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:32.040 rubber condoms, but um tires, uh, rubber hoses, rubber belts, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.720 pretty much anything that they made of rubber. You can 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.839 thank Charles Goodyear for because of his process of vulcanization, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.439 which is he added um sulfur and lead oxide to 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:48.560 rubber from the Heavia braziliensis tree, yeah, which they had 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.800 been tapping that tree for a while to get this. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.720 You know, latex is liquid rubber, but um, yeah, vulcanization 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.560 is where it became a thing that you could mask, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.840 you know, produce and it was safe and it was 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.880 uh stronger and uh more elastic, so you know, less 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.160 likely to break. But it was also thicker and rougher. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.440 And you had to go to your doctor to be 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.280 fitted for one of these condoms. The good the good 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.719 part is you could wash and reuse it. It was 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.480 basically like your your your condom. You probably have your 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.640 name on it. I imagine if you got fitted though, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.400 in the doctor's office, that would have to be with 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:29.160 an erection, right, yeah, you remember the little reflex hammer? Yeah, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.240 I do. What does that have to do this? That's 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.240 how they did it, all right, So I guess back 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.800 in the day, you would go to your doctor and 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.160 get an direction and he would fit you with a 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.560 condom right made from vulcanized rubber. Probably a bit of 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.280 a uh investment at this time as a man, so 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.840 I doubt if a lot of people were wearing them still. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.760 So again, imagine this is what I imagine it basically 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.240 probably looked a lot like um, a the nipple of 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.680 a baby bottle. Yeah, sure, you know. I'll bet you 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.240 there's somebody who collects old time e condoms, some rich 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.880 dude who has like an old time e condom collection. Yeah, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.520 of course, Um, there's someone who collects everything old. Uh. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.400 So by apparently people were using this. This is eighteen 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.240 thirty nine when Charles could with volcanization. So we're talking 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.520 like the mid to late nineteenth century. People are using 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.640 these rubber condoms from usable robber condoms. And then everybody 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.640 padded on the back a guy named Frederick Killian, Killian's 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:37.600 Red Beer inventor. Maybe no, it's possible. Um. He's more 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.720 famously known, however, for um creating a process of making 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:46.040 condoms directly from latex, which again is the sap of 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.520 the rubber tree found in Brazil, West Africa now Southeast Asia. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.520 Now um, and he would take these glass molds that 0:13:54.559 --> 0:14:00.240 where you could argue fallack in nature, you know, and 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.440 that he would dip it directly into latex. I don't 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.640 think he did it with his hand like that. I'm 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:11.000 just just like maybe initially he did. So he would 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.000 dip these these molds or um forms, right, what they're 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:20.240 called formers? Yeah, just into latex and uh he would 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.240 then vulcanize that, and what you had was a thinner, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:30.160 stronger um better I guess condom. Yeah, thinner and stronger, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.520 which is like, that's what you want out of a 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.600 condom because you want to have the sensation intact, but 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.960 you want to be safe and also had a longer 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.920 shelf life, and all of a sudden, Latex was the 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:47.440 way to go. Yeah. Now it's all condoms worldwide are latex. Yes, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.240 and that's a lot of condoms as we'll see. Yeah, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.480 some numbers. Should we should we talk about nicknames or not? 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.240 This seems all silly to me. I thought it was 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.800 silly too. Well, let's skip it then, Okay, maybe we 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.160 should just drop them indicasion lye. Okay, you know, so 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.880 people know because it's in here, so it's legit, right, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.680 Instead of condoms, will say jimmy hat. Okay, Frederick Killian 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.600 came up with the latext Jimmy hat. That's right. Uh. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.520 I guess if you don't know what a condom is 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.080 at all, we should go ahead and say it is 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.000 h a tube, it's a bag like tube that the 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.760 male penis fits in, open on one end obviously and 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.200 closed on the other. There's a little reservoir tip to 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:37.280 collect the semen um, supposedly, and um, it's got a 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.280 little ring around the open end, a thin rim that 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:47.400 you uh that you roll down upon the penis, and 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.800 that is a condom and it it basically it blocks 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.560 fluids from touching each other, which is how you get 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.520 pregnant and how you get disease. Keeps all those fluids 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.440 separate right the the form of this, the basic concept 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.640 of the condom hasn't changed much over the eons, but 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.040 just these little advances and technology like making them latex. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.760 Late tex is not porous, yes, Um, the only way 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.800 something's going to get through is if there's some sort 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.880 of damage to it or something like that. Um, the 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.960 condoms the same what you just described as generally been 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.480 in use for hundreds or thousands of years. Right, Yeah, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.080 it's a barrier method. Um, these days there are I 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.720 don't think we should talk about all those standards because 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.760 my eyes started to water a little bit when I 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.520 was reading all those with the length of within the thickness. No, no, 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.600 we should talk about that. But later on all those 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.240 standards when it was just like really yeah, international codes. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.360 There are international codes governing how they're made. Well, which 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.720 is good. I'm not knocking that, sure, it's just not exciting. Um. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.880 So yeah, these days the length they are at least 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:53.000 six point three inches hundred and sixty millimeter. Uh well 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.840 you did the conversion. Well I think you kind of 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.560 have to say an inchest, don't you? But have you 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.400 noticed that how stuff works? Articles have gone my trick. Yeah, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.560 now it's metric. The meat one, the lab ground meat one, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.040 both in in metric. All right, Well, I don't know 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.960 what to say about that. What about the width? What 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.440 is the width of econom when lead flat fifty two 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.480 millimeters which I did not convert to inches, the thickness 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:21.359 is point zero seven millimeters. That's that's very thin, which, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.159 like we said, that's what you want out of a condom. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.440 You want something strong, but you don't want to ruin 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:32.560 the sexual experience by wearing a rubber glove. You know 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:37.280 what I'm saying, ubber glove to and keep the rubber 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.359 gloves on your hands. That's right. They powder these things 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.640 with things like silica and corn starch and magnesium carbonate 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.000 to keep the latex from sticking to itself in packaging, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.080 or they can come loubed up with either regular lube 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.960 or made from silicone, or spermicidal lube, which this is 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.560 good to note now that I'm married, but I was 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.159 shown it on this back then. Apparently the spermocidal lubricants 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.000 can make things worse, specifically non oxidal nine. Yeah. It 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.879 says that they found that when used with a condom, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.639 it doesn't really do much to kill sperm, and even worse, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.280 it can cause vaginal irritation, which can lead to easier 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.560 disease transmission. Yeah, so that's apparently not a good thing 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.399 to use non oxid A nine on your condoms. Very 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.840 good to know. And that's not knocking in nine because 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.000 I think that's what's also you use outside of a condom, 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.160 right as as spermocidal right, so it's more effective there. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:19:03.520 I guess, how about manufacturing on them? Chuck about it all. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.480 It all starts um either in the forests of Brazil, 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.840 Southeast Asia, or West Africa, which is where you'll find 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.000 the rubber tree, which is still to this date where 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.960 latex comes from, unless it's synthetic latex of course, but 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.720 Let's say you're you're going the natural route, and um, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.400 you go to Brazil and get you some SAP, which 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:29.359 again sap from uh latex or rubber tree is latex. Okay, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.960 so you get that, you take it back to your factory, right, 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:38.040 that's right. Maybe in Brazil, maybe in Thailand, who knows? 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.760 Is that what they make these? Sure? Okay, I think 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.880 they make them pretty close to the rubber plantations. All 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.199 the pictures in this article are in like Thailand or 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.520 Brazil or whatever, and that's where you're gonna find rubber trees. Okay. Um, well, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.080 it doesn't only contain latex. You're gonna probably have some 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:57.400 other ingredients in your bucket there of sap, well, yeah, 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.800 you added along the way. Yeah, antifungal and antibacterial compounds. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.160 You want to keep the things clean. Zinc oxide, which 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:10.320 is accelerates the vulcanization process. UH, stabilizers like potassium laurate, 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:16.320 UM sulfur maybe which is another vulcanizing agent, ammonia anti coagulant. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:21.119 I didn't know that. Yeah, it keeps things from coagulating really, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.200 and UH other pigments and preservatives too, you know, because 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:30.320 you wanted to have that lovely fleshy look in strawberry flavoring. Well, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.199 we'll get to that too. Um. So these add to 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.480 the shelf life. Um. They make it harder to break 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.720 down because rubbers biodegradable naturally, and you don't want it 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:43.359 to break down. That's what happened the old days, when 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.480 the easiest lubes, the natural rubber, would just break down. 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.800 Your condom wasn't worth much for long, right, um, and 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.000 Tracy points that this is a good reason why you 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.199 never want to throw a condom used or otherwise in 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.720 a toilet. That's not how you throw a condom away, 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.159 because it doesn't break down. It's just gonna gum things up. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.320 It's gonna catch all the hair and toilet paper and 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.159 all that stuff and grow bigger and bigger and just 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.919 basically become this big giant condom damn in your sewer pipe. 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:15.200 That's right. So what do you do? Uh? You um, 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.000 wrap it in tissue paper, She suggests, wrap that tissue 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.280 paper in foil, put the foil in a five millimeter 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.960 thick black garbage bag, and bury it in your yard. 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.520 That's how you properly dispose of a used contom. That's 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.040 not true, but she does recommend the tissue and the 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.000 waste basket. Yeah, just not the toilet, or if you're 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.240 in New York City, just on the street or sidewalk, 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.000 just fine, in the back of your cab. Have you 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:42.840 ever noticed all the condoms on this There's a lot 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:44.720 of them out there. It's just it's a thing. It's 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.399 definitely a thing. If you live in New York you 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.919 know about it, or you can bet the tiles or something. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.640 I just don't get it, Like, are these people having 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.520 sex in the street they throw them out of the apartment. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.000 Maybe maybe that's what they're doing. That's gross, I know. 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:04.680 Could you imagine walking down the sidewalk after a nice dinner? Okay, alright, 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.840 So you've got the liquid latex goes in the vats, 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.240 and then you've got the formers, which have been around 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.640 for a while, and they are glass or ceramic molds 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.240 of a penis, and they're on a conveyor belt. Dip 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.520 it into the bat, get it, turn it and circle 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.280 to get a nice even coating and dry it out, 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.800 and then maybe a second or third dip to make 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.080 sure it's thick enough right, and then it's into the 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:34.520 tunnel oven for vulcanization. It has all of those, um, 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:36.800 those the zinc oxide and the sulfur in it to 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:39.679 help it vulcanize, so when it's exposed to heat, it 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.119 becomes stronger, that's right, right. Um. And then after that 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.840 I found this a little unsettling, Yeah, because I just 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.240 always thought of condoms is like untouched. It's like a 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.719 brand new newspaper, like you could deliver a baby with it, 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:55.239 you know. Um. But apparently after vulcanizing, the condoms are 0:22:55.280 --> 0:23:01.360 taken off of the formers, right, um, and they are washed. Yeah, 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:03.720 you're so the condom you're you're you're using has been 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.400 washed before. I just to find the odd I guess 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:10.400 probably mechanically washed, right Yeah. It says a washing machine, um, 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.440 and invest to remove odor, pathogens and allergen. So it's 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.760 good that they're doing this, But I agree with you. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.439 I kind of thought it was just like, you know, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.920 it was made and packaged immediately, and then it goes 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:25.639 on your body, right exactly, Not quite so you you 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:29.000 wash it. And then there's quality testing, which is a 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:32.520 lot of pretty cool stuff. There's some there's some cool 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.600 quality tests. If you ask me, well, let's get into it. 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.480 Then well, there's a standard called zipping, popping, rolling, and 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.919 other condom testing. Yeah, what you're testing for is you 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:47.480 want to prevent three things that make a condom uh ineffective. 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:52.640 Breaking the condom not good, slipping off definitely not good, 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.160 and leaking. None of these are good because they are 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:59.600 uh you know, they're not preventing the one thing or 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:01.280