WEBVTT - How Condoms Work 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:12.640 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.800 Josh Clark with me as always Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Uh, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.560 you put it together, rubb us and lube. You've got 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.520 yourself stuff. You should know. You have a lawsuit on 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.240 your hands from you, right, Yeah, somebody how you doing? Man? Oh, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.160 I gotta speeding ticket on the way here. I'm piste off. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.519 Well everything of the last fifteen minutes before we started recording, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.239 as I explained, No, we talked about regular stuff that 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.640 didn't influence my my feelings about this. But you're still 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:49.960 like you had to burn your bonnet well for that cop. Man. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.480 This state patrol they don't miss around, No, they don't. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.280 There's no like, there's no small talk, there's no nothing. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.240 It's give me your license and then here's your ticket. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.640 I was like, but get and that was anyone who 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.640 refers to you and the what the second person is, citizen? 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.120 They're they're pretty serious people. Yeah, I'm gonna go to 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.760 court though, why not? Good for you? Man? You know, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.520 we don't we don't work. You never know you might 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.000 get out of it. Yeah, we'll give it a shot. Yeah. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.200 So aside from that, I had my condom on, so 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.440 I was safe driving. That's good. Yeah, you always wear one, right, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:32.720 you can't be too careful? How often do you change it? Gross? May? 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.360 That is so gross? All right? Uh, let's talk about 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.920 Measure B. Have you heard a Measure B. H. It 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.200 is a referendum that Los Angeles County floated in this 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.640 last election that passed of the vote. Um, it said, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.960 if you're in the porn industry and you're filming, you 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.400 have to wear a condom. Good. Well, it depends on 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.480 who you are. If you are a citizen, yeah, you 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.640 probably think it's good, especially if you voted in favor 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.880 of it. Sure. If you're in the porn industry, though, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.640 you're like, people don't want to see that, and um, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.639 they're actually talking about moving from Los Angeles, which is 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.680 a big deal. People, I don't want to see a 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.639 condom in their porn movies. I guess I don't want 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:19.000 to see any of that stuff. I don't want to 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.960 see what's attached to the condom either. Okay, so you 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.760 wouldn't care? Uh no, yeah, I guess so I don't 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.639 want to see any stuff. Like apparently there's a longstanding 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.919 thing in the porn industry. It's like, you just don't 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.400 show condoms. It just it reflects the unnatural nous maybe 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.320 of of what you're seeing. Um, what you're like, Well, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.720 wait a minute, that's probably not the pizza guy after all, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.160 you know. So um, it blows the illusion that that's 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.600 real stuff. So they're talking about about moving from Los Angeles, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.519 which is huge Los Angeles because apparently in just Los 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.000 Angeles County porn it's a billion dollar industries in the valley, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.840 just in one county. Can you imagine in that So 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.799 there's a big carefuffle going on right now over condom 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.120 usage in the porn industry. To ever tell you about 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.920 the time I scouted the porn stage for video shoot. No, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.280 was this did key for Sutherland's driver take you there? No, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:14.920 But I was working as a p A and we 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.280 couldn't afford like a real stage, so we they sent 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:18.799 me out to the valley of this porn stage to 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.720 go videotape it and see what it looked like. And uh, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.639 it just like a boardroom with a bed in the corner, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.200 and a candy shop with a bed, and a gymnasium 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.480 locker room. With a bed. It was really gross and 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.480 I didn't want to touch anything. And uh, as I 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.320 was leaving, a bunch of big muscly men came in 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.600 to get their shoot on. Oh is that right? Yeah, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.400 was a gay porn I had that afternoon. It was Oh, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.680 so it's just like whatever. It's like, it's a it's 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.040 a sound stage. Yeah, they take all comers, you know. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.960 And so these two dudes walked in and I walked out, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.360 and I don't think we ended up using the stage, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.600 but it was funny. In the conference room set there 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.520 was a framed like Olan Mills or I was a 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.960 painting of Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson like at the 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.240 head of the conference room. No way, yep, sort of got. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.600 That's one thing about porn and stream moguls. They seem 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.600 to always have like a great sense of humor. I 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.720 think this is before Boogie Nights, even because I didn't 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.200 make that connection. It was just Burt Reynolds. That was 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.480 definitely before Boogie Nights. But I mean think about Larry Flint, 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:28.239 He's he has a great sense of humor. Um, Hugh Hefner. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:33.040 Maybe I think the less hardcore you get, the less 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.640 away the further away from hardcore, you get the less, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.839 the less of a sense of humor. The publisher has. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.960 I bet there's some mathematical formula in there. We'll see 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:47.359 it one day, alright, So condoms is what we're talking about. Um, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.760 we should say, if you're young, you might want to 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.000 ask your parents if you should listen to this. Oh man, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.159 you know that is a good c o A like. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.320 I think it's up to parents how they educate their 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.880 children with this stuff. So we have you have been 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.680 war Warren. Go put your little pot uh player down, Goss, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.240 Mom and dad? Should I be listening to this? We're 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.960 gonna be very clinical here, but it's about sex and reproduction, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.440 so it can't be too careful. I wonder how many 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.520 kids just like pull the cheeks over? What do you think? 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:22.120 I don't know? Vast majority? Okay, so um, let's try 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:29.039 this again. We're talking condoms, um, and apparently they what 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:34.839 we think of as condom usage normal, widespread. It's talked about, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:41.719 there's billboards whatever. Is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. The 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.360 billboards and things. Yeah, and just the idea of like 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.400 using condoms like that's that's pretty recent. Um. From the eighties. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.120 And actually it was HIV that kind of um spurred 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.120 this condom age that we live in now. But there 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.440 have been like another golden age of condoms, uh shortly 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:05.440 after the Great War, right, that's right. Venarial diseases were 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.800 pretty easy to get if you were a sailor on 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.200 leave in Europe, and so they encouraged troops to uh 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.440 use use condoms and distributed them in the in the ranks, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.160 among the ranks, and when they came back home, they 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.320 kept using. My guess they hit a big boom here 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.560 in the in the nineteen what I guess forties. Post 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.680 war era died down in the sixties because the pill exactly, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.679 and then picked back up again in the eighties because 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.119 of HIV. Yeah, because we we figured out things too clever, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.480 things like penicillin and all that stuff. Um that most 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.799 of the STDs that condoms were preventing at the time 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.400 you could just treat with antibiotics. So people weren't too 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.080 concerned with that kind of thing. And then the pill 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:46.680 came along and I was like, we have no need 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.640 for condoms orsoever. But then and then condoms us had 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.880 started to go through the roof, which is good. Yeah, Um, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.840 but apparently condoms are an extremely old idea. At the 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.919 at least, putting something on the over your penis, whether 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.799 for recreational purposes or whatever, is at least fifteen thousand 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.480 years old. Right, Yeah, I think Tracy of pop Stuff 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.480 wrote this article. We should point out she's responsible for 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.640 the most comprehensive podcasts we've done. Yeah. I never even 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.400 think twice when I look in and see her name 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.400 in the Byline'm like, oh, well, we should totally do this. Um. Yeah. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.600 She points out that fifteen thousand years ago we have 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:32.120 found cave paintings that show images of a sheathed penis. Yes, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:37.120 so it's unclear whether or not these garments and decorations 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.200 and sheaths on the penises of Egypt and Greece and 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.120 India and Japan were for uh, contraception, as a barrier 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.720 method or adornment. I guarantee they weren't probably thinking of 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:55.200 the woman's comfort, No, especially when all yeah, the Japanese 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.600 version of the penis sheath or condom was made of 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:03.000 horn or Tortoiseshell, they didn't care about the lady's pleasure. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.840 That's just mind boggling, my painful sound me. I don know, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:13.400 no kidding. Um, so we know people started using condoms 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.280 as a means to prevent pregnancy by the Roman era, 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.360 I think, of course. Yeah, anytime it's sexty times stuff. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.560 They were leading the way totally. You know. Yeah, anybody's 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.480 see Caligula can tell you that. Um. But then by 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.560 the time Shakespeare rolls around, condoms are pretty common. Yeah 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.760 if you count you know, wrapping linen around the penis 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.120 and tying it in a little bow with a ribbon 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.440 at the bottom. That's a condom back then, or stuffing 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.920 something into the urethra and using a draw string, um, ribbon. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.640 But it's another way that they did things. I should 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.320 post um photos of your facets of your face that 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.080 I'm taking like throughout this episode. Yeah. Um. And well 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.200 by the time Shakespeare's age, Uh, people are using condoms 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:06.840 pretty frequently. And one of the things they're using it, 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.960 probably the main thing they're using it for, is to 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.320 prevent syphilis, because just like in World War Two, sailors 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.720 to the New World came and contracted this new disease 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.000 that was found only in North America at the time. Um, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.480 and or I should say the Western hemisphere. Uh. And uh, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.120 they brought it back, and they figured out after a 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.880 little while like, oh wait a minute, I think it 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.959 has to do with sex. So they started using condoms 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.000 for a disease prevention through that. So this is a 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.920 pretty big point here, right, Like by the the age 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.680 of exploration, people understand that you can cover the penis 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.240 to prevent pregnancy and to prevent disease. Yeah, that's a 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.480 huge advancement in society. I guess totally. They were. They 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.080 were on it. They still like rolled in their own 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.320 feces and like she ever washed their hands or took 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.960 a bath, but they knew how to prevent syphilis with 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.040 a little something in the urethro the draw stream. That's right. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.000 By the mid seventeen hundreds, Tracy points out, they were 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.520 starting to use um condoms made from animal membranes, animal 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.000 guts basically, which if you they still have these today, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.120 if you use something called cheapskin, it is not cheap skin, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.280 but it is you know, cheap guts and testine lining. Yeah, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.200 and you can still buy those. I think they were 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.680 about what like one percent of the total sales these days. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.200 And they recommend those only if you are like a 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.600 monogamous couple. That's disease free and you're just using it 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.400 to like not get pregnant because it's very thin. Yeah, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.360 but it's not. It's it's porous, I believe enough for 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.679 pathogens to pass through. Yeah. Like you don't want to 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:47.960 use that if to prevent getting HIV? No, not smart? Um, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:52.280 Well you want to use is a rubber condom. That's right. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.360 Thank you Charles Goodyear, Yeah, who gave us not only 0:10:55.520 --> 0:11:02.120 rubber condoms, but um tires, uh, ebber hoses, rubber belts, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.760 pretty much anything that they made of rubber. You can 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.880 thank Charles Goodyear for it because of his process of vulcanization, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.520 which is he added um sulfur and lead oxide to 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:18.640 rubber from the Heavia Braziliens tree. Yeah, which they had 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.839 been tapping that tree for a while to get this, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.800 you know latex, this liquid rubber but um. Yeah. Volcanization 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.600 is where it became a thing that you could mask, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.920 you know, produced and it was safe and it was 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.960 uh stronger and uh more elastic, so you know, less 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.200 likely to break, but it was also thicker and rougher. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:41.880 You had to go to your doctor to be fitted 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.600 for one of these condoms. The good the good part 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.240 is you could wash and reuse it. It was basically 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.800 like your your your condom. You probably wrote your name 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.800 on it. I imagine if you got fitted though, in 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.200 the doctor's office, that would have to be with an erection, right, Yeah, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.680 you remember the little reflex hammer? Yeah, I do. What 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:04.680 does that to do this? That's how they did it, alright. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.080 So I guess back in the day, you would go 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.000 to your doctor and get an direction, and he would 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.320 fit you with a condom right made from vulcanized rubber, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:17.200 probably a bit of a uh investment at this time 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.800 as a man, so I doubt if a lot of 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.560 people were wearing him. Still, so again, imagine this is 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.800 what I imagine. It basically probably looked a lot like um, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.440 a the nipple of a baby bottle. Yeah, sure, you know. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.840 I'll bet you there's somebody who collects old time e condoms, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.160 some rich dude who has like an old time e 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.160 condom collection. Yeah, of course, Um, there's someone who collects 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.319 everything old you know. Uh. So by apparently people were 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.640 using this. This is eighty nine when charls could you 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.880 come with volcanization? So we're talking like the mid to 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.679 late nineteenth century. People are using these rubber condoms from 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.960 usible rubber condoms, and then everybody patted on the back 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:04.560 a guy named at Killian Killian's red beer inventor. Maybe no, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:10.040 it's possible. Um. He's more famously known, however, for um 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:15.000 creating a process of making condoms directly from latex, which 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.000 again is the sap of the rubber tree found in Brazil, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.800 West Africa, now Southeast Asia. Now UM. And he would 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.040 take these glass molds that where you could argue ballack 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:31.200 in nature, you know, uh, and that he would dip 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.200 it directly into latex. I think he did it with 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.960 his hand like that. I'm just just initially he did. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.360 So he would dip these these molds or um forms 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.800 right what they're called formers, just into latex and uh 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.040 he would then vulcanize that, and what you had was 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:59.560 a thinner, stronger, UM better I guess condom. Yeah, thinner 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.400 and longer, which is like that's what you want out 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.200 of a condom because you want to have the sensation intact, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.720 but you want to be safe and also had a 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.880 longer shelf life, and all of a sudden, latex was 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.960 the way to go. Yeah, No, it's all condoms worldwide 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.280 are latex. And that's a lot of condoms, as we'll see. Yeah, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.240 it's some numbers. Should we should we talk about nicknames 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:25.960 or not? This seems a little silly to me. I 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.240 thought it was silly too. Let's skip it then, Okay, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.920 maybe we should just drop them in occasionally. Okay, you know, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.680 so people know because it's in here, so it's legit, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.120 right instead of condoms, will say jimmy hat. Okay, further 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:44.680 chilly and came up with the latex Jimmy hat. Right. Uh, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.560 I guess if you don't know what a condom is 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.160 at all, we should go ahead and say it is 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.040 h a tube. It's a bag like tube that the 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.840 male penis fits in, open on one end, obviously, and 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.280 closed on the other. There's a little reservoir tip to 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:07.360 collect the semen um supposedly, and um, it's got a 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:12.160 little uh ring around the open end, a thin rim 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.040 that you uh that you roll down upon the penis. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.200 And that is a condom and it it basically it 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.440 blocks fluids from touching each other, which is how you 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.200 get pregnant and how you get disease. Keeps all those 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.000 fluids separate right the the form of this. The basic 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.600 concept of the condom hasn't changed much over the eons, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.080 but just these little advances and technology like making them latex. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.800 Late tex is not porous, yes, Um, the only way 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.880 something's going to get through is if there's some sort 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.920 of damage to it or something like that. Um, the 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.000 condoms the same what you just described as generally been 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.600 in use for hundreds or thousands of years. Right, yeah, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.120 it's a barrier method. Um. These days there are I 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.840 don't think we should talk about all those standards because 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.800 my eyes started to water a little bit when I 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.640 was eating all those with the length, the width, and 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.680 the thickness. No, no no, we should talk about that. But 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.840 later on all the standards when it was just like 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:12.200 really international codes. There are international codes governing how they're made. Well, 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.200 which is good. I'm not knocking that, sure, it's just 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.280 not exciting. Um. So yeah, these days, the length they 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.720 are at least six point three inches hundred and sixty millimeters. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.840 Well you did the conversion. Well I think you kind 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.440 of have to say an inches, don't you. But have 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.440 you noticed that how stuff works? Articles have gone metric? Yeah, 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.440 now it's metric. The meat one, the live ground meat 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:39.000 one both in in metric. All right, well, I don't 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.880 know what to say about that. What about the width? 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.360 What is the width of econom win lead flat fifty 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.040 two millimeters which I did not convert to inches. The 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:51.400 thickness is point zero seven millimeters. That's that's very thin, which, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.240 like we said, that's what you want out of a condom. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.520 You want something strong, but you don't want to ruin 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:02.560 the sexual experience by wearing a rubber glove of you 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.959 know what I'm saying, rubber glove to just and keep 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.919 the rubber gloves on your hands, that's right. They powder 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.639 these things with things like silica and corn starch and 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.760 magnesium carbonate to keep the latex from sticking to itself 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.000 in packaging, or they can come loobed up with either 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:26.600 regular lube or made from silicone, or spermocidal lube, which 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.320 this is good to know now that I'm married, but 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.800 I was shown it on this back then. Apparently the 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.880 spermocidal lubricants can make things worse, specifically non oxid all nine. Yeah. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.960 It says that they found that when used with a condom, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.679 it doesn't really do much to kill sperm, and even worse, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.360 it can cause vaginal irritation, which can lead to easier 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.640 disease transmission. Yeah, so that's apparently not a good thing 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.439 to use non oxid all nine on your condoms. Very 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.880 good to know. And that's not knocking in nine because 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.280 think that's what's also you used outside of a condom, right, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.639 as as supermocidal. Right, so it's more affective there, I guess. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:14.000 How about manufacturing a condom, chuck it all. It all starts, um, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:19.240 either in the forests of Brazil, Southeast Asia, or West Africa, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.439 which is where you'll find the rubber tree, which is 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.239 still to this date where latex comes from, unless it's 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.600 synthetic latex of course. But let's say you're you're going 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.679 the natural route, and um, you go to Brazil and 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.720 get you some SAP, which again sap from uh latex 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.560 or rubber tree is latex. Okay, so you get that, 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.439 you take it back to your factory, right, that's right. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.960 Maybe in Brazil, maybe in Thailand, who knows, is that 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.800 what they make these? Okay? I think they make them 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.040 pretty close to the rubber plantations. All the pictures in 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.639 this article are in like Thailand or Brazil or whatever. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.080 And that's where you're gonna find rubber trees. Um, well 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.639 it doesn't only pane latex. You're gonna probably have some 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:06.000 other ingredients in your bucket there of of sap, well, yeah, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:10.360 you added along the way. Yeah, antifungal and antibacterial compounds. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.720 You want to keep the things clean. Zincos side, which 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:19.960 is accelerates the vulcanization process. Uh, stabilizers like potassium laurate, UM, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.960 sulfur maybe which is another vulcanizing agent, ammonia antiquagulant. I 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.679 didn't know that. Yeah, it keeps things from coagulating really, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.760 and uh, other pigments and preservatives too, you know, because 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:38.320 you wanted to have that lovely fleshy look in strawberry flavoring. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.639 Well we'll get to that too. Um. So these add 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.800 to the shelf life. Um. They make it harder to 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:50.199 break down because rubbers biodegradable naturally, and you don't want 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:51.800 it to break down. That's what happened the old day's 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.040 when the easies lubes, the natural rubber would just break down. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.240 Your kind of wasn't worth much for long, right, Um 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.400 and Tracy points that this is a good reason why 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.600 you never want to throw a condom used or otherwise 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.280 in a toilet. That's not how you throw a condom away, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.640 because it doesn't break down. It's just gonna gum things up. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.879 It's gonna catch all the hair and toilet paper and 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.720 all that stuff and grow bigger and bigger and just 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.480 basically become this big giant condom damn in your sewer pipe. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.760 That's right. So what do you do? Uh? You um 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.560 wrap it in tissue paper. She suggests wrap that tissue 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.840 paper in foil, put the foil in a five millimeter 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.520 thick flat garbage bag, and bury it in your yard. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.080 That's how you properly dispose of a used condom. That's 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.600 not true, but she does recommend the tissue and the 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.600 waste basket. Yeah, just not the toilet, or if you're 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.719 in New York City, just on the street or sidewalk, 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.560 just fine, in the back of your cab. Have you 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.520 ever noticed all the condoms one, there's a lot of 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.600 them out there. It's just it's a thing. It's definitely 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.080 a thing. If you live in New York you know 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.399 about it, or you point the tiles or something. I 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.480 just don't get it, Like, are these people having sex 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.040 in the street? Throw them out the apartment. Maybe maybe 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:09.240 that's what they're doing. That's gross, I know. Could you 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.240 imagine walking down the sidewalk after a nice dinner. Alright, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.399 So you've got the liquid latex goes in the vats, 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.800 and then you've got the formers, which have been around 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.240 for a while, and they are glass or ceramic molds 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.840 of a penis, and they're on a conveyor belt. Dip 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:30.080 it into the bat, get it, turn it and circle 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.920 to get a nice even coating and dry it out, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.359 and then maybe a second or third dip to make 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.639 sure it's sticking off right, and then it's into the 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:42.760 tunnel oven for vulcanization. It has all of those, um, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.359 those the zinc oxide and the sulfur in it to 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.240 help it vulcanize, so when it's exposed to heat, it 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.720 becomes stronger, that's right, right, Um. And then after that 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.399 I found this a little unsettling, Yeah, because I just 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.800 always thought of tondos it's like untouched. It's like a 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.280 brand new newspaper, like you could deliver a baby with it, 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:03.840 you know. Um. But apparently after vulcanizing, the condoms are 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:09.960 taken off of the formers, right, Um, and they are washed. Yeah, 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.280 you're so the condom you're you're you're using has been 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.920 washed before. I just to find it odd. I guess 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:18.000 probably mechanically washed, right, Yeah, it says a washing machine 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.800 um and invest to remove odor, pathogens and allergen. So 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.320 it's good that they're doing this. But I agree with you. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.000 I kind of thought it was just like you know, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.480 it was made and packaged immediately and then it goes 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.199 on your body, right exactly, Not quite, so you you 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.560 wash it. And then there's quality testing, which is a 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.080 lot of pretty cool stuff. There's some there's some cool 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.640 quality tests. If you ask me, well, let's get into it, then, well, 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:50.159 there's a standard called zipping, popping, rolling, and other condom testing. Yeah, 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:52.840 what you're testing for is you want to prevent three 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:58.080 things that make a condom uh ineffective. Breaking the condom 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:02.480 not good, slipping off definitely not good. In leaking. None 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.639 of these are good because they are uh you know, 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:08.760 they're not preventing the one thing or two things that 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.399 you're trying to do, which is either pregnancy or some 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:17.640 sort of socially transmitted infection. Not you notice that she's 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.440 not STD anymore. It's s t I. I didn't know that. 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.640 When did that happen? Maybe she just made the change herself, 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:29.160 you think, No, I think I think it's I don't know, 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:33.120 because maybe disease doesn't quite scientifically capture all. I'm sure 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:35.440 that's so. Yeah, I don't know when that happened, but 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:39.520 I'll bet it is fairly recent. Um. So, one of 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:43.200 the two tests that they're really looking at is you 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:44.560 don't want it to break and you don't want it 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:49.000