Daniel_

Making this claim is irresponsible and untrue (unless you have some cold hard data - and not anecdotal) to back it up; can you show me the Consumer Reports data?

All condoms that are FDA or CE approved are required by national and international laws in the USA, UK and EU to be compliant with international standards such as the WHO condom standard and ISO 4074.

The old saw that the ones that are given away are deliberately of a lower standard is totally bollocks - the ones that go out in bulk are the same as the ones sold at retail, other than the packaging.

Independent research (see FHI - index Chapter three) shows that condom failure is due to user compliance in most cases. In short, the sort of people who get given free ones are often the sort of people who don't use them properly (lack of education and reliance on handouts often go together, and failure to follow the instructions will often correlate with lack of education) - most failures happen to people who have had failures before.

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