Originally Posted by ThunderSS
This is the only connection between Kinsey and theyfit that I could find.
http://www.indiana.edu/~shrwg/frame…us&ct=clnk&cd=6
Did anyone bother to follow this link?
As usually happens when the results of a study are reported by someone not directly involved (the Condomania lady), things get reported inaccurately.
This study was conducted in 2004 or early 2005 by Indiana University graduate students, a few members of their faculty, and members of other groups related to the subject of the study. Dr. Stephanie Sanders was the representative from the Kinsey Institute. The Kinsey Institute did not conduct the research and there are no reports of it on their web site. A single person from the Institute participated. It was not a “TheyFit/Kinsey” study.
The people who conducted it are from the Sexual Health Research Working Group (SHRWG) at Indiana University. The results have been reported at several sexual research meetings already, primarily by Dr. Michael Reece, who is the director of the SHRWG. He is next scheduled to speak on the results of the study at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research to be held in Amsterdam 12-15 July 2006. The meeting is open only to credentialed sex researchers as far as I can tell.
The study was apparently conducted via the Internet. There are no online reports that I could find and the methods of the study are not on the SHRWG web site. The Condomania site also has nothing about this study. How penises were measured, or even if they were, is not actually known. Very likely the participants used the measuring aid provided by Condomania on their site.
Here is the entire text from the SHRWG site:
The Condom Fit and Feel Study
This study involves an experimental assessment of the world’s first “sized to fit” condom, the TheyFitTM condom. Using an experimental cross over design, men used a standard-sized and “fitted” condom during their sexual interactions over a period of 30 days. On a daily basis, men completed an Internet-based daily diary to provide data about their sexual interactions and to complete in-depth measures related to their use of the study condoms.
Over 1,800 men participated in the study, completed close to 30,000 sexual diaries, and provided data on approximately 10,000 incidents of condom use. Analyses are currently underway and preliminary findings are offering some new and important insights into issues related to men’s perceptions and use of condoms. Data from this study will be presented at conferences scheduled for 2005 and the study team is currently working on a number of manuscripts.
The investigators of this study were Michael Reece and Debby Herbenick of SHRWG, and the study team included Dr. Patrick Monahan (Division of Biostatistics, IU School of Medicine), Dr. Stephanie Sanders (The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction) and Dr. William Yarber (Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention).
If anyone is interested in pursuing this and wishes to contact Dr. Reece at the SHRWG, his personal web page is: http://www.indiana.edu/~aphealth/faculty/reece_more.html . Contact information is provided there. Alternately, you could e-mail Condomania and ask about the study results: service@condomania.com.