{"id":4185,"date":"2013-04-02T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:50:14","slug":"bill-gates-bankrolling-development-of-next-generation-condom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/02\/bill-gates-bankrolling-development-of-next-generation-condom\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Daddy Gates Bankrolling Development of Next-generation Condom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/brief-history-condom-tortoise-shells-bill-gates-1153107\" target=\"_blank\">from International Business Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>A Brief History Of The Condom, From Tortoise Shells To Bill Gates<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/reporters\/roxanne-palmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Roxanne Palmer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/condoms\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image courtesy of New Scientist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/galleries\/condoms\/00610668404.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates has already put some of his money\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/one-mans-waste-anothers-golden-opportunity-gates-foundation-awards-next-gen-toilet-designers-748800\" target=\"_blank\">toward building a better toilet<\/a>, and now he\u2019s turning his attention to another kind of bodily function. The Microsoft billionaire is putting up money through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in hopes of spurring enterprising inventors to make a better condom.<\/p>\n<p>Though condoms are cheap to make and fairly reliable both for contraception and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, many men do not use them due to a perceived trade-off between protection and pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it possible to develop a product without this stigma, or better, one that is felt to enhance pleasure?\u201d the Gates-backed organization Grand Challenges asks. \u201cIf so, would such a product lead to substantial benefits for global health, both in terms of reducing the incidence of unplanned pregnancies and in prevention of infection with HIV or other STIs?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until May 7, Grand Challenges\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandchallenges.org\/Explorations\/Topics\/Pages\/NextGenerationCondomRound11.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">is accepting proposals for next-generation condoms<\/a>. For winners of an initial $100,000 grant, there\u2019s the possibility for an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandchallenges.org\/about\/Pages\/Overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">additional $1 million in funding later on.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCondoms have been in use for about 400 years yet they have undergone very little technological improvement in the past 50 years,\u201d Grand Challenges says.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the history of the condom may go back even further than four centuries.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/brief-history-condom-tortoise-shells-bill-gates-1153107\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at IBT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from International Business Times A Brief History Of The Condom, From Tortoise Shells To Bill Gates By\u00a0Roxanne Palmer Bill Gates has already put some of his money\u00a0toward building a better toilet, and now he\u2019s turning his attention to another kind of bodily function. The Microsoft billionaire is putting up money through the Bill and Melinda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}