Was having a conversation with someone at work yesterday at the growing incidence of 'Oops!' among couples. For those practicing abstinence (That includes regular readers of my blog like the pope, the dalai lama and you)
Quite a few of my friends are married or at least committed. And (so far) the incidence of the oops among married couples is rather high.... Figures I pulled out of my ass (I am after all an Analyst) show that this could be as high as 80%.
A fictitious survey conducted by a company whose name I can't think up of shows that most couples who have experienced an Oops are shocked. Typical responses to the phone survey were:
'Dude! How did this happen? We both were using stuff...'
'I finally got to do it after 6 weeks, and this happens!!!'
'Sure I would love to share explicit details of my sex life with strangers who call up...It was a dark and stormy night..'
'I was using double protection, yet my guys broke through! I rock!'
'Please check the number you have dialed. Kripya aapka dial kiya number check kariye'
There are two major reasons why Oops happens.
1. Its a frame-up: Let me first and foremost state that this theory might offend women. So if you are one, skip to the next reason instead of reading this and getting pissed of at me.
This is also known as 'Getting pregnant on the sly'. On second thoughts, I am not going to explain this one. If you don't already know this one, you are a dolt and should be punished for polluting the future generations with your gene.
2. Read the box moron: As the box clearly mention, most birth control methods are 98% effective at most (85% typically).
Even though most of us know this, we are astounded that it still happened. We consider 2% to be such a minuscule figure we equate it closer to Zero.
Well, The next time you see about results for the IIT JEE, read the article. I am linking you to the 2005 results article. (From birth control to IIT? What the frick am I talking about?). Bear with me just for a few more line. You have come this far.
There are 3000 seats for IITs every year. And 180,000 tried to get through in 2005. A success rate of 1%? (My math is poor)
If I can flip the statistic of 98% effectiveness of a condom around, we can assume that 2% of the dudes might make it through the latex wall each time.
The average sperm count is about 40 million. And even if only ONE gets through....But 2% (about 800,000) of them get through each time.
Think about this next time around....
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