# So, Anyone Want to be a Condom Tester? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810 "2007-07-07T03:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/1 "2007-07-07T03:41:32Z")
[Plenty of openings (no pun intended).](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22024295-13762,00.html) > [@](#): > > AN Australian manufacturer has called for applications for what it claims could be the world’s best job – condom tester. > > Durex marketing manager Sam White said any Australian over the age of 18 could apply for one of 200 positions as a condom tester. > > The position is not paid, but successful applicants will receive a free $60 selection of Durex products and will be required to provide the company with honest feedback about the products’ performance. 😕 They want you to do _hard_ work, but they’re _not_ going to pay you? Man, what a ripoff! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/2 "2007-07-07T03:51:51Z")
If you’re testing the product’s performance, does that mean that it has a higher likelihood that it could break? Cause then you should get hazard pay as well. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/3 "2007-07-07T05:56:27Z")
Does Durex provide the “testing apparatus,” as it were? Cause if so then I’ll totally do it and not care about the lack of payment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/4 "2007-07-07T06:12:35Z")
Is it only guys or can girls volunteer, too? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/5 "2007-07-07T10:41:44Z")
I’m with **Heffalump and Roo** : If you’re being asked to play what appears to be alpha (or maybe beta) tester for a new line of birth control devices… I think it’s only fair to find out what compensation one might recieve for any failures of the devices. Why yes, I often am a “The glass is hall-empty, sort.” Why do you ask? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/6 "2007-07-07T11:57:05Z")
Hmm… I wonder if ‘I need you to assist me in some testing’ makes for a good pickup line? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-want-to-be-a-condom-tester/410810/7 "2007-07-07T16:34:32Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Does Durex provide the “testing apparatus,” as it were? Cause if so then I’ll totally do it and not care about the lack of payment. 😃 [/QUOTE] If they do provide testing apparatus as you so delicately phrase it 😃 then you’ll have to get in line, a very looooong line Hell, I’ll even pay Durex if they pick me