Talk:Durex

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Is the word durex really classed as a portmanteau? Isn't it an acronym? 86.10.86.139 15:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Durex survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Durex -- Wile E. Heresiarch 03:59, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Question about manufacturing volume

"Durex condoms represent around one quarter of the global market for prophylactic sheathes, manufacturing around one trillion units per year in 17 factories worldwide"

That number sounds high to me. A total of four trillion condoms a year is more than a thousand for each male, of any age. Should that be "around one billion" (but that sounds far too low)? Molinari 04:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion re: manufacturing volume

If there are six billion people (average) in the world, three billion of them must be male. So actually, a quarter of three billion is more than four trillion. Also, all the condoms that are produced and put to market may not all be sold.

How is a quarter of 3 billion more than 4 trillion? A trillion is one thousand times a billion. So indeed, if one trillion condoms a year are a quarter of the entire global condom production, that would mean that more than one thousand condoms are produced for every single male in the entire world. That seems to be quite a lot. And initially, the article said "one billion" until this anonymous edit:

09:07, 6 February 2006 66.243.238.209

Now I have changed it back. Of course, if Durex production is one billion condoms a year that yields an overall production of 4 billions condoms, or 1,3 condoms for a male per year, which seems to be very small, but I guess it could be realistic, since condom use is much wider spread in the developed world than in the rest of the world. Blur4760 21:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Bearing in mind that a quarter of those males would be children or otherwise not sexually active, and the fact that of course not all sexual encounters involve condoms, 4bn seem fairly believable. Still, a source would be nice. FiggyBee 15:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

1.3 condoms per male is small? Why? Sources are tech, I hear. 72.144.71.193 05:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)