Condoms: S/D, RFI

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Are there any reliable ones that truly allow the wearer some degree of sensation?

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 30 December 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stay away from I Can't Believe They're Not Prophylactics!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Condoms for cock farmers.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 30 December 2002 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Reliable" depends on the vigorousness and lubrication of the act.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 30 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sterling, true, but I'm trying to only include bands that have been given the thumbs up by a testing organization of some sort (e.g., Consumer Reports, which I have already checked).

I also maybe should have added "for the circumcised wearer," since that apparently makes a difference.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 30 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

Kimono micro thin seem to do the trick (while meeting FDA and international standards, receiving Consumer Reports approval, etc.).

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can I just say a thread entitled "Condoms: Search and Destroy" is somehow disturbing?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, this is a highly personal question...

What I mean is that it depends on the specific person. In general, it seems like guys prefer the lambskin ones, but since they are not very safe you have to put a latex one over this. The latex one that goes over it should be the woman's (or the other guy's) preference...which basically means whichever one does not contain a chemical that gives her/(the other 'him') an irritation in addition to the irritation of the latex itself.

This seems the most practical solution.

So, no matter what other people tell you, it's still trial and error.

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, 13 February 2003 05:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm with BurmaKitty on this one - I hate the damn things - make me itch and all. But I'm usually willing to pay that price. However, it is a matter of personal preference. I've never seen much use in the "ribbed" ones - the sensation isn't noticably different - but be careful of the type of lubrication, especially if oral sex may follow. (YETCH!) (Er, YETCH about the taste of non-oxynol 9, not about oral sex, that is.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 13 February 2003 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

" (Er, YETCH about the taste of non-oxynol 9, not about oral sex, that is.) "
-- I'm Passing Open Windows (mslaura), February 12th, 2003.

Ditto, and thanks for clearing that up Ms Laura! We wouldn't want any confusion.

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

*grin* Always wanna make things clear - you know - keep the reputation pristine and all that.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't girls dislike condoms as much as chaps do? I hate 'em. I have never, ever found a brand that doesn't have some icky lubricant that makes me feel *funny* afterwards.

Isn't there some other way?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

femidoms. remember them?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

And the lubricant issue is solved *how*?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

you just have to work at it.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Working at it involves more squeaking than I am willing to deal with.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

obvious solution: WD-40.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

THINK OF THE SHEETS.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

obvious solution: do it in the garage.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't have one. Can I use your?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

my? I don't have one either : /

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't say it.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh....................

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

LAMBSKIN CONDOMS!?

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

They're gonna be nothing but *scratchy*.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I searched all over the interweb once looking for latex-free, oversize condoms - I found them, the customer responses were great, they really were big and didn't stink or cause alergy problems and really were useful for avoidance of disease and babies, so I ordered and got back an e-mail - "we got your order, they're back-ordered TWO YEARS."

― Ivor Biggun, Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

so, to be sensible we'll have to get all out physical fulfillment from holding hands. I would rather die.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.allcondoms.com/lifestyl.htm

These are the best (very very thin, no irritation etc etc) I could find (in the UK anyway) - got them in my local Asda of all places!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do they come in whisky flavour?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

McCondom [not burger flavour].

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or bugger flavoured.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whisky flavoured condoms are foul - don't ask me how I know, I just do.
Mint ones, however, are very, erm, refreshing...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pickled onion is best.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ouch. Vinegar, that's gotta hurt....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tart.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I do not understand the appeal of these flavoured condoms at the point of sale; in a man's bogs, the machine with a lucky dip has yer bog standard (arf) ones and then another which has Krazy Flavas. I was trying to imagine the mindset of the purchaser - 'ooh, I hope I get curry flavour, as she will love that' then bounding over like an excited puppy dog to hsi object of affection and saying 'I've got a treat for you!'. Maybe it's just me though.

Another point - do ribbed condoms do anything? I've always been suspicious as they used to be advertised by durex with a Ferrari on the front which said far more about the buyer than the product itself I thought.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ribbed are warmer, just like with jumpers.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ribbed condoms - never noticed much difference to be honest.
Flavoured condoms - the only ones worth purchasing are mint ones, (laydeez - shag with one of them and you get all tingly down below, bizarre but pleasurable in small doses)
I once got Kangaroo flavoured condoms form one of those lucky dip machines - "for your billabonk" Oh how we larfed...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are Koala ones too:

'EATS SHOOTS ROOTS AND LEAVES'

Tee hee.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shouldn't that be 'EATS ROOTS SHOOTS AND LEAVES'? Unless it's a Ralph Halpern 5-times-a night-kinda-Koala.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fuck.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't understand why they can't make some of these extra thin ones without lubricant and spermicide. The Kimonos are at least only lightly lubricated, less yukky than, say, the lubricant on Trojans.

Trayce, I wasn't trying to be disturbing, but rather desperate for some advice.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 February 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it really the nonoxynol-9 that leads to that nasty flavor? There are nonnonoxynol-9 lubes out there -- many are allergic to it.

I'm glad to hear that mint condoms have the same tingly effect that chewing mint lifesavers before going down on someone does.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 13 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

has anyone ever bought any over the internet?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 February 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

listen, i tell you what, those lambskin ones are a bit disgusting. put a piece of meat on yr dick. No thanks. With condom definietly worse than without but sometimes feeling less can actually be a good thing. Plus they can reduce the mess a bit...

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 13 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

any more opinions on condoms?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

amateurist, you old dog you.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i've always bought the same ones, trojans, because they're the most famous and i somehow reluctant to make a big deal about the brand of condom i use. but if there are any recommendations.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link

don't try "the female condom"

― Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link

why?? (which boredoms did you get also)

― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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trojans are so thick and rubbery, i hate them. they feel like galoshes

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

That's why MESH yo!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd imagine a mesh condom wouldn't be entirely effective

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Shiek used to be GREAT! I don't think they're around anymore. I stick with the Trojan blues because I realized I don't need all that sensation. Less sensation seems to cause my dick to get harder, as if my penis is stretching for sensation like a cat stretches up the kitchen cabinets for food. I get a harder dick and I last longer with more latex between me and my woman.

― Triple Ho, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

trojans are so thick and rubbery, i hate them. they feel like galoshes

OTM. trojan = penis gumshoes.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

sheik = durex = pretty good

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Durex didn't seem all that thin when I tried them. I've tried Durex by the 12 pack 3 or 4 times. They suck. Kimono's are thinner, if you're going for thinness, which I ain't, and they don't have that shitty lube or whatever that Durex does. Kimono's are probably best for all concerned here. Except me. I prefer thicker latex, as I say.

― Triple Ho, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha, ha! Want to read some bad editing?

lookie from here: http://www.birthcontrol.com/product_info.php?products_id=82&osCsid=07e884ead39a53519e579f463ea4f728

http://www.birthcontrol.com/images/bc/22-unique-lg.jpg

BULLET POINT #9: Proved that anything as small as a sperm or HIV can pass through this material.

Great, I'll buy a million.

Assuming that is a type-o, perhaps this is a brand to try for all you thin-nuts.

― Triple Ho, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Proved that anything as small as a sperm or HIV can pass through this material.

Trojan would be a good name for this.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean, if your greek friend buys you a pack as a present - beware.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

1. fucking
2. not fucking
3. fucking w condom.

This is mentalism. Try:

1. fucking
2. fucking with condom
...
...
...
784376. not fucking

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry essnetially OTM, though there might be a few other choice bedroom antics between 1 and 2 there.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Back that up a bit... there are condoms called "warm and cuddly feelings"? Haha yes, but I seriously want to know what condom names are like this. I want to tote some of them around so bad now.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"top of the list and reasonably priced was Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex."

does "extra sensitive" mean "super thin and might break"? if not maybe i'll try these.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

extra sensative means "extra small penis"

― LSD, called the aristocrat (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

you're thinking of "ex machina"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Can someone tell me what the difference between regular Trojans and Trojan-ENZ is? I didn't feel like inspecting the packages while at the store.

― craggy jones, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"trojan-enz" are for sleeping w/ new zealanders?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't seen anything mentioned about Beyond-7's here, so I'll throw my props out for those.

― cws (cws), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

they were totally tested for breakage and reliability. They were not tested for um level of goodfeelin' or whatever. I'm not sure that can be effectively measured in a lab over a large sample.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"ok, just gives me a thumbs up if you're feelin' good! ok.... gotcha. ok, lucy, take that down."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Another point - do ribbed condoms do anything?

Yes, but nothing good. Total pain from begining to end. I was drunk and it still hurt. I was drunk and this was years ago and I still remember the horror.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

don't trojan enz have the little semen-receptacle things at the tip?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"reservoir tips"

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

well i bought the the regular trojans, and those have res tips. don't all condoms?? or are there some cheap ones where the splooge is forced out the sides???

― craggy jones, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't had to use any of the pack I bought (thank you pills and tests), but I think I should. I could stand to lose a lil feeling, if you get my drift.

― craggy jones, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

did i miss the "hand holding" and "kissing" threads amateurist surely revived before this one?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

From the Unique site mentioned above.

created exclusively for masculine use

Not for the effete emo types then.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link

bwahaha @ yanc3y!!!

sorry for the TMI but MAXX (by kimono) are great.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I am terrified about the mostly-theoretical nature of my condom knowledge. I blame the contraceptive pill and having had no sex ed at school.

This thread is useful. (helpful?)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I wave the flag for Gold Circle Coins.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

they were totally tested for breakage and reliability. They were not tested for um level of goodfeelin' or whatever. I'm not sure that can be effectively measured in a lab over a large sample.
-- teeny (teen...), January 4th, 2005 9:20 PM. (teeny) (link)

a large sample

lol

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

SO much tmi on this thread

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I wave the flag for Gold Circle Coins

"Condom of champions" according to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, iirc.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

here are a few activities, in my order of preference:
1. fucking
2. not fucking
3. fucking w condom.

and 54687687643541354. Not fucking with condom.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

posh wanks are sometimes quite nice though

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone else tried kimono brand? i liked those when i used them. granted, i can only tolerate certain kinds b/c they irritate my body. i usually opt for other methods of bc.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/24/53911657_481dcfa45b.jpg

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

French condoms appear, at first blush, to be sized rather smaller than their new world counterparts.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

tracer lay off, this isn't freep

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I report; you decide.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

The Durex ultra-sensitive lubricated are pretty good. The Maxx ones are alright, too. Not into Trojans at all. Even the name Trojan is kind of unsettling. The trojan horse being the condom, and the guys inside being the penis. Sounds kind of... rapey or something.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link

haha nathalie
youve reminded me of that bizarre adina howard answer record by deep threat ft lil flip, it goes

TROJANS wit my boxers on
TROJANS wit my boxers on
TROJANS wit my boxers on
You got yo t-shirt and yo panties
I got Trojans wit my boxers on

i wonder how long ago he put it on, right before he left the house? or did he put it on in the morning after a shower??

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

his dick was just sticking thru his boxers

― 3333333, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

were her panties crotchless then??

― minna (minna), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe they were pulled to the side

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, what is this love for Durex upthread? I had to break down and actually start PAYING for condoms because all the health department would give me for like a year was really awful Durex.

― emilys. (emilys.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link

DUD

http://www.sampsonstore.com/shop/sh88/mmobj/4970520231849-notouch-10-180x240.jpg

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

six years pass...

the lost kingdom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlWjxQjV21k&feature=relmfu

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 June 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link

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