# Condom preferences
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 8, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946 "2010-07-08T11:34:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/1 "2010-07-08T11:34:31Z")
Do you have a preference for a particular brand or type of condom?
Is thin that much better for sensation and how much does it increase the chance of breaking? Are condoms with enlarged heads better?
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/2 "2010-07-08T11:58:45Z")
I would have to say my preference is none. 🙂 OK I really like the super-thin Trojan ones. They seem the least like fucking a rubber glove. I’ve tried other alleged thin brands, they don’t seem to measure up.
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### Author:  [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/3 "2010-07-08T12:18:15Z")
I like free ones. There is always a flow of free condoms at clubs either one brand promoting theirs or safer sex activists handing them out. I like simple better. Ribbed, super thin, special shape are all things that I can do without.
My preference tends to be anything other then Trojan. Their brand name sells far more product then their quality justifies, the smell alone is a turn off for me.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/4 "2010-07-08T12:41:11Z")
Back in the early days of our marriage, my wife and I tried ever brand and model out there. We both preferred Durex Ultra over every other kind. All of the Trojan models, even the thin ones, provided no sensation. I’m happy to say our condom days are over.
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### Author:  [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/5 "2010-07-08T20:35:34Z")
When I used them, Durex Ultra. I’ll second an earlier comment, the odor of a Trojan condom is one of the biggest mood kills ever.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/6 "2010-07-08T21:30:20Z")
F here. I finally figured out I can’t stand the ones with spermicidal lubricant. They don’t irritate me, per se, so it took me a while, but they leave me … I dunno. But not happy, that’s for sure, which sort of defeats the purpose.
Also, I’m a girl and I don’t even like 'em, so I can’t imagine how much they must bug some of you guys.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/7 "2010-07-08T22:16:57Z")
I have to say none as well. That’s really the beauty of having a regular partner with the Pill (which I had for some time but sadly, not at the moment).
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/8 "2010-07-09T00:03:34Z")
A third for the Durex Ultra. Trojans turn dicks into balloon animals.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/9 "2010-07-09T00:06:23Z")
Back when we were using them, I personally never minded condoms, except that the spermicidal lubricant was irritating, so we avoided those. MrWhatsit was fond of a Swedish brand called Okiedos.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/10 "2010-07-09T17:43:38Z")
Another vote for, “If they’re necessary, for the love of god pick some without spermicidal lubricant.” IIRC, it doesn’t do a damned thing to lower pregnancy risks, and it \*can \*cause irritation.
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/11 "2010-07-09T18:03:40Z")
I like the kind that blow up into funny shapes.
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### Author:  [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/12 "2010-07-09T19:09:02Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#):
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> A third for the Durex Ultra. Trojans turn dicks into balloon animals.
Fourthed. No smell, feels a lot less like slipping into a garden hose and pretty good sensitivity.
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### Author:  [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/13 "2010-07-09T20:50:47Z")
We use 'em when I’m on the rag. Trojan Magnum thin. Regular Magnums left my poor SO with a wicked rash. Oddly enough, the lube on the thin versions is different - called “ultra smooth”.
ETA: We barely noticed the thickness difference between regular Magnum and thin Magnum. Thins are more expensive, so if you don’t have skin issues, go with the regular ones.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/14 "2010-07-09T21:23:15Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#):
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> We use 'em when I’m on the rag.
Mind if I ask why? Can’t be for birth control or STD prevention if you only use 'em when you’re bleeding, and I’m having a hard time seeing it being related to squick factor, since all it would do is prevent menstrual blood from coming into direct contact with the penis itself.
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### Author:  [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/15 "2010-07-09T21:45:25Z")
Eh, I guess it’s an squick factor on both ends. It’s less slippery as well, than without the condom.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/16 "2010-07-09T22:03:49Z")
Anything but Trojan, as they’re the only ones I’ve had break, repeatedly. And really that’s all I care about, not having a penis and all. It’s his choice. And sometimes I think Ribbed For Her Pleasure is more of a gesture than something that will show results in the bedroom (especially considering the layout of most vaginas – you’d have to be pulling out with every thrust to even feel some of those bumps).
Here’s an interesting [Consumer Reports](http://sqzm14.ust.hk/condom-ratings-95.html)piece testing different condoms’ burst rate (though it’s from 1995).
I know quite a few people who swear by [Crown condoms](http://www.condomdepot.com/product/detail.cfm/nid/183/pid/2105).
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/17 "2010-07-10T06:26:43Z")
When I had a steady GF, err, I mean when I last had sex, I liked the light-green Trojans. I think they were the Twisted Sister brand, or something like that. The others either gave low sensitivity or had some other problem. Maybe it was all in my head.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/18 "2010-07-11T22:51:09Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> The others either gave low sensitivity or had some other problem. Maybe it was all in my head.
I’ll say! Wah wahhhh.
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/19 "2010-07-11T22:57:39Z")
Man, I read that as “green-light” Trojans the first time. I bet you liked 'em.
Anyway, Kimonos are all right, as these things go.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-preferences/545946/20 "2010-07-11T23:09:22Z")
A quick dig in the drawer beside my bed tells me it’s Durex Pleasuremax. Apparently.
IIRC it was the kind I was most likely to get on before my fumbling went too far and killed the mood :rolleyes:
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