My mother once told me the following story, which may or may not be true:
During the Great Depression, her grandparents were dirt-poor farmers who couldn’t afford to have any more kids, but also couldn’t afford to buy condoms. (In addition to which they lived in Amish country in Indiana, which seems like a place that wouldn’t have a lot of condoms for sale in the first place.) So they’d use the single condom in their possession, and then my great-grandma would wash it out and hang on the laundry line to dry.
I’m an old guy. Whenever I hear about the kinds of things people are doing these days with greater frequency than I ever could have imagined, I think that I was born waaaaaaay too early. And then, I read a thread like this, where many of the trials, tribulations and grief that goes with using rubbers (what they used to be called) are detailed, and I think, Man, am I glad I was born when I was. Sure, we knew that there were STD’s, (almost all of them treatable), but if you knew your partner, and she was on the pill, or was using a diaphragm, you could have that most wondrous of all wonderful things, what is called unprotected sex. And I’m also speaking for many women, who also enjoyed the sensations connected with that.
Ok, carry on. (as it were)
“Natural” condoms are made from a layer of a sheep’s intestine, exactly the same material used as “natural” casings for sausages. There’s no reservoir tip, and the tip has a little knot to seal it. Before today’s thin latex condoms, natural condoms were preferred by some for the increased sensation and the capacity for warmth to pass through it. Natural condoms will not let sperm cells out, but Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can get through.
With today’s very thin latex condoms, there’s plenty of sensation, and the old line about showering in a raincoat is not so appropriate.
So a kid goes to buy a box of condoms and the clerk says, “That’ll be $8.98 plus tax” and the kid says, “Tacks! I thought they stayed on by themselves!”
Then the joke about what’s the difference between the fifties and today? today you go into a drugstore and go "I’D LIKE SOME CONDOMS and some cigarettes."
Another way to mis-use that I don’t think I saw mentioned is attempting to put it on backwards and then doing it the other way. That is, you try to put it on, realize it won’t roll down, so you flip it over and put it on correctly. You know run the risk of sperm (or viruses) being on the outside of the condom. Any time I’ve done that, I always toss it and grab a new one.
It may be bull that regular condoms won’t accommodate a large member (they do stretch), but it’s no joke that they won’t work well—in terms comfort, staying hard—if they’re too small. That’s no marketing ploy. Plus, some of the regular ones are fine for girth, but they aren’t long enough to stay put.
And the brand does matter. Some don’t stretch in width nearly as much as others. If sort of doesn’t matter if it hits over your head (the one north of your neck) if it squeezes your cock so much that there’s no sensation from intercourse.
You bumped a *year-old *thread to say something that other people have already said? Really? (Or was there some spam that got deleted before your post?)
