# "MAGNUM" sized condoms... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 12, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882 "2001-11-12T05:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/21 "2001-11-12T16:37:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mersavets \* > I’m thinking Chekmate is only a brand of condoms here in Australia because nobody seems to have remarked on it yet. Or is it that it’s just so obvious that everyone feels it’s beneath remarking upon?n It would seem it’s just us. I’ve always thought that **zugswang** would be a better name. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/22 "2001-11-12T17:03:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chekmate \* > \*\*Give me some general measurements here? I am about 5.5" circumfrence, and almost 8" long. What’re your professional opinions? \*\* My professional opinion is that you should go to a Dopefest. I think you’ll get a lot of attention from the ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/23 "2001-11-12T17:29:44Z")
\*Originally posted by Chekmate \* > [@](#): > > Give me some general measurements here? I am about 5.5" circumfrence, and almost 8" long. What’re your professional opinions? I’m not a professional, but I think you’d like a larger size. The larger ones seem to stretch to fit anything in the 8"-10" range…anything much over that and you’re back into the old-lady’s-knee-highs problem. (Not to mention that if you show something that huge to ME, I’ll get a stick and hold its head down, then look for a hoe to chop it off with. A snake, eeek!) If your girlfriend is in the bed asking what you’re doing fiddling with the stupid thing, get her to put it on! Much more fun for both parties. And yeah, a standard condom will not only fit over your arm, it’ll fit your foot, and if you put it over your head (get two people to stretch it, takes some patience) covering your nose but NOT your mouth, you can exhale through your nose and turn it into a groovy Marge Simpson-esque beehive, complete with receptacle tip. Much fun at parties. But I’ve never yet met a guy that could enjoy himself in bed if he wasn’t moderately comfortable down there, so if the condom doesn’t feel right, it may well be too small to fit over a winky whose person wants to feel enough sensation to have fun with it! In the opposite direction but still dealing with stretchy things, a woman’s vagina can hold a baby’s head, but that’s definitely not any fun at all, so why would anyone think a too-tight condom would be fun? Corr ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/24 "2001-11-12T19:57:57Z")
Well, I used regular ones for a while, but found that the ring was too tight. Now, with Magnums, it’s still a little tight, but they roll down easier. FTR- 7" long, 6" circumference. ---
**Author:** ![carpoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@carpoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carpoon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/25 "2001-11-12T21:00:39Z")
I don’t have any real illusions about my size, but I guess I’m larger than average. All I really know is that where regular condoms felt tight and had a tendency to break, I am more comfortable in the magnum size and have yet to have a breakage. Granted, the lack of breakage doesn’t really tell anything- it may have more to do with my learning a little more about the fairer sex and that foreplay thing- but I’m not going to argue with results, especially when I get to feel cool for buying “magnums”. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/26 "2001-11-13T17:40:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by thinksnow \* > penis-of-unusual-size_\* P.O.U.S.s? I don’t believe they exist. 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![geepee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ebca7d/32.png) [@geepee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geepee)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/27 "2001-11-13T18:01:49Z")
Course if magnums don’t fit you could always try a femendom you can fit a 4 litre bottle of coke into that and still have room for nachos and popcorn , a Female comedian used to carry one on to the stage at the comedy lab. She used to unravel it and said , I dunna want a man unless he can fill this. Of which all the guys started looking to the grouns shuffling their feet ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/28 "2001-11-13T21:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > A marketing trick. > > Blowing up a (standard-size) condom is an old and juvenile party trick. When inflated, the things are seriously big - 18" long and 6" in diameter? Any guy whose member exceeds the dimensions of a blown-up condom isn’t going to be having sex anytime - at least not with a h You, sir or madam, do not know of what you speak. Magnums are _essential_ to some of us. I do not attempt to brag, but I think I am greater in girth (not length) than average, and ordinary condoms _hurt_ when I use them. Until Max and Magnums came along I thought there was something wrong with me. I know that condoms stretch an awful lot, but that doesn’t mean you can wear and use them comfortably. Rubber gloves can be inflated to a huge size, too, but they make those in Small, Medium, and Large, because if you’ve got large hands and wear a Small glove your fingers will go numb. It doesn’t matter than the rubber _can_ stretch. In practice, it constricts the flow of blood to your fingers too much. It’s worse when you constrict the flow of blood to other members. As far as I’m concerned, condoms _should_ be marketed by size – a good and comfortable fit is essential. There’s an obvious psychological problem with doing this, though. I’m glad that there are at least the two sizes available. It ain’t an advertising or marketing ploy. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/29 "2001-11-13T23:08:53Z")
My first boyfriend got us one of those grab-bags of condoms you used to be able to order from the back of Rolling Stone. He always seemed to be fine with whichever one he happened to pull out (we were pretty much the same dimensions), whereas I was the one who got stuck with the eenie weenie condom from hell. It felt like a tourniquet. Nothing quite like rolling it down and yelping in pain. I don’t remember the brand, but the convenional wisdom is that Asian brands (such as Kimono) tend to be narrower. Chekmate is not a brand known in the U.S. For us there’s Trojan, Durex (f/k/a Sheikh), Avanti, LifeStyles, and maybe Ramses (do they make those anymore?). Also Kimono, Silk, and a couple of others. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Zambezi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Mr.Zambezi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zambezi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/30 "2001-11-13T23:50:50Z")
Magnums feel much better for me. My wife used to make fun of me for buying them, but they go on easier and I don’t feel like I have a rubber band around my weiner. Other condoms are just a little bit too tight at the base/ring. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/31 "2001-11-14T00:58:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*porcupine \*\* > P.O.U.S.s? I don’t believe they exist. I am _so_ glad someone [got that](http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0093779)! _[Immediately, an P.O.U.S. attacks her]_ ---
**Author:** ![tsunamisurfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@tsunamisurfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsunamisurfer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/32 "2001-11-14T01:46:32Z")
As the respective condom marketing divisions finally catch up to the male ego, it’s certain that a recalibrated sizes will be introduced. Moving up the, um, pecking order from “Magnum,” we have: Jumbo, Huge, Beast, Mr. Ed, Rhino, Bull Elephant, Mr. Ed’s Very Popular Brother, MegaBeast, Damn!!, and finally, O Sweet Mystery of Life I Have Found You! ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/33 "2001-11-14T02:54:08Z")
That’s gotta be the best sig material I’ve seen in a looooong time… ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/34 "2001-11-14T08:04:19Z")
Magnums- All others lend new meaning to the term “Choking the chicken”. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*porcupine \*\* > > P.O.U.S.s? I don’t believe they exist. > > I am _so_ glad someone [got that](http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0093779)! > > _[Immediately, an P.O.U.S. attacks her]_ \*\* [hijack] My god, I have found my permanent residence on the internet. Who would have thought there are so many Princess Bride dopers?[/hijack] * * * Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons! ~And I know I wasn’t right, but it felt so good -Better Than Ezra ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/35 "2001-11-14T10:34:06Z")
I don’t care what any of you freaks-of-nature say. I still prefer to believe it’s just a marketing gimmick. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/36 "2001-11-14T13:51:01Z")
Some people say that about SUVs (Somewhat Underdeveloped Vectors). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Meister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Der\_Meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Meister)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/37 "2001-11-15T05:42:47Z")
It’s amazing how all the Dopers have 6+ inch penises, when the average is well in the 5-5.9 range. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/38 "2001-11-15T06:24:29Z")
Ok, this is me getting all pedantic, so hide the children… I think that part of the reason we have so many people in the nether regions of the bell curve is that guys tend to overestimate their, shall we say, gifts. I mean, everybody knows that penes are measured along the top for medical studies, but from the bottom when you do it yourself. Don’t believe me, which gives a bigger number? That’s what I thought. As for me, I just wake up in the morning, throw it over my shoulder, and go about my business. 😉 Tenebras ---
**Author:** ![Chekmate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@Chekmate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chekmate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/39 "2001-11-15T06:55:54Z")
I prefer to wrap it around my thigh myself… ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882/40 "2001-11-15T07:43:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tenebras \* > \*\*I think that part of the reason we have so many people in the nether regions of the bell curve is that guys tend to overestimate their, shall we say, gifts. > > \*\* Also, the guys with smaller penii aren’t even reading this thread. “Magnum condoms? Never heard of 'em! I’d like a box of condoms please. Uh, no smaller, no smaller, smaller, nope smaller. Do you have a smaller size than these, uh, super thimbles?” FTR, I can’t address the issue, cause I’ve never worn a condom. 😃 If I did though, I’d need _Extra Medium_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnum-sized-condoms/92882.md?page=3)