# Men - Can you tell when a condom has slipped off? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395 "2007-07-27T16:50:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/21 "2007-07-27T21:07:22Z")
It has never happened to me, so I’m not sure. There is a definite difference between entering a woman with one on and without one. But I’m not sure once it is in whether I would notice it had fallen off. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/22 "2007-07-27T21:29:52Z")
It’s only happened to me once, and looking back, I knew when it had; everything went up a notch, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/23 "2007-07-27T21:50:33Z")
What about men who take it up the arse? That hasn’t been answered yet, and it seems the obvious question to ask. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/24 "2007-07-28T01:18:15Z")
[QUOTE=niblet\_head] Thank you, **sturmhauke**. That’s very helpful. I’m glad you took the time to post that for me. 😛😉 (Goofball!) [/QUOTE] 🆒 Actually, there have been a couple of times where the condom was in danger of sliding off, usually during the post-coital withdrawal phase. I could feel it staying behind, so I reached down to maneuver it out. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/25 "2007-07-28T02:46:53Z")
Never had one slip off – they are pretty tight on me – but they break quite regularly – which I can feel for I no longer feel bound by the condom. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/26 "2007-07-28T02:49:45Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] You’re the nasty shag 😉 I think the correct thing to say on the Straight Dope Message Board: Thank you, I’ll be here all night [/QUOTE] When I first moved to north-west Ontario, I was rather surprised that people here sell tickets to shags for engaged couples. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/27 "2007-07-28T04:20:44Z")
Gay man - I have only topped a handful of times in my life, and never had one slip off/rip. The bf rips them occasionally, and he can tell immediately, but I don’t know if he’s ever had one slip off. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/28 "2007-07-29T08:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] I managed to push right through and out the other side [/QUOTE] Cue The Doors lyrics… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/29 "2007-07-29T09:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Small British Shop Owner] What about men who take it up the arse? That hasn’t been answered yet, and it seems the obvious question to ask. [/QUOTE] You speak with the voice of experience maybe :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/30 "2007-07-29T16:24:34Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] When I first moved to north-west Ontario, I was rather surprised that people here sell tickets to shags for engaged couples. [/QUOTE] STAGS, Muffin. Not shags. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/31 "2007-07-29T16:54:58Z")
No Ginger, it is SHAGS…combo of “shower/stag” but yeah it always gets some comic moments with out of towners… But considering the number of hook-ups that happen at these social events…(called buck’n’does or wedding socials elsewhere, I believe) SHAG isn’t innappropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/32 "2007-07-29T16:59:40Z")
Yup, though when it breaks/slips off thats usually the worst time to think clearly. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/33 "2007-07-29T17:01:25Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] STAGS, Muffin. Not shags. Sheesh. [/QUOTE] Ne shitteth vous pas : [shags](http://www.tbsource.com/7wonderscom.asp?cid=96611). In northwestern Ontario, friends of newlyweds will put on a shag for the couple. They rent a hall, hire a DJ or band, set up a bar, purchase door prizes, and sell admission tickets to the general community, usually by way of handing packets of tickets to other friends and saying “Here’s 20 tickets for Fred and Wilma’s shag next Friday night at the Moose Hall; sell them, and get back to me if you need more.” Come the night of the shag, everybody, their grandmother and their dog turns up at the hall, drinks, eats persians, dances, possibly wins a door prize, possibly wins something from a gambling table (though profits from that must go to a charity), and generaly has a lot of fun with their friends and a lot of fun meeting new people. Most shags will raise several thousand dollars for the newlyweds, and the really big shags will raise several times that much. We also have stags and showers, but they are much smaller and are for close friends. Shags are more like community socials. Google “shag” and “Thunder Bay”. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/34 "2007-07-29T17:05:49Z")
[QUOTE=niblet\_head] As a woman, I can’t tell when a condom has slipped off during sex, but can a man? [/QUOTE] Well to start with, your ears get cold and other pedestrians caution you about frostbite. _[Muffin looks about]What?[/Muffin looks about]_ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/35 "2007-07-29T18:48:11Z")
Sheesh. In the West we didn’t do that sort of thing. Although it sure would have been nice to have had my wedding paid for by the community! ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/36 "2007-07-29T22:07:22Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Come the night of the shag, everybody, their grandmother and their dog turns up at the hall, drinks, eats persians, dances, possibly wins a door prize, possibly wins something from a gambling table (though profits from that must go to a charity), and generaly has a lot of fun with their friends and a lot of fun meeting new people. Most shags will raise several thousand dollars for the newlyweds, and the really big shags will raise several times that much. We also have stags and showers, but they are much smaller and are for close friends. Shags are more like community socials. [/QUOTE] Thanks for clearing that up. It started getting even weirder when you said they sell tickets for shags of engaged couples. I knew Canada was liberal, but jeez. Well, I’ve seen shags in Thailand, Amsterdam and King’s Cross in Sydney, and believe me, they were nothing like what you described. Although there may have been some eating of persians. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Small\_British\_Shop\_Owner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_British_Shop_Owner)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/37 "2007-07-29T22:32:16Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] You speak with the voice of experience maybe :dubious: [/QUOTE] You’re the manchurian! (Come on, we’re both old curmudgeonly gits, no need to be arguing all the time - email me at smallshopowner at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com)) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/38 "2007-07-29T22:34:53Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Thanks for clearing that up. It started getting even weirder when you said they sell tickets for shags of engaged couples. I knew Canada was liberal, but jeez. Well, I’ve seen shags in Thailand, Amsterdam and King’s Cross in Sydney, and believe me, they were nothing like what you described. Although there may have been some eating of persians. [/QUOTE] If you are into that sort of community shag, try montrealsexyboat or torontosexyboat. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/39 "2007-07-29T22:41:19Z")
Yes, that’s when it starts to feel like 10X as good. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395/40 "2007-07-30T06:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Ne shitteth vous pas : [shags](http://www.tbsource.com/7wonderscom.asp?cid=96611). Come the night of the shag, everybody, their grandmother and their dog turns up at the hall, drinks, eats persians, dances, possibly wins a door prize, possibly wins something from a gambling table (though profits from that must go to a charity), and generaly has a lot of fun with their friends and a lot of fun meeting new people. [/QUOTE] I was thinking tonight that “I ate persians at the shag” has a very unique thunder bay meaning…LOL. Came home to post it, but … too late. So, want a baggie full of shag tickets to sell…? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-can-you-tell-when-a-condom-has-slipped-off/413395.md?page=3)