# ribbed condoms (TMI warning)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 28, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288 "2005-02-28T13:35:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/1 "2005-02-28T13:35:32Z")
I am well past my condom buying days being safely married, but I always wonder about those machines in the toilets with those many styles of condoms
(i) whos pleasure are the ribbed condoms for - the man or or the womans?
(ii) do they work or just a marketing con
as you can tell I am pretty naive bout sex, but hey, the information may come in useful again some day
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/2 "2005-02-28T13:36:58Z")
From what I know, the ribs are generally “for her pleasure”, and I’ve only been told they feel “weird”. I guess wether it works or not is a personal preference.
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### Author:  [@poppachubby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poppachubby)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/3 "2005-02-28T13:38:04Z")
> [@scm1001](#):
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> I am well past my condom buying days being safely married, but I always wonder about those machines in the toilets with those many styles of condoms
>
> (i) whos pleasure are the ribbed condoms for - the man or or the womans?
> (ii) do they work or just a marketing con
>
> as you can tell I am pretty naive bout sex, but hey, the information may come in useful again some day
Actually im selfish…i wear them inside out for MY pleasure!
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### Author:  [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/4 "2005-02-28T13:48:44Z")
**poppachubby** , George Carlin called…and he is pissed!
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/5 "2005-02-28T15:36:04Z")
Never used the ones from the machines, but the regular “for her pleasure” drugstore ones do absolutely nothing extra-special for me. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
I’d call it marketing BS, for the most part, but I’m sure there are some women who go nuts for the things.
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### Author:  [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/6 "2005-02-28T15:36:29Z")
I’ve used the Trojan ribbed ones a few times - during the act, they really don’t feel much different from my perspective than unribbed.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/7 "2005-02-28T19:55:28Z")
I bought a ribbed condom from a bar bathroom machine once. It had a name like “Savage Bliss” or something. The “ribs” were more pronounced than those on a Trojan, and they were segmented, rather than being rings all the way around the condom.
I tried it out with my then-girlfriend. The effect was, um, dramatic. I thought she was going to smash the passenger side door open with her head. She liked it. Very much. Demanded I get more of them. Of course, she was naturally very sensitive to sexual stimulation anyway, but her reaction to these condoms was far and above her normal response.
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### Author:  [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/8 "2005-02-28T20:08:25Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#):
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> Never used the ones from the machines, but the regular “for her pleasure” drugstore ones do absolutely nothing extra-special for me. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
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> I’d call it marketing BS, for the most part, but I’m sure there are some women who go nuts for the things.
I’ve never gotten anything from those, either. Maybe the placebo effect works on some people.
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### Author:  [@poppachubby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poppachubby)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/9 "2005-02-28T20:32:17Z")
actually the best ones i’ve tried were polyurethane,not latex.EXELLENT sensantion transfer…
😃
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### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/10 "2005-02-28T20:41:28Z")
Do fundamentalists believe that a condom for men has one less rib than a condom for women? 😛
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/11 "2005-03-01T10:32:21Z")
tx for the replies. I guess they might work for some women, though the informal survey here suggests not for the majority
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2005, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/12 "2005-03-01T10:34:31Z")
Why on Earth would they market a condom asa _Trojan_?
What the fuck is inside it? :eek:
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### Author:  [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2005, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/13 "2005-03-01T10:56:06Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#):
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> Why on Earth would they market a condom asa _Trojan_?
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> What the fuck is inside it? :eek:
oh don’t worry, it’s just a little prick.
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### Author:  [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/14 "2005-03-01T11:59:47Z")
There’s a tradition in parts of Indonesia of implanting pebbles under the skin of the penis, so you never have to go without ribs. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ribbed-condoms-tmi-warning/292288/15 "2005-03-01T15:31:02Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#):
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> Why on Earth would they market a condom asa _Trojan_?
For its manly associations: the Trojans were mighty warriors. Read _The Iliad_.