# Speaking of condoms...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 27, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932 "2000-11-27T23:14:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/1 "2000-11-27T23:14:19Z")
Can someone explain the point of ribbed condoms? Is there a woman alive who can feel the difference?
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/2 "2000-11-27T23:18:16Z")
Use an unlube’d one and you’ll feel it alright. Just say no.
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/3 "2000-11-27T23:21:00Z")
I cant really tell with the ribbed, but yeah. The non-lubricated ones really do squeak. Ick.
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### Author:  [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/4 "2000-11-27T23:27:18Z")
Who was speaking of condoms?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/5 "2000-11-28T00:22:51Z")
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> \*Originally posted by absoul \*
> \*\*Who was speaking of condoms?
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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48229](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=48229)
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### Author:  [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/6 "2000-11-28T00:32:09Z")
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> \*Originally posted by absoul \*
> \*\*Who was speaking of condoms? \*\*
That would be me, in the thread linked above. 😃
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/7 "2000-11-28T03:55:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by OpalCat \*
> \*\*Can someone explain the point of ribbed condoms? Is there a woman alive who can feel the difference? \*\*
Ah, but if we THINK you can, we’ll feel more virile.
And that, you probably will notice.
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/8 "2000-11-28T03:56:32Z")
Or at least we’ll think so. No harm either way.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/9 "2000-11-28T04:01:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by absoul \*
> \*\*Who was speaking of condoms?
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[What condoms are best?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47999)
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/10 "2000-11-28T15:16:25Z")
Geez, Opal, it says right on the package “Ribbed for **HER** pleasure”. Next you’ll be telling us that the french ticklers with 5" tassles and karate chop action are just a marketing ploy, too.
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/11 "2000-11-28T15:35:35Z")
One amusing anecdote I have from a relationship I had a year ago was one from night we were in a bar, seeing a concert. I step into the men’s room to visit the Used Beer Department and notice a condom machine selling ribbed “for her pleasure” condoms.
As I go back out, I ask my girlfriend what they’re selling in the women’s bathroom. She checks for me, and sure enough, it’s chocolate-flavoured condoms.
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### Author:  [@Lowellster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowellster)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/12 "2000-11-28T15:38:42Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \*
> \*\*Geez, Opal, it says right on the package “Ribbed for **HER** pleasure”. \*\*
I wear 'em inside out. Why should she have ALL the fun?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/13 "2000-11-28T15:43:25Z")
Well maybe I have a Vagomoly (Vaginal Anomoly) but inside there… I couldn’t tell the difference between a round dick or a square one, let alone some nuance of texture. The inside walls of MY hoohoo are almost the same as the insides of my cheeks, as far as amount and type of sensation.
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### Author:  [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/14 "2000-11-28T15:50:52Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \*
> \*\*Next you’ll be telling us that the french ticklers with 5" tassles and karate chop action are just a marketing ploy, too. \*\*
You forgot Kung Fu Grip…The babes love that.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/15 "2000-11-28T16:51:53Z")
I thinnk that ribs just give a guy a wider penis.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/16 "2000-11-28T17:04:25Z")
I can’t help but wonder what the ribs are made of–extra latex rolls, perhaps? My wife thought they were just too lame to buy one, so I never got to find out.
**OpalCat** –I hate to ask how you found you couldn’t tell the difference between “round” and “square.” Did you, by any chance–nah, won’t ask. 🙂 Hmmm…by the same token, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between “cut” and “uncut.” JDT should be informed.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/17 "2000-11-28T17:08:34Z")
Your “hoohoo?” Geez, everyone knows to call 'em “your naughty bits.”
Then again, just think how many more books would have been sold had it been entitled “Horton Hears a HooHoo.”
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/18 "2000-11-28T21:16:12Z")
No, no, no, plnnr, it should be an introductory sex education book entitled “Horton, here’s a hoohoo”.
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/19 "2000-11-28T21:23:38Z")
Page 1 - Introduction
What has lips but doesn’t pout?
What’s smooth inside but furry out?
What makes straight men stand up and shout?
Why, hoohoo’s what it’s all about!
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### Author:  [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-condoms/42932/20 "2000-11-28T21:25:37Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \*
> \*\*No, no, no, plnnr, it should be an introductory sex education book entitled “Horton, here’s a hoohoo”. \*\*
I now have coffee all over my keyboard. Thank you **Doctor Jackson**. That’s hilarious.
My ex-wife and I used a ribbed condom once, she could not have cared less.
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