# Why no ribbed or warming sensation Magnum XL Condoms? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384 "2007-03-18T00:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [March 19, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/21 "2007-03-19T14:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by adam yax > You do realize that the ‘Magnum’ is a marketing gimick? Considering the amount that a normal condom can stretch, I don’t think that there are too many guys who ‘require’ a larger condom. > > It’s not a marketing gimmick. Magnums are 32% larger and Magnum XL are even larger than that. Believe me, when I tried to use a regular condom back in the day, it’s so tight it I can barely get it over 2" of the tip of my penis. As the gentleman stated below your post, it’s very tight. I’ll second this – normal condoms may stretch, but they’re so tight (or the relevant muscles back there are perhaps so weak) that I am unable to ejaculate through a normal condom, and it _huets_, dammit. For a long time I thought something was wrong with me, until I found first **Maxx** , and then \*\* Magnums\*\*. (and **avanti** , which aren’t latex, which can be a plus.) I’m not long, just thicker than average, and it makes a difference. If you think that just because latex can stretch, and that answers all objections about size, try wearing latex gloves that are too small until it cuts off the circulation and feeling in your fingers. It’s _not_ an advertising gimmick. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/22 "2007-03-19T14:48:47Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] The small percentage of us that use Magnum XL Condoms would like to have a variety as well. [/QUOTE] Why oh why isn’t having a big dick enough for you select few? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/23 "2007-03-19T15:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=Enright3] I’ll say. I saw a friend of mine (stolen from Howie Mandel, I think, although that may have been a surgical glove in his case) take a regular condom, blow it up, and pull it over head head… ring and all. It didn’t break. [/QUOTE] Your friend most likely unrolled it all the way before he blew it up. I’d like to see him try and get it over his head with the last few inches still tightly bundled. Did I just say that out loud?! 😮 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/24 "2007-03-19T15:49:47Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Japanese condoms were too small for me also. One night with my then-girlfriend, I got so frustrated at the miniature condoms that we ended up using the pull-out method. I’m quite lucky to still be sans-child :eek: [/QUOTE] When travelling in some countries (Japan is one, but also Europe in the mid '90’s–maybe it’s changed) I have needed to prepare by bringing my own condoms. As others have mentioned, it’s the ring. \*[**WARNING** : What will be perceived as gratuitous cock-bragging, but which I don’t intend that way, ahead. \* (“heh-heh… he said ‘head’!”)] I miss the discontinued “Trojan LARGE” condoms. They were more comfortable and easier to put on than the Magnums, IMO (for all I know they are the same size). I get embarrassed buying these larger condoms. Life (for me, anyway) is not like a Hollywood comedy where a man proudly plops down the “Extra Huge Condoms” box on the drugstore counter in front of the pretty salesgirl with a huge, lewd grin on his face. I wish they would just give larger condoms normal, but distinguishable, names. Somewhere I traveled (I don’t recall where) there were plainly marked boxes of condoms in different sizes where you had to look at the back to see the size-- it was listed not in ego-stroking terms like “Huge”; " Enormous"; “X-tra Gigantized”; “OMG! Girlfriend in the ER!”, but instead in the actual diameter of the ring in millimeters. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/25 "2007-03-19T16:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] You do realize that the ‘Magnum’ is a marketing gimick? Considering the amount that a normal condom can stretch, I don’t think that there are too many guys who ‘require’ a larger condom. [/QUOTE] So sorry, Bro. Getting on a regular one is a struggle and breakage is likely even before sex. The Magnums go on easy. I bought some XLs by accident one time and they didn’t seem very much bigger than the regular Magnums to me. As for the OP, it’s probably just a simple matter of supply and demand. I don’t care for gimmicks on my condoms anyway. I used to be a little embarrassed buying them too but I got over it. You can always get them on-line. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/26 "2007-03-19T16:24:50Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I refuse to be an enabler in your twisted penis fantasy! [/QUOTE] What’s to fantasise about? Surely that would hurt, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/27 "2007-03-19T17:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Why oh why isn’t having a big dick enough for you select few? 😕 [/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly. Some people really make me sick 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/28 "2007-03-19T17:55:24Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher] My friend’s dad is 89 years iold, and was a dentist waaay back in the day. I am not sure if this is true or not, but my buddy tells it like it is… His dad had a cut on his finger and was using a finger cot [Finger cot - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_cot) when he saw patients. He left one in his pocket by accident. His wife found it when doing laundry and DEMANDED an explanation! [/QUOTE] I just had to respond to thank you, **newcrasher**. You just answered a question that’s plagued me since I was twelve years old. My cousin and I were poking around in her father’s bathroom and discovered a little plastic box full of those things. We thought we were pretty savvy tweens and were rather horrified to think of the awful, awful anatomical shortcomings of her father. Now, at last, I understand. I’ll be forwarding that Wikipedia article to my cousin. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/29 "2007-03-19T20:59:15Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] The small percentage of us that use Magnum XL Condoms would like to have a variety as well. [/QUOTE] Yes, Diggly, we already know you have a big’n. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/30 "2007-03-19T21:38:33Z")
I’d be willing to settle for no ribbed or warming sensation condoms. If I want anything I have to skin a sheep and use that. That’s the only thing that fits for me. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/31 "2007-03-19T21:56:18Z")
Okay, I’ve slogged through all the silliness (and I wonder if **chowder** is flirting with a technical foul. Maybe the smilie wards it off.) The answer, **Diggleblop** , is simple. KY and Astroglide both make warming liquid lubes you can use in concert with your broad-shouldered condoms. Ample lube is a courtesy to the partner that a man of dimension should not be without. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/32 "2007-03-19T23:26:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’ll second this – normal condoms may stretch, but they’re so tight (or the relevant muscles back there are perhaps so weak) that I am unable to ejaculate through a normal condom Wouldn’t ejaculating **through** a condom kind of defeat its purpose? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/33 "2007-03-19T23:42:06Z")
From up close & personal experience with a couple of men with the same issue, the issue itself is no joke. Having your partner rip through a Magnum XXL every 60 seconds is not fun. The Magnum XL are tapered at the base, and it constricts an extra-thick penis that truly falls into that category (like someone with a 7" _circumference_). Same with the Magnum XXL. The base simply can’t be stretched enough to be comfortable, and the length of either isn’t anything to write home about. TheyFit made condom sizes to fit absolutely everyone, but from a quick search it appears they have recently stopped production. I did find this site in Amsterdam that does custom condoms if their ready-made sizes aren’t sufficient. Their largest size is fairly large though. > **[Condoom maatsysteem van de Condomerie](https://condomerie.com/nl/condomologie/condomerie-cas-index)** > > Condomerie heeft een handig maatsysteem voor They make a condom that has nearly a 5" base opening and is almost 9" in length. Stretched, that should fit most over-endowed men. ---
**Author:** ![PleasureNPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PleasureNPain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PleasureNPain)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/34 "2007-03-20T03:18:29Z")
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**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:** [March 20, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/35 "2007-03-20T12:20:05Z")
I like the fact that the site **PleasureNPain** links to has a “Bulk Sales” department. I always buy my condoms and vibrators in bulk! ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/36 "2007-03-20T13:08:22Z")
I use a carrier bag slathered inside with Deep Heat, for that ‘warming sensation’. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/37 "2007-03-20T13:49:37Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] Your friend most likely unrolled it all the way before he blew it up. I’d like to see him try and get it over his head with the last few inches still tightly bundled. Did I just say that out loud?! 😮 [/QUOTE] Yea, I’m sure he probably did too. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/38 "2007-03-21T15:41:38Z")
I looked in the drugstore yesterday, and saw that they had Magnum condoms _with Warming Sensation_. Half the _raison d’etre_ of this thread is gone! They don’t have Ribbed, but they do have Twisted Magnums. And, as I pointed out upstream, iy ain’t about Length, it’s about girth. Just because you use Magnums isn’t an excuse to brag. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/39 "2007-03-21T15:48:21Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Just because you use Magnums isn’t an excuse to brag. [/QUOTE] I agree. Now, if you are forced to use a turkey cooking bag, that’s another story. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384/40 "2007-03-21T15:56:29Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I looked in the drugstore yesterday, and saw that they had Magnum condoms _with Warming Sensation_. Half the _raison d’etre_ of this thread is gone! [/QUOTE] No. The OP was complaining about Magnum _XL_s not coming with extra bells and whistles and specifically said that regular Magnums had them. BTW, it’s length _and_ girth that gets it done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-ribbed-or-warming-sensation-magnum-xl-condoms/396384.md?page=3)