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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
