California lawmakers, HIV activists, and women's advocacy groups on Wednesday sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration and companies that manufacture condoms asking them to stop making condoms that include the spermicide nonoxynol-9, the Los Angeles Times reports. The request was made based on studies showing that the spermicide may actually make it easier to be infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases by irritating epithelial cells in the vagina and anus. About 35% of all condoms sold in the United States include nonoxynol-9.
Be Safe in Missouri
Dear Be Safe,
I'm sorry to have to let you down but Forex condoms have not been manufactered in years. The only natural lambskin condoms still available on the market are the Trojan Naturalamb condoms. Sorry we couldn't be more help.
That Other Condom Guru
Thank you for your time.
Anal About Lube
Dear AAL,
Actually Liquid Silk contains dimethicone. Traditional silicones, such as dimethicones and cyclomethicones, are used in some personal lubrication products to improve feel and spreading, to impart lubricity, provide barrier properties, and add conditioning benefits.
Wow is that a mouthful or what?
You are right that some women who are prone to yeast infections should try to avoid lubes such as Astroglide because they contain glycerines. Glycerines break down into simple sugars which do not do so well in the vagina. Simple sugars introduced into the vagina are often a precurser to a raging and uncomfortable yeast infection.
So to answer your question yes Liquid Silk can be a fine choice of lubricant for those who have a tendency to get yeast infections but no you should not use Liquid Silk if you like to play with silicone based sex toys.
That Other Condom Guru
In a direct attack on the Bush administration's stance on HIV prevention, authors from a leading US sexual health and family planning organisation asserts that consistent use of condoms can reduce the risk of HIV transmission in discordant couples to "near zero" in an editorial in the August edition of the journal 'Sexually Transmitted Infections'. The authors also note that although condoms are extremely cost effective, their importance to HIV prevention seems to have been forgotten in the push for global treatment access, and that other substantial obstacles still exist to effective condom distribution schemes.
I want to know what condom the porn stars use. It looks like the ones they use fit really tight and almost looks like its saran wrap? Do you have any ideas or do u know what i am talking about?
Porn Star N' the Making
What a great question. I can see that you take your porn very seriously! Just make sure you don't get to close to the "tube" as we understand it can cause eye problems.
But seriously, every porn star has their own specific likes and dislikes in condoms. Some have specific condom choices as part of their contracts and some will make do with whatever condoms are made available on the set by the producers. One condom I that I know for a fact is used on quite a few sets on a regular basis is the Paradise condom. It is very thin and comfortable along with being a pleasing shade of pink which lends itself well to closeups.
Of course, not having been on a Vivid shoot yet I can't guarantee this, it seems like a no brainer that the fine Vivid ladies would only use Vivid condoms for their shoots.
Of course Gene Simmons may wish they used his.
Hope this helps.
That Other Condom Guru
The single fastest-growing grocery items are incontinence pads, sales of which rose 28 per over a year, while sales of acne products and cosmetics each rose 20 per cent.
Condom sales rose 10 per cent.
Nice to know incontinence pads are outselling condoms! Smirk!
"How many women have you slept with?" she asked, smiling and trying to prod the information out of him.
"I can't know," he sniffed. "I don't want to know."
"Do you know your HIV status?" she asked.
"That one I don't want to know," he said.
"Today, you sleep with this one, the next day another, the next day someone else," Odhiambo said, sitting next to him and trying to convince him of the danger. "Do you use a condom?"
"Never," he responded. "They won't be really cleansed if the condom was there."
This is a cultural habit which really really needs to die out. Education, education, education.
Condomi has this silly penis size calculator I haven't seen before. I pretended I have the biggest penis ever, which I don't, and it came up with a condom only about 6" in length and suggested I buy a sampler. Well, as fun as the gibberish speaker shop clerk is we've got a much better penis size calculator. And the properly sized condoms to go with it!
I recently purchased a bottle of Astroglide from you guys. I had a questions about the product and using it with a condom. It states on the package that you can apply the lubricant to the inner and outer surfaces of the condom. Does this mean, applying a few drops to the inside and more to the out or do you apply the same amount to both the inside and outside of the condom. What benefits does this have in protecting me during sex?
Thanks you for everything,
The other Lucy.
Dear Lucy,
There reason people add lubricant to condoms is to help in reducing the friction caused by sexual intercourse. It also helps in making the condom feel more sensitive. Apply lubricant to the inside of a condom does the same, and a little more. When a person adds lubrication to the inside of a condom, it helps in creating a "water seal" of a type. A few drops of lubricant put on the head of the penis before you roll the condom on, will help you see and hopefully expel any pockets of air that could cause the condom to break.
So not only does lubricant add sensitivity to the sexual act, it also helps in protecting you and the condom from damage.
PJ agreed with me when I said "movie stars shouldn't be allowed to run for public office, because the voting public can't decipher the difference between a manufactured image and the real person" and then he added "either that or all public offices should be held by movie stars". we both laughed and went on to cast the perfect government.
Apparently Arnold has been described as a "condom stuffed full of walnuts." Here he is between a couple of melons.
The New York City Health Department has found that gay New Yorkers are more likely to use condoms than straight New Yorkers. It seems rather obvious to me that these numbers should track each other prety closely. I wonder why straight folk would be less likely to use condoms than gay folk? After all, sexually transmitted infections do not discriminate between gay and straight hosts.
This is just sad. This company sent millions of spam messages to unsuspecting folk who want a "larger penis" only to leave their identities exposed to the world. No wonder spam is such a scourge.
We've been using Cloudmark around here for a while now. It works really well. Previously we used a plethora of other solutions but none of them lived up to their promise. If your whole machine stalls while your email is being scanned for spam you know something is wrong.
Brian McWilliams is absolutely correct though: if you do the math it's no wonder spammers do what they do. Fortunately even if, by some weird twist of fate, these suckers do get their HUGE penis they'll be able to wrap the rascal with Condomania's about to be launched TheyFit condoms.
These suckers are HUGE!
I need to know which of the larger sized condoms are actually the widest. I've tried the Durex Avanti, but I still need a condom that will fit a man with more girth than normal.
Thanks in advance,
Satisfied
Dear Satisfied,
I am sorry to hear that the
Durex Avanti did not work out for you but it is one of the widest condoms sold in the US. I am happy to say that there are a few other condoms that are wider and hopefully you can find one that will suit your needs. Listed below are a couple of condoms that are roomier top to bottom.
First let's start with the Trojan Magnum XL The Magnum XL was developed especially for the guys who need a little more breathing room. The MagnumXl measures 205mm in length and 54/65mm in width at the base and head respectfully.
A second larger sized condom would be the LifeStyles Large. While the width of the Lifestyles is the same as the Magnum XL it is a tad shorted in length, measuring in at 190mm. The Lifestyles large is the most recent entry to the larger size family, and has developed quite a following.
Thank you and I hope the information I have given you, helps in your search for that perfect condom!
Good Luck,
Condom Guru #1
Hey I just discovered "The 'Science' of Picking Up Women". Too bad I'm married.
A typical exchange might go something like this, Simmons says: " 'Hi, it's Gene Simmons, can I speak to the president?' 'I'm sorry?' 'Ya know, Gene Simmons, the guy from Kiss; I stick my tongue out.' 'Yeah, right! Jerry, is this you?'...It happens all the time."
Since trademarking its logo and its signature face-makeup designs in the mid-'70s, Kiss has licensed those internationally known rock icons--the logo and all four faces are owned by Simmons and Stanley exclusively--to more than 2,000 companies, from makers of toilet paper and Matchbox cars to manufacturers of caskets and automobiles.
It all began during the '70s, with the creation of such items as comic books, lunch boxes, bubblegum cards and, of course, the Kiss dolls.
And while it's got to the point where companies are constantly approaching the band about new products, a good number of the ideas that have seen the light of day—like the Kondoms 8212;are engineered by Simmons himself.
Hary Terrell wants to bring out a new line of condoms called Jimmie Hatz. I wonder if he's aware of Homeboy Condoms?
from NAMES & FACES (washingtonpost.com)
"I get a voicemail on my cell phone, saying, 'Hi, Adam, this is Gene Simmons, that crazy guy from Kiss. Let's talk about condoms. Call me.' And the next day — no joke — I'm in his Beverly Hills kitchen eating melon balls like we've been friends for 20 years."
— Adam Glickman, CEO of Los Angeles-based Condomania, about the creation of his company's newly launched Kiss Kondoms.
Wendell Wagler in a letter to the editor of the Oregonian argues that promoting condoms is ineffective.
Shepherd Smith, president of the Institute for Youth Development in Washington, D.C., says the broad social marketing of condoms has not been shown to be effective. In fact, there is no instance in any country where broad-based marketing of condoms reduced HIV infection rates.
Apparently Wendell Wagler missed that whole period of history when the Comstock laws were in effect and the US military eventually started making condoms available to soldiers because so many of them were catching syphilis.
And sure enough the use of condoms and education brought about a very large decline in the numbers of US soldiers infected with these veneral diseases.
Here's a great paper on the Treatment of Syphilis in 1915. Sounds terrible, doesn't it Wendell?
Here's another quote from Scarleteen, a great resource for questions about teenage sexuality:
In the realm of sex "education" disinformation, we're currently in a very similar place to where we were back during the First World War. As part of a WWI "chastity campaign," “social hygienists" pushed the military to ban condom distribution among US troops, while all other countries involved in the war freely provided their soldiers with condoms. Guess whose troops had the highest rates of syphilis and gonorrhea of all those in Europe? Guess whose troops brought the disease back to their wives? Guess whose ideas -- that condoms weren't helpful and could be replaced by abstinence, and that marriage provided a safe haven from sexually transmitted disease -- were proven, without a shadow of a doubt, to be both fallacious and deadly, providing our young nation with its first serious nationwide wave of sexually transmitted diseases and infections? That's right, baby, Uncle Sam's.
After a freak accident, given the testosterone of a hundred men, Dr. Bruce Phallus became a superhero. Fighting crime with his little sidekick Boy Boy. The adventures of Man Man, The testosterone avengers.
Isn't it cute how Boy Boy wears a Tou Tou?