Talk:Condom

Someone else changed the page, with this notation as to the change:

"Those who care to have sex again will "withdraw" the penis rather than going to the extreme of "removing" it...."

That gave me such a good laugh that I just wanted to preserve it in the talk here. . . Thanks, Someone else.

Did people really try to knit condoms? Not that I'm doubting the research of whoever put that in, it's just weird.
Calieber 17:55, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

may it be possible to add something about the etymology?

List of inventions named after people says condom is named after Earl of Condom, personal physical to the King Charles II of England. Fact or fiction ? Jay 05:16, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I tend to doubt this. (1) King Charles' court physician, who tended him in his final illness, was Sir Charles Scarborough (1616-1694), though of course he may have had other physicians.... But (2) there is no "Earldom of Condom" listed in Burke's Extinct Peerage. And something also tells me King Charles wasn't using condoms all that regularly, since he fathered at least sixteen bastard children! -- Nunh-huh 05:37, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

But he had far more mistresses than the number of children. Now what does this prove ! Jay 06:06, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That being a king is a really good way to get girls, and that condoms are not a really good way of avoiding begetting them? - Nunh-huh 06:11, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

80 Google hits for "Earl of Condom". [1] says William E. Kruck has written an article 'Looking for Dr Condom', Publication of the American Dialect Society, no. 66, 1981, which is a meticulous and effective repudiation of all those 'Dr/Colonel/Earl of Condom' myths about the origin of the condom. Can someone find that article online anywhere. Jay 06:18, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The OED says "Origin unknown; no 18th-cent. physician named Condom or Conton has been traced though a doctor so named is often said to be the inventor of the sheath." -- Dominus 14:52, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A friend of mine said that her partner had used a condom, and she was on birth control pill, but she had still became pregnant.

JesseG 03:30, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Where and how does one dispose a used condom ?

Female condoms

The female condoms I'm quite familiar with do not advertise that they "slide on the penis". That is only applicable to circumcised sex. I believe the "slide on" sentence should be removed, unless further explaination is given as to the mechanics. Tightly circumcised men often cannot use these types of condoms without adding large amounts of lubricants, or just jamming the thing into the vagina quite easily with our nerve-deadened genitals. DanP 22:18, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A female condom is supposed to be inserted in the vagina or anus, not put on the penis, before intercourse. They could not even "slide" on a penis (cut or uncut) because they would just drape around one, they even have little rings which secure the condom in the orafice. Hyacinth 22:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Then why does it say "The instructions for use of female condoms are of necessity different from those of male condoms, since they are inserted rather than worn, and designed to slide on the penis, rather than to fit tightly over it." I know them well, yes they drape around a penis once it's inserted. But the sentence says "slide on", which is totally different. Uncut or restored, the penis does not need to "slide" skin-to-rubber. Something has to "give": the latex, the penis, the vagina, or a some layer of lubricant somewhere in-between. Cut tightly, the penis has only the lubrication for give, or else the condom gets shoved in. First-hand experience. So "drape around" is OK, but saying "slide on" is misleading unless copious lube is applied on one particular side of the condom. DanP 22:53, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)