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Breaking 12 Myths about Condoms
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Breaking 12 Myths about Condoms

Health & Fitness – Many people do not want to use condoms because of the myths around condoms.

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don't need them got one wife and i trust her she trusts me

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Didn't read number 7???

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Number 7 pretty much plays on pure paranoia. Guess what, you may walk out your front door and a plane will fall out of the sky on you... or, you may get gunned down on the street... or a meteorite may crash through your ceiling. Get an infection in a public pool? What's next, syphillus from a doorknob?

Not to offend anyone, but most these are pretty silly and sound like something they teach 8th graders in sex education.

Oh yeah, and a condom DOESN'T desensitize? That must've been written by a woman.

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Number 7 read, in part,"In the long run Herpes virus can suddenly "wake up", which is passively present in almost every organism." It could be plain old herpes, or herpes zoster

How about HPV?

It can take years for hepatitis C to actually rear its insidious, lifestyle-destroying head. Most people who get it nowadays (it is an epidemic) don't even know HOW they got it, let alone from WHO.

Not as far-fetched as a plane or meteorite.

In 8th grade health class, I actually paid attention. So much that I can spell "syphilis."

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It's the best idea to use condoms until your sure of each others health , then after a couple has talked and agreed to be monogamous and tested, then retested should the think about going bareback, about a year sounds good to me. Truth to be told nothing comes close to the feeling of shin on skin but until your sure better to be sure, you would thing it would make marriage more fashionable but it didn't. By the way, there's a long list of things condoms don't protect against so in fact the only safe sex is masturbation, aside from blisters.

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They tell me that there is a serial number printed right below the very top ring of every condom, which tells the manufacturer, the date, and the size....

...I didn't know it was there either. I never get to roll mine down that far to discover it is there.

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It's a lie, not all brands have it. It's more common on singles sold in vending machines.

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Something about the words breaking and condoms in the same title just doesn't sit well with me. ; )

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well your young my begotten days are long past I remember a neighbor and me took our kids fishing and when we got home told the boys to clean up the gear and store it well mamma and me heard them laughing that night and went in to see what they was doing they had blew all them up and were holding them sideways to slowly let the air out like gas they had gotten them out of the neighbors tackle box I gathered them all up and took them back to him he sure was at loss for words

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try punctuation, you may like it.

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Yeah and next you'll want it spelled right too

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I guess the neighbor though the fish were going to get pregnant? I'm not sure I would have wanted to keep condoms in my fishing tackle box? There are sharp fishhooks in there!

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A used condom smells like fish, so the tackle box wasn't such a bad idea...

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LOL!!!

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What about "Exploding 12 Myths..." Oh, wait...nevermind. :-P

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That's just wrong! ;)

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While my wife was alive she suggested that I go have the VAS so we would not have to invest in or trust in condoms, so in I went, snip snip and now the repeater was firing blanks. Within six months she had for whatever reasons, nothing STD, had to have some of her parts removed (i think it was uterous) but they left the ovaries intact. We still had plenty of fun in the sack but there was no need for me to endure the snip snip.

At least though now that she's gone I do not have to worry about unwanted children, but I'm so ugly I have to carry a package of hot dogs around so the dogs will notice me. Forget romantic encounters sickos...they're just interested in the hot dogs.

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There's always nice people looking for company so don't be so hard on your self, you never know when life could give you something to perk up about. Just a warning but my sister left her boyfriend of 15 years recently to date a older man, he had a vasectomy about 12 years ago after having three kids with his first wife. Their new daughter just turned two, need I say more. By the way, it was his and his fish were swimming, he went back in for another snip. If your going to use it get tested every couple of years. Good luck....

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Actually,my wife wanted to jump in bed and do it like rabbits...I was just outta the shower, and told her,"Sorry,I just washed my thing and can't do a hare with it..

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That's better than having her walk into the bath room and finding you sitting on the toilet with a messy hand wrapped around your thing making the age old claim, "I was just washing it when it went off", all the while grinning like a Jackalope in heat.

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: 48-50 mm, 51-53 mm, 54-56 mm. The Length of a typical condom is 19-20 cm (Indian ones are 18 cm)

So if you have a 50mm cannon you're really only a 1/2 shot

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I see you're very well schooled on this subject ace..

;o)

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gunnery sgt

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Ace,

Was that "Gunnery" or "Bunnery" sgt.???

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They tell me that there is a serial number printed right below the very top ring of every condom, which tells the manufacturer, the date, and the size...

Many have never rolled them down that far so have no clue that information is there? I didn't either.

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Hey ace.."Semper Fi!"

;o)

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I worked with a nurse who was a family planner, when the patient said her boyfriend wouldn't wear a condom because it didn't fit, she'd blow one up and say, "Is he bigger than this?" It was pretty funny.

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lol, that is pretty funny.

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wishful thinking....

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Indian Condoms that were distributed by the World health organization were 36 cm long, but they cut them in half to economise.

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I never liked them, it was like wearing a glove. But what the hey!

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If you don't like gloves, try mittens...

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Ouch! ... I should've seen that one comin'

:o/

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#4 is no myth.

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I agree, there's a big difference.

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All I can figure is that it was written by a chick.

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I disagree, more likely it was written by a virgin.

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That would explain # 4,,,

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Magnums cured #4 for me!...(it's a joke!)

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Trying to be a big shot are we?

I tried magnums but found them to restrictive and prone to breaking, a vet friend of mine gave me the ones they use for collecting samples from horses. lol

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They are also great for playing bedroom volleyball...

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All this time I thought they were used to fill with water, and throw at pedestrians!

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You never played full contact bed volleyball???

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not nice

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But soooo muchhhh fun.

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I wrote a comment on that site I am so sure will never be seen. It is "waiting moderation". That means because I didn't hang on the limb and hoot like a good little monkey they are not going to post my comment.

To summarize I said this: I do appreciate the use of condoms but that being said paranoia is not practicing safety. We are not all at the same risk and not just separated by being married. The choices we make, and our lifestyles put some of us at greater risk than others and leave some of us at no risk at all. Popular or not that is true. And there is absolutely no way to place a physical barrier between you and your partner without diminishing the sexual experience. That is like saying nothing changes when you put on a rubber glove.

At any rate I don't feel obligated to prevent people who live at risk from feeling stigmatized by acting as if I live at the same risk they do. I am not going to sacrifice because they have to.

There it is, I said it ... popular or not.

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