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Condens have been around for a long time, and condoms work pretty well.

There are those stats around condoms failure rates, so 15 to 18 percent.

Those are when people use them incorrectly.

And a lot of people do use them incorrectly.

People joke about sex ed programs where they're rolling the condom onto the bananas as if that's not obvious, as if it's not something any idiot could do. But clearly, there are a lot of idiots out there who can't do it. And maybe proper condom application does need to be a part of the sex ed program. And we should stop rolling our eyes when the lady from Planned Parenthood stands in front of the room and grips the tip and rolls the condom down under the banana correctly because so many people, when you look at the failure rate for condoms, aren't able to do it correctly.

They put it on backwards.

They don't leave enough air room in the tip by squeezing the tip as you roll a condom on that the condom breaks because the guy basically ends up thrusting his way out of it, pushing his way through it. Or people don't hold the condom when they're pulling out. Or they ejaculate inside the condom and stay. And then their dick begins to deflate and the semen leaks out. There's a lot of ways in which people use the condom wrong. the standard reliable condoms used correctly are hugely effective and not just effective at preventing pregnancy, but also STI transmission.

Condoms, very effective protection against gonorrhea, extremely effective against HIV transmission.

Very effective against syphilis, not transmission. Very effective.

Against syphilis.

Not perfect.

Very effective against transmitting herpes.

Not perfect.

Those skin-to-skin transmissions where there may be sores involved, like SIF or herpes.

Condoms offer a great deal of protection, but not absolute protection, not as much production as they might provide for gonorrhea or HIV. But condoms, they're awesome and people should use them, but people bitch about them. And bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch and bitch. And we've covered the bitching on this show. And you know how I feel about the people who bitch about condoms. I feel like they are full of shit. Here's my tip for people who, oh, I can't feel anything with a condom. What you need to do is put the condom on early. You don't put the condom on right before you thrust into someone. You don't put the condom on right at the moment where you want to penetrate. You put the condom on a bit before so the condom can come up to dick temperature, right? Because then it's not going to be this massive decrease in sensation. Also, acclimate yourself to condoms. Reconcile yourself to condoms first. You're going to have to use these, okay? Then acclimate to them, which means masturbating with them. Put a condom on and jerk it. Realize that condoms are your friend. If you have a parent, if you're a young person and you have access to condoms at school and you have a crazy sex negative mom who's going to blow her stack if your socks are crusty or your t-shirt is basically cardboard when she picks it up off the floor or one of her hand towels goes missing, a condom. You can jack off in a condom and put your load in there and tie it off and put it in your pocket and take it back to school, now full, and throw it away.

Pretty effective, right? And my ultimate retort always to people who say, I can't feel the condom, nobody notices when the condom breaks.

Guys are fucking, the same guy who five minutes before you made him put the condom on was saying that he can't feel anything with the condom on.

There's so much less sensation with the condom.

The sex's hardly worth having.

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