When Can A Condom Leak From The Base

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condom breakage, leak, cost

Hi Dr. Joel My girlfriend is a Jewish American Princess. She insists I use a suede condom. Can a suede condom break orleak? And can I buy them at bulk discount?...

Response from Joel Gallant, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Just as your girlfriend probably has a swimming suit that isn't supposed to get wet, the suede condom is strictly for show. It looks quite sporting at cockail parties, but latex is the only way to go once you get going.(In other words,... Read more »

Leaking condom

If a condom does leak, is the male or female at risk for HIV or other STD's? AFter I had sex... Read more »

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H. »

leaked condom

after ejaculating. i took of my penis from her vagina immediately. i didnt took off the condom... Read more »

Response from Shannon Southall »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Rates of Condom and Non-Condom-Based Anal Intercourse Practices Among Homosexually Active Men in Australia: Deliberate HIV Risk Reduction?

"Three decades into the HIV epidemic and with the advancement of HIV treatments, condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse among gay men in resource-rich countries needs to be re-assessed," the authors wrote to introduce the current study. The... Read more »

India-Based Company to Begin Selling Female Condoms; Government Considering Subsidizing Them for Sex Workers

India-based Hindustan Latex on Friday said it will begin selling female condoms in the country next month to help curb the spread of HIV, the Associated Press reports. M. Ayyappan, managing director of Hindustan Latex, said the company initially... Read more »

School-Based Condom Education and Its Relations With Diagnoses of and Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men in the United States

The study's authors note that potential associations between school-based condom education and sexual health outcomes, including STD diagnoses, are not well understood. In the current study, sexually active men over age 18 were asked whether they... Read more »

New York Sun Examines New York City's Internet-Based Condom Distribution Campaign

The New York Sun on Tuesday examined the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 's condom distribution program, which supplies more than 1.5 million condoms monthly at no cost via a Web site as part of an initiative to curb the... Read more »

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condom spilling at the base

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Is this possible? I always used protection but he never held it the base when pulling out all these other websites suggest this as safe sex....................Now, I'm even more scared..........

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Condom and pinhole question

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I found this one a fact sheet that someone else on here had posted:

Laboratory studies generally have found that viruses do not pass through intact latex condoms,
even when the devices are stretched and stressed. While intact condoms prevent the... Read more »

Oil leak?

Posted by Atrorewow

You may have heard about the colossal oil leak outside of the Gulf. Do you think this may have a sizeable damaging impact on our animal population close to Mexico? Read more »

REuse of a slipped off condom on withdrawal

Posted by Noctis_21

Any of these are risks?

I had sex about a month ago and one in December I think, both protected but wondering if there were risks in my actions. The first encounter I gave her oral only for like 20 seconds and had scabs on the corner of my finger.... Read more »

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