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Ever thought of flushing your condom? Better not do that in reality!
Flushing condoms is not the way to deal with them. Condoms can clog the plumbing in your house (or the plumbing wherever you happen to be). This can be an expensive and embarrassing situation. If the condom manages to make it through [...]

What kind of safeguards do condom manufacturers have in place?
All brand name condoms are subjected to rigorous quality control tests at every stage of the manufacturing process. In the US, each condom is electronically tested for holes and defects. Samples are taken from each lot and visually examined using a water leak test. In this [...]

This was the time when the need for a term to define the difference between “protected” and “unprotected” sexual acts arose. Barebacking as a practice is declared to have become increasingly particularly again for same sex in the mid-1990s. Reasons for this are diverse, and include correlations based on: an “upswing” in the level of [...]

Before the mainstream wakefulness of HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, anal sex with and without condoms was not as widespread in communications among men who had sex with the same sex. Sexually transmitted disease (STD) deterrence campaigns persuaded condom use but an importance arose once spread of HIV/AIDS was somewhat understood. Researchers promoted condom usage [...]