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Penis envy skews condom use

April 22 2011

A large minority of male condom users complain that ill-fitting prophylactics are liable to split and break during intercourse and be a sexual turnoff, researchers said on Tuesday. US investigators analysed questionnaires completed by 436 men between the ages of 18 and 67 who had been recruited via ads in newspapers and a blog on the website of a condom sales company. The volunteers had used condoms for vaginal intercourse in the previous three months. A remarkable 44.7 per cent of the respondents said they had experiences of condoms that were ill-fitting, the doctors found. Poorly-fitting condoms more than doubled the risk of breakage, slippage, erection loss and difficulty in reaching an orgasm, either by the user or his partner. They were also five times likelier to cause irritation of the penis. Such problems prompted many users to remove the condom before intercourse ended - a worrying phenomenon in the fight against unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted disease. The work is reported online by the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, published by the British Medical Association (BMA). The researchers, led by Richard Crosby and Bill Yarber at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Indiana, acknowledge that the study may have been limited by self-reported data. Even so, the evidence highlights some worrying problems about the use of condoms, especially as a barrier to sexual pleasure, which made using it a real deterrent for some. It also shows the need for "public health messages" to enjoin men to get the right size of condom, they said. On this point, men - and condom manufacturers - will have to deal with the delicate question of penis size, say the authors. For one thing, widespread pornography may have distorted the male self-image, making it harder for some men to accept that they have a less than gigantic member. "The old saying is, women don't have penis envy, men do," Yarber said.

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RHP User

15 years ago

"A large minority ....." When would a large MINORITY become a Majority??????? Sorry, couldnt remember the rest cause my poor brain got stuck on that statement.

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15 years ago

Yours spending way too much time reading and quoting when you need to be doing other things!!!!!

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15 years ago

If a man never ever had sex without a condom...he would never ever know the difference. Just saying..... Do they make them in your size Wags?

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15 years ago

Sexual pleasure is a method of dermal contact. When you use the condom penis could not directly contact with veginal wall where large nuber of sensory cells are conneted to the brain cells which give pleasure, the condom more than 90 percent stop the neuron spark that is the reason people now a days not full y satisfied with the sexual act and always feel hungry for sex. . And also other reason is the semen and veginal fluid has lots of mineral substance that work as a elctrolyte, when mixed together that creats ignition in neurons cells which give pleasure.So the fact is condom save from pregnencyand STI but there is no good sex life at all. Niarma

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15 years ago

I've been sick for the last week and I've looked up all sorts of shite on the internet. Just wondering whether that's the cause of the youngster's research addiction or whether he simply has nothing better to do. Actually, the thing about men getting false ideas about penis size from porn has been discussed in other forums too . . . . now where did I see that it.Keep it up waggy . . . . no pun intended . . . you are amusing me as I sit just slightly bored in my sick bed!

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