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OK I did a search and it was unhelpful besides a handful of people saying "UGH", seriously I need to know about this for a class! This is a survey, have you (or your partner) ever used a female condom? What were the circumstances (ie did you purchase them or was it a free sample)? What was it like (ie worse, better, the same compared to whatever you normally do)? Also did you use it more than once?

My only experience with female condoms is getting one as some kind of free sample at the newspaper and then laughing hysterically while a f riend of mine looped it up and down singing the "Slinky" commercial song! So I have no good response myself.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, I posted about this thing on the contraceptives c/d thread. It SUCKS. What do you need to know?

I only used it once, for scientific reasons. Like having someone do you through a sandwich bag.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

exactly true, except from my perspective it was like doing someone through a sandwich bag. my lady and I tried it out of scientific curiosity. Thumbs way, way way way down.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

1) Yes I have used one (actually I've used one twice, I think--but in both cases they were free samples and the other party was curious.)

2) It was kind of uncomfortable. The goofy ring on the outside was probably the worst part of it, but it's a lot more elaborate than a regular condom. It also kind of leaves you with the sensation that you are having sex in a plastic bag.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

oh, sorry -- yes we purchased it; no, we never used it more than once.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Tuna or PB &J?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

ham.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Basically what you just said--how many times you've used it (if you have), why you chose to, and what your opinion of it was. It is for a debate re: aids actually and the female condom came up as an "alternate means of disease control" and I think my professor almost spit on herself she got so mad about how gross female condoms are.

xpost ok so ziplock baggie is a general consensus I'm spotting here

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

i stole mine from a clinic

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I heard that a study indicated that it protected way less than male condoms from STDs.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

let me look that one up for you

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

they're not just gross, they're an elaborate pain in the ass, too -- hands down the worst form of birth/disease control I've experienced except abstinence.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

You've clearly never used THE FOAM then.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh man I'm getting nightmares just thinking about it now haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Those are maybe the most sinister capital letters ever written on ILE, Alex. I feel like you underwent some horrible scarring incident or something.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed

Medline may throw up some articles (dunno if the above link will go to teh quick search I did)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Suffice it to say Dan that those bedsheets WERE NEVER THE SAME AGAIN!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

(okay, PubMed)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3013904.html

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

has anyone ever really used cling film/saran wrap while orally pleasuring a woman? I remember in the early '90s people always talking about that, (was dental dam the term?) but I've never known anyone who actually hated themselves enough to do it.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

That was another point of needing surveying in our class actually, did anyone at all use dental dams, ever.

― Allyzay, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

no, of course not.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "zip-loc fetish" - did not match any documents.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

dental dams make colorful party decorations!

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

The question remains -- is fucking a sandwich bag still better than no fucking at all?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I have used a dental dam for three or so seconds. It sucked.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

"The question remains -- is fucking a sandwich bag still better than no fucking at all?"

If there is a vagina around the sandwich bag, then yes it is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

This is the thread where we call out other ilxors for having a sandwich bag in their vagina.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

If there is a penis inside the sandwich bag, then what's the matter?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

can you wash it out and reuse it?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

lunch was so 5 minutes ago

xpost

― kephm, Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

With all this talk of plastic bags, it makes me wonder: if the female condom is so bag-esque, could it be used in the place of plastic bags? Perhaps it would be more effective than a baggie for certain uses. Watch, now the weed dealer will start showing up with buds in those things instead of Ziplocs...

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Ally, are you an embedded guerilla marketer?

Never used the female condom ("femidom" it was called over here), but have used THE FOAM. Who'd have thought something so intimate would be so TOTALLY ALLERGENIC?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

In college, I went to a talk by I think a woman from the Our Bodies, Ourselves collective and she was totally enthusiastic about female condoms!

I have never used one. Or a dental dams.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Relatedly, does anyone use condoms during oral sex?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

There really should be a horror movie called THE FOAM!!!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

have used THE FOAM. Who'd have thought something so intimate would be so TOTALLY ALLERGENIC?

Did you RIDDLE WHILE FOAM BURNED?

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

They're less of a viable, user-friendly contraceptive and more of a political symbol.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Did you RIDDLE WHILE FOAM BURNED?

hahaha

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

the female condom is actually really useful for anal...i much prefered it to a regular condom...i mean we are two men, but still...

(i dont like anal btw)

― anthony, Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

!!!!! Ok I don't understand how that would work, Anthony, having come into contact with a female condom. it seems like it'd be more uncomfortable?

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

why is the female condom useful for anal?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.aidsmap.com/en/docs/A85BA23D-6F72-4CD2-90A4-D914A60BEF79.asp
it feels alot like barebacking, but it is safer

― anthony, Friday, 8 April 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

most things are.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 8 April 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost: How necessary is a dental dam? I've gone down on pretty much every woman I've ever been with, and I can't see how it wouldn't take all the fun out of the process.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

ally, could you tell any more details about your class? i'm just curious. i used to teach sex ed with planned parenthood for jr. high schools. it seems everything having to do with AIDS/sex info is so political that 'the facts' are impossible to come by. and it seems most ed. and advocacy groups have more to gain by blowing risks way out of proportion.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 8 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

ok!

To answer lolita's question from over a year ago, the class actually had minimally (ie nothing) to do with sex, it was a course on Harlem and the discussion that kicked off to the female condom thing was about the crack epidemic and its relation to the spread of AIDS within the community.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

They're less of a viable, user-friendly contraceptive and more of a political symbol.

i can't believe i ever said this

what about the male pill? does it exist outside speculative documentaries from the 1970s?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

There was someone on the today programme on Radio 4 saying that they'd tested something and had found out that fertility came back after three months, up to then they'd got the making men infertile thing down but weren't sure about the rest of it. They just need to get full clinical trials done but apparently this isn't a big honeypot of money for the drugs companies.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

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