How to use a condom properly — avoid breakage or slippage
Some thing found use full hence sharing here for benefits of all
Before you put a condom on:
Store condoms in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
Check the expiration date on the condom.
Do a pillow test — does the air stay in the package?
Tear the condom package carefully — without using your teeth — to open.
If the condom looks damaged, discolored, or brittle, do not use.
Add a drop of lube inside the condom for extra pleasure.
To put a condom on:
With one hand, pinch the tip of the condom to leave room for the ejaculate.
With the other hand, roll the condom to the base of the penis or object.
Continue using this hand to guide any air bubbles out of the condom.
Add lube to the outside of the condom to avoid excess friction that may cause breakage.
After the action:
Hold the base of the condom as you pull out to avoid slippage.
Remove the condom and throw away in the trash, not the toilet.
Hope someone will find this info useful.
Cheers!
Antibiotic resistant Gonorrhea
Did anyone hear about this antibiotic resistant strain of Gonorrhea they found in Japan? Anyone else having second thoughts about barebacking, or is it just me?
[url]http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/1023285--gonorrhea-superbug-resistant-to-all-antibiotics[/url]
A superbug strain of gonorrhea that's resistant to all available antibiotics has been discovered in Japan, posing a potential threat to public health worldwide, infectious disease experts say.
An international team of researchers identified the highly drug-resistant strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae — the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection — through genetic analysis.
Dubbed H041, the strain has extreme resistance to all cephalosporin-class antibiotics, the last remaining drugs still effective in treating gonorrhea.
'This is both an alarming and a predictable discovery, ' researcher Dr. Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, said in a statement. 'Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it.
'While it is still too early to assess if this new strain has become widespread, the history of newly emergent resistance in the bacterium suggests that it may spread rapidly unless new drugs and effective treatment programs are developed, ' said Unemo, who presented the team's findings Monday at the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research meeting in Quebec City.
A spokesman for the Public Health Agency of Canada said the federal agency is not aware of any cases of H041 strain in this country.
Gonorrhea is one of the most common STIs in the world and can cause infertility, increase HIV transmission, and have profound effects on infants born to infected mothers, including blindness. Left untreated, the disease can be fatal.
Dr. Vanessa Allen, a medical microbiologist at the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, said she's not surprised by the emergence of a superbug gonorrhea strain because the infectious agent is known to exchange genetic material with other organisms in the genital tract, which helps confer resistance.
There's been a long history of Neisseria gonorrhoeae losing its susceptibility to drugs used to treat it, including the penicillin class of antibiotics first introduced about 70 years ago.
'And, in fact, we're now on the fifth or six class of antimicrobials, ' Allen said Monday from Quebec City, where she was attending the conference.
Cephalosporins, which are administered in pill or a more potent intravenous form, are the latest to lose their ability to wipe out infection caused by the new strain.
With no alternative drugs in the pharmaceutical pipeline, 'the concern is that we'll go to potentially an era where it will be like the pre-antibiotic era, ' she said. 'So people again will see consequences of chronic gonorrhea infection that are associated with neonatal infections, infertility and those things. '
Gentlemen, use the FEMALE CONDOM!
[QUOTE=Hortense;1250847]I've finally gone and caught Genital Herpes. * * * My only purpose for this post is to help others on this board by suggesting how this happened. The two bumps were located exactly where the bottom of my condom is situated. So either her hand or her lips or her pussy touched that area. * * * The only advice going forward then is to ensure that the condom is rolled down [i]as far as possible[/i] And to stop any constant rubbing where the tight unrolled part of the condom presses against the penis. That's for us all-condom-all-the-time guys. You BBBJers are on your own.[/QUOTE]This report illustrates particularly well why repeatedly in the Safe Sex section of the International Sex Guide and elsewhere I urge everybody to use FEMALE CONDOMS: The standard male condom leaves the base of your penis unprotected, leaving you vulnerable to any STD that goes through skin such as herpes, syphilis, or genital warts. The female condom protects the [u]entire[/u] Penis (P should be lowercase*) because the larger of the two loops stays on the outside of the woman's body. The smaller loop [u]inside[/u] The (ditto, should be lowercase "t") condom can be removed (use a clean finger you have not touched her genitals with) and the female condom placed on the penis before intercourse like a male condom. Often the female condom sticks to the inside of the vagina more than to the penis, so you're sliding back and forth inside the female condom feeling friction as well as pressure. Standard male condoms usually ruin the sensation because you feel no friction, only pressure. Another advantage of the female condom is you don't have that super tight still-rolled part of the condom hurting your penis like tourniquet. But the most important advantage of the female condom is vastly superior STD protection.
*The "P" in penis and "T" in "the" should be lowercase, but this web site's software repeatedly changes it to uppercase, apparently after each use of underline. The software of this web site also wipes out my ellipses, requiring the use of asterisks (* * *) , with spaces between the asterisks, to indicate where I omitted quoted text. This web site's software also changes the reporter's dashes into periods and then capitalizes the next letter. It also changes the letter between "t" and "v" into "you", changing what the reporter wrote.
