Male Condoms for Safe Sex
February 23, 2009 by Jack
Sex is one of the basic requirements of all living being. It gives mental relaxation as well as pleasure to all of us. But due to lack of proper care, sometimes contagious diseases spread from one partner to the other during sexual intercourse. So to avoid this one should always use condoms for safer sex. It also prevents pregnancies.
The male condom is a cylindrical bag-like structure that fits snugly over the penis. It has a pouch on the anterior end, where the seminal discharge collects after ejaculation. It has a hardened rim at the base where it
remains fit on the penis shaft. The condom generally has lubrication on it so that it could maintain greater contact with the penis, and also provide better friction with the female vagina.
The male condom is designed to fit over the erect penis. In order to put a condom, the penis has to be made erect first by sexual stimulation. Then the pouch of the condom must be placed over the glans. The condom
must then be slowly unfurled over the length of the penis, till as far as it can go. Ideally, it must be pulled till the scrotal sac. Once the condom is worn, it must not be moved much, but used directly for penetrative sexual intercourse.
When the man ejaculates, the pouch gets filled with the seminal discharge. Hence, care must be taken while removing the condom also. Otherwise, the semen may fall on the vagina, which could lead to a pregnancy. After the ejaculation, the penis must be removed from the vagina. The condom must be slowly extracted from over the penis, holding it away from the vagina, and squeezing at the top of the pouch so that there is no chance of the semen falling anywhere and soiling the sheets or the floor. A used condom must be disposed in the waste paper basket. A condom once used must never be reused, even after washing it.
If used correctly, condoms are the best way to prevent pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. There are cases, in which people cite failure of condoms, but the fact is that the condom itself does not fail; the
failure is due to the way it is used. Sometimes people do not take the condom all the way to the base of the penis shaft, due to which there is a risk of the condom coming off in the vagina and spilling its contents into it.
Condoms are the safest way to fight STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). So, though the condoms are used on an individual level to avoid pregnancies, at a global level, they are used to combat against sexually transmitted diseases.
