Men 'need better-fitting condoms' (BBC)

Badly fitted condoms do not just reduce the pleasure of sex for men and women - they raise the risks of infection and pregnancy, researchers say.

Men are twice as likely to take the condom off midway through sex due to a poor fit, a poll of 436 men in Sexually Transmitted Infections journal reveals.

Ill-fitting condoms more than doubled the chances of them splitting or slipping off, a Kentucky team found.
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{In Africe} Unlike in Europe and the US, the variety of sizes and shapes of condoms is not available to most men - she told of some resorting to tying an oversized condom on with string, or preferring to use the female condom because regular size versions were so painful.

She said: "I think that the unwillingness of African men to use condoms has been overstated, and that many more would be willing to wear one if they were more comfortable.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8516654.stm

Such a "little thing" can have such a large impact on health and the environment ...

It's relative.

I have never secretly wished for a smaller one.....


:shrug:

mark

Apologies to Carl Fredrich Gauss and the bell curve......

Guess it's like Goldilocks....too big, too little and just right. :D