subject: Essential Facts - Safe Sex and Condoms [print this page] All of this means you never know if someone has a disease or not, and we haven't even begun to talk about pregnancy yet.
Pros and Cons of Condoms
The truth is, if you are going to have sex outside of a committed relationship, you should use a condom every time, even if they hurt or cause discomfort in some way. They make all types of condoms so you should be able to find one that feels great. Wearing a condom during sex will help to protect you from many diseases, and they'll keep the woman from getting pregnant. That's what we're always told. Here are the facts.
Condoms don't always protect you from diseases. STDs are spread by skin to skin contact. Condoms rarely cover the entire penis, so there's still likelihood that the other person will become infected if, in fact, the person wearing the condom is infected. And wearing a condom doesn't even guarantee that a woman won't become pregnant. Condoms can break, form small tears, they can come off during sex, and a hundred other things can happen that result in infection or STD.
That being said, it is still better to wear a condom if you are going to have sex, or use a vibrator, than to not wear one at all. If abstinence isn't an option, then safety had better be.
