Condoms For Girls, to where? Options

[Joss-eh-lime]

I know about the condoms for guys...but how are there ones for girls? how do they work and stuff? hope im not being gross

[madchenallein]

Alright, I am going to put this up here and you can either profit by it, or have a laugh at my expense

First of all, a cervical cap or a diaphragm are totally different from the female condom (I'll just put FC after this). Neither of those protects against STDs while the FC does.

Next, here is a list of all the forms of contraception that I know of:
Quarterly shots (ie Depo-Provera)
Tubule inserts (good for five years)
IUD
birth control pills
male condom
Female condom
spermicide
sterilization
withdrawal
cervical cap/diaphragm

Lastly and the heart of the issue: all I know about the FC. I have tried one, so it's first hand, people.

The female condom costs about 3-5 dollars for one use, they are not reusable and they are usually made of latex, just like a male condom. You MUST read the instruction to insert it properly.

It is larger than a male condom. It basically looks like a cylindrical bag with a slightly larger, reinforced ring at one end and a smaller reinforced ring at the closed end. The rings look like a male condom does right after you take it out of the package and you see the sides all rolled up to make that fat 'O'. If I recall correctly, the box comes with a small amount of lubricant in case you need it to insert the FC more easily, but I could be mistaken on that one.

What you do is open the package the same way you open a male condom and remove the FC. You hold the 'O' of the closed end in your fingers, and pinch it, to make it look more like and '8', your thumb and index fingers should make kind of a pinched 'C' shape. You then insert this up inside your vagina as far as you can, trying to seat it around your cervix. The larger 'O' hangs down out of your body, so that it protects at least your inner labia and you should try to secure that end during intercourse so that the man's penis does not thrust between the wall of your vagina and the FC, rather than into that larger ring and then inside you.

My opinion: This thing is VERY difficult to put in properly. You may insert it several hours before intercourse and I suggest that you do if you're going to use the FC. Also, do not wait to learn how to use it properly until the day or night you want to have sex using the FC.

This thing looks very odd. So odd I was totally deterred from using it for sex. I tried the thing on, felt very uncomfortable with it, aesthetically, not physically, and took it out. However, it does not hurt.

I do not think it is a good product for most women. HOWEVER, I will say that I am the type of woman who feels that my sexual health is in MY control, not my partner's, and I have no problem carrying around a male condom. I would not leave that important issue up to someone else who may or may not have had the forethought to bring one, or two, hey, things break. While I am mentioning all this, some of you may have read one or more of my other posts and I don't want to give you the wrong impression, this isn't something I do now, but an experience from my past.

Anyway, hope you learned something. I sure did that day! Lol!

-Oh yes, and you cannot use both a male condom and a female condom, that is addressed in the faqs in the instructions that come with the FC, the two condoms will either unseat each other or break, one or both.-