I am against them in this line of work. The average failure rate is 21% which is astronomical considering the risks and liability you are opening yourself up to.
Originally Posted by Brooke Wild
well. Maybe we should read this other study too...
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3109405.html
"...the women used 7,895 female condoms and 12,253 male condoms. In all, 0.1% of female condoms broke, and 6% slipped (in 3% of cases, the condom slipped out of the vagina; in 3%, the outer ring of the device slipped in). Three percent of male condoms broke, and 1% slipped off the penis. The researchers used logistic regression to assess factors associated with condom failure, controlling for a range of user characteristics measured at baseline and over time..."
i guess from this, in terms of safety, male condoms break 2,900% more often than the female ones. Only issue i have is, i always want me to be in control of the protection piece and not have to think about it again. Plus, it took more than just training for me to learn how a condom break sounds like and how to watch for it, i am not too sure i will know how that happens with female condoms though and based on the study, it takes apprx 18 tries to get to the low 0.1% failure rate and am not too sure i want to try 18 times at an 8% failure rate, that means, on average, atleast i will have one failure for breakage, and additional failures from wrong usage.
To each his own but am sticking to the trusted and true way, and yeah, i love the look of a bare vagina and don't mind the look of a covered penis, so i would rather not use em. That is my 0.2 cents of thought.