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Once you’ve rounded third and started heading for the score, it’s generally wise to practice safe sex. But before you get to that point, whip out this sheet of frightening facts about condoms to review with your significant other. It will most likely scare the bejesus out of both of you, and the night will end with you watching Vampire Diaries with a serious case of blue balls instead. But hey, that’s the safest sex there is.
1. According to a recent CDC report, only 30 percent of single women with multiple partners have used condoms in the past month. Only 20 percent of single women reported “always” using them over the past year. So fellas, if you are going in without a holster for your gun, odds are some other cowboy has done the same thing not too long ago.
2. Before use, a condom is considered 98 percent effective, but because of misuse and expiration dates, they’re actually only around 80 percent effective in the end. That means 18 percent of men have either put it on incorrectly, thus negating its purpose of protecting from transmission, or waited long past the expiration date (because they’ve been carrying it around in their wallet since grade school).
3. Standard condoms are made mostly latex, but a small percentage – less than two percent – have included animal bladders and lamb intestines, for all you vegan nymphomaniacs.
4. Oil based products can dissolve condoms (hand cream, lipstick, Vaseline and baby oil). It’s best to stick to water-based lubricants if things get a little dry in the heat of the night.
5. A possible origin of the word “condom” is the Latin word “condus,” meaning receptacle.
6. A reported nine percent of men have admitted to ripping their condoms purposefully.
7. More than two million boxes of condoms (with major brand names) were produced in foreign countries and released into the markets as illegal knockoffs before getting seized. That’s either the greatest or worst scam of all time.
8. Drugs and alcohol weaken the immune system, making you more susceptible to risk, thus the need for condoms — especially when you’re having trouble getting it up.
9. Japan once had condoms derived from turtle shells (ouch) and another type made of leather.
10. Ladies, 80 percent of guys have admitted in surveys that they will attempt not to use a condom, if they can get away without having one. In related news, more than 110 million STDs were reported in the U.S. according to the Center for Disease Control back in 2013.
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Frightening Fact Bonus
Double-baggers beware: If you use two condoms at once to be extra safe, you’re actually increasing your risk because extra friction can cause tearing of the condom.
