Female Condoms: What are they? How do they work?
Posted by Admin | Posted in Health, Sexual Relation | Posted on 24-10-2009-05-2008
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I remember being a junior in college and hearing about the female condom from my best friend and roommate, a staunch women’s activist. Only a few months earlier, she had excitedly alerted me of a cool new contraption that would allow women to pee standing up, so let’s just say that I was less than open to the idea of hearing about some hokey body-sized rubber that probably covered the woman from head to toe. I kept thinking, Well, of course it would protect a woman from getting pregnant; men would be running in the opposite direction at the sight of it. It wasn’t until recently that I was able to actually research female condoms to see what they are really all about, and you know what? They aren’t full body-sized. While female condoms have never proved to be extremely popular in the U.S., they are still available at many retail outlets and proven very effective against STDs. Read the rest of this entry »

