How to use Male and Female condoms?

Here are some brief step by step tips on how to properly utilize male and female condoms.

Male condoms

• Carefully open the wrapper and take out the condom.

• Place it on the tip/head of your fully erect penis.
• Pinch the air out of the tip of the condom.
• Unroll it all the way down your penis.
• When sex is finished, hold the condom in place at the base of your penis while you pull out.
• Remove it and throw it in the trash
Female condoms
• Carefully open the wrapper and take out the condom.
• Get in a comfortable position, such as standing with one foot on a chair or squatting.
• Squeeze the sides of the inner ring at the closed end of the condom.
• Insert the condom into your vagina like you would a tampon.
• Push the condom in as far as it will go, until it rests against your cervix. The outer ring will hang
outside your body slightly.
• Use your hand to guide your partner’s penis into the condom.
• When sex is finished, twist the outer ring and pull it out. Throw it in the trash.
Notable tips on Condom usage

Tips for Proper Male Condom Use

• You can put a male condom on at any time before or during sex.
• Make sure you don’t tear the condom when you open the package.
• Throw it out if it’s brittle, stiff, sticky, or expired.
• Use a new one every time. That means for every erection.
• If the condom doesn’t have a reservoir tip, pinch the end to leave about a half inch of space to
collect the semen when you ejaculate.
• If you feel it break or tear during sex, stop right away, pull out, and put on a new condom.
Tips for Proper Female Condom Use

• You should insert the condom before you plan to have sex.
• Put lubricant on the outside of the closed end to help it go in easier.
• Make sure the condom doesn’t get twisted when you put it in.
• Stop if you feel your partner’s penis slipping between the condom and your body, if the outer-ring
gets pushed into your body, or if you feel the condom slip out of place.
Condom Effectiveness
How well a condom works depends a lot on whether you it is used efficiently in the right way. When
used properly, male condoms are about 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. This means that in one
year, 2 out of every 100 women whose partners always use condoms correctly will get pregnant. That
number rises to 18 out of every 100 women whose partners don’t use the condom correctly every
time.
Female condoms are about 95% effective when used properly. They work only 79% of the time if you
don’t use them right.
Condoms also greatly lower the chances that one person will pass a sexually transmitted diseases (STD) to
the other. The exact risk varies by the type of disease. For example, condoms are almost 100% effective at
protecting against HIV. But HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease, can infect areas that a
male condom doesn’t cover, like the scrotum. Condoms lower the risk of HPV infection, but they don’t get
rid of it.