Using a female condom

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Last night Sarah Weddington gave a talk at my university, and our Students for Choice group set up a table there. We get a bunch of stuff from Planned Parenthood, but this time around we had gotten a BUNCH of female condoms. I had never seen one before, nor had the majority of people there. Luckily someone from PP explained to me how to use one, and I ended up carrying the condom around in my pocket all night, and giving demonstrations! A lot of people had never seen them. So I brought one home to show the boyfriend, and I decided to post a "tutorial" here. This is very picture heavy! And just to note, both condoms were lubed, so my hands are rather shiny here.

First off, here is the pack that they came in:



And here it is, compared to an average size male condom.



It has a less rubbery feel than a typical male latex condom, and a more thin plastic-y feel. I had to unroll the male condom, but the female condom is already this way. It does have one rolled end, but in th other end there is a flexible plastic ring that comes out.





This is how it looks, held up, with the ring in the bottom. And the black furry thing is Socrates, the cat. I tried pushing him away, but every time I did the lube attracted so much cat fur to my hands I just gave up. :-p

To insert the condom, you have the flexible ring in the condom, like you see in the picture above. And then you squeeze the ring together, or in a figure 8.



You then take the figure-eighted condom end, and insert it into the vagina like a tampon.



(Ignore the burnmarks on my hand.. way too much baking in a way too small kitchen)



You push the end of the condom up into the vagina, and the ring springs open to hold it in there, and it should look like this. The plastic protects the other bits from fluids.

After sex, you take the outer ring and twist it.



To lock all of the fluids inside. And then pull the condom out.



Ta da! And there you have a female condom. Apparently they are redesigning them, because they haven't caught on. But I figured that I would post this, so if anyone ran across a point that they needed to use one, they might have an idea - the instructions on the back of the package are really vague!

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[indigodye.livejournal.com]

It really feels like a hefty bag. And I really couldn't imagine saying "HEY, hold on for a second while I put this in my cooter."

But, if it's the only option available, I might think a lot differently.