contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
condom
How to use condom in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for condom.
Editorial note
"It's like a condom. I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it but not have it."
Quick take
contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for condom.
noun
contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
See also: rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic
Example sentences
"It's like a condom. I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it but not have it."
Men, on the other hand, would love to not use a condom. And men don't get pregnant.
Why would someone be offended by the word "condom" ?
In Sweden you get to put a condom on a realistic dildo. I was 12.
I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. That was probably your first mistake.
It does lose the context of the lawyer continuing on that Assange eventually did find and use a condom.
A 1% increase in condom usage can have massive impact on the health and safety of millions of people. It's another straw we can add to the camel's back.
I'd pay decent money for a small, neat little power-only USB passthrough/condom for peace of mind. Hotel clocks, planes, there's all sorts of places I'd like to charge my phone and every time it feels like a risk.
Is the low rate of condom use really related to the time demands of putting one on? I've seen a few things like this and it seems rather more likely that any reason like that is dwarfed by cultural ones.
In England and Wales it is perfectly possible to say, "I consent to having sex to you if you use a condom". As such, if a condom has not been used, consent has not been given, and sex without consent is rape.
Isn't most non-condom birth control primarily intended for couples? All the other types prevent pregnancy only.
If Assange did indeed force intercourse without the use of a condom, then I'm all for him being charged. Although this still seems at odds with the publicly observed personal interactions that continued for days after the alleged events.
If condom usage dropped even a small amount as a result of this test, it could considerably worsen the epidemic. From a public health perspective this could be a terrible, terrible disaster.
To suggest that video games should more realistically depict war is to suggest that we should practice applying a condom to a dildo rather than a cucumber. It doesn't prepare anyone to lose their virginity but it does increase the comfort with going down that road.
Aside from the STD issue, a condom is a contraception method that is instantly verifiable." It's okay baby, I have had the invisible sperm destroying procedure" is a bit harder to check.
The ones who somehow were sponsored to attend college for free, but failed out because of too much World of Warcraft, or couldn't figure out how to operate a condom and ended up with 3 kids they couldn't care for. Pondering these folks, I suspect that the "Marshmallow Effect" is a real problem for them.
It suggests a fascinating application, which is to wear a graphene condom, on top of a rubber condom, on top of a graphene condom. Thus creating a condom 'super capacitor' [1] that you would charge up by rubbing it, which could then power a piezo electric vibrator.
I might be wrong but there is a slight difference between not wearing a condom and rape. I don't care if Sweden is calling consensual sex without condom rape. In Assange's case, he allegedly sabotaged his condom with one woman and allegedly refused to wear a condom with another one but he did not have sex with them against their will.
Here's the testimony from Assange's own lawyers: He described Assange as penetrating one woman while she slept without a condom, in defiance of her previously expressed wishes, before arguing that because she subsequently consented to continuation of the act of intercourse, the incident as a whole must be taken as consensual. In the other incident, in which Assange is alleged to have held a woman down against her will during a sexual encounter, Emmerson offered this summary: [The complainant] was lying on her back and Assange was on top of her [she] felt that Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina directly, which she did not want since he was not wearing a condom she therefore tried to turn her hips and squeeze her legs together in order to avoid a penetration [she] tried several times to reach for a condom, which Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without using a condom. [She] says that she felt about to cry since she was held down and could not reach a condom and felt this could end badly.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use condom in a sentence?
"It's like a condom. I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it but not have it."
What does condom mean?
contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
What part of speech is condom?
condom is commonly used as noun.