The first references to condoms are dated to about the year 3000 before Christ. There is a legend about Minos the King of Crete and his wife Pasiphae. The king was full of love and used to change his lovers endlessly. Having learned this, the queen put a curse on her husband. Since then at each time of intimacy with a new lady the king ejaculated a stream of poisonous snakes and scorpions that bit the poor girl to death. The rumors of the king’s strange peculiarities were rapidly spread all around, and a number of girls who want to sleep with him have certainly gone down drastically. The creative...

Making love without condom and safe sex are mutually exclusive concepts. However despite possible consequences, many couples do practice unprotected sex. But why do people take the risk? What kind of threat does unprotected sex carry us?

Why it is necessary to use a condom

Condoms protect sexual partners from venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancy by 97%, which is not the case with unprotected sex. Many people, especially young, hazard all consequences of such dangerous games. Unprotected sex supporters risk their safety and health for the sake of pleasure. They are convinced that all condoms re...

The key function of a condom today is protection against sexually transmitted diseases, including human immune deficiency virus (HIV). It was scientifically found that immune deficiency virus may be transmitted by blood, sperm, vaginal discharge, mother’s milk and other fluids of the human body (urine, saliva, tears, and sweat). Quite a lot of time may pass from HIV ingress to AIDS development (about 15 years), and during that time a man is often unaware of being a HIV carrier and, respectively, a spreader.

A medicine against AIDS does not exist at the moment, which means that it is necessary to...

Pluses

The main advantage of condom, as you know, is prevention not only from unwanted pregnancy, but also from sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV-infection.

In addition, a condom is one of the most available and relatively cheap remedy requiring no special training and used immediately before the sexual act.

It has no serious contraindications and is therefore recommended by our gynecologists to those women who cannot for a range of reasons use hormonal and intrauterine contraception. Condom is the most easy-to-use contraceptive among all the barrier methods.

In addition, it should also be...