Everywhere I find on the internet says that condoms, when used properly and don’t break, are only 98% effective.
That means if you have sex once a week you’re just as well off as having no protection once a year.
Are 2% of condoms randomly selected to have holes poked in them?
What’s going on?
In: Biology
Often condoms fail due to user error. At times it’s using an oil lubricant that’s not compatible with latex. To see this you can blow up a condom then rub some baby oil on it. In other cases, it’s people failing to stop when there’s clearly too much friction. Some of the biggest user errors come in the forms of men wanting to wear condoms that are too large or someone not rolling the condom all the way down.
Obviously there’s also the possibility of a manufacturing defect as well.
It’s important to realize that a 98% success rate doesn’t mean you’ll have 2 breaks for every 100 times you use one.
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