THE FEMALE CONDOM: WHAT IS A FEMALE CONDOM?
A female condom looks like a large, loose male condom but it has two big flexible rings, one at the closed end and one around the open end. It is about 17cm long, and is wider than the male condom. It is made of polyurethane, which is a soft clear plastic, whereas the male condom is made of latex rubber. Each female condom comes already lubricated with a silicone-based lubricant.
You wear the female condom inside your vagina like a second skin. You use the ring at the closed end to help you slide the female condom into your vagina. The ring at the open end fits flat against your vulva, which is the area around your vagina. It is possible to remove the inner ring and use the female condom like a baggy male condom.
Are there different types of female condoms? Right now, there is only one type of female condom available in Australia and it is called the female condom, which isn’t hard to remember. It comes in only one size and it can fit anyone.
How do female condoms work? Because the female condom forms a barrier that is like a second skin inside the vagina, when the man comes, the semen that has sperm in it stays inside the female condom. Sperm cannot get to the opening in the cervix and up into the Fallopian tubes to meet an egg so you don’t get pregnant
How effective are female condoms? The female condom is rated at about 88 to 98 percent effective. That means if 100 women used the female condom as their method of contraception for one year, between two and 12 of them would have an unplanned pregnancy. You can see that if you use the female condom absolutely correctly every single time you have sex, it can be 98 percent effective—so if you are committed to using it, it is very effective.
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