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Condom
Testing Reveals
The Best Brands
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The
nonprofit Consumers Union rated which condoms measure
up best and how other birth control methods compare. One
important result was that all models met international
standards.
The
top brand also took the most punishment- the Durex Extra
Sensitive Lubricated Latex condom. Other top-performers
included the Durex Performax Lubricated, Lifestyles Classic
Collection Ultra Sensitive Lubricated and TheyFit Lubricated.
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The
Consumers Union uses standardized tests to rate the products
it examines, which for latex condoms involves filling them with
air. There is no accepted method to test silicon or non-latex
condoms. They can balloon 3 feet tall and a foot wide so where
they stop is still not a standard at that level of stretch.
The
New York-based organization, which publishes the Consumer Reports
magazine, also tested 16 other contraceptive choices. "Condoms
remain the only family planning and pregnancy prevention method
that can help prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including
HIV, which causes AIDS," the group, which has issued similar
reports on condoms periodically since 1979, said in a statement.
"Condoms
have improved since the mid-nineties because industry manufacturing
standards have become more universally used and more effective,"
added Edward Kippel, who led the condom test project.
Intrauterine
devices or IUDs have also become safer than in previous years,
as have birth control pills, including so-called emergency contraception,
the group said. While abstinence has a 0 percent failure rate,
doing nothing to prevent pregnancy has an 85 percent failure
rate, the group found. A U.S. government report published last
month shows 98 percent of all US women who have had sex have
used birth control which is not an indication of using it consistently
when they should.
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