Talk:condom

Etymology... maybe?

1706, traditionally named for a British physician during reign of Charles II, but there is no evidence for that. Also spelled condam, quondam, which suggests it may be from It. guantone, from guanto "a glove." --70.112.108.51 03:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

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I removed this section of the definition because it was redundant and because I wasn't sure of it's accuracy:

• and to prevent transmitting sexually transmittable diseases and pregnancy.

If memory serves, a condom is for birth control only and not for prevention of STD; I mean, can you not still get AIDS even with condom use? Let's be 100% sure before putting this back in the definition, please. --Stranger 03:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, you can, but it's mainly due to a bad condom usage. There're currently ads in France telling to use condoms to avoid AIDS.

Condoms are definitely recommended to avoid STDs like AIDS. Otherwise, gay men wouldn't be constantly being told to use condoms in anal sex; they're hardly going to get anyone pregnant that way. —Angr 16:03, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Another idea

It just occurred to me that a few words starting with con- have the prefix be- in Dutch with a similar word. Such as conjure - bezweren (zweren = to swear, like swearing an oath such as a 'jury'). So I'm just stating this off the top of my head here, but couldn't 'condom' be from con- and 'domus'? A housing (behuizing in Dutch)? Does kinda make sense to me, but of course I'm no expert.

missing sense

We are missing the female condom sense. ---> Tooironic 00:36, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

indirect definition

I find it amusing that the definition currently given does not mention sex. Presumably an alien would assume men wear condoms all year long as a general precautionary measure. ---> Tooironic 13:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

I've made some tweaks to the definition now. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)