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Rolling it the wrong way, not rolling it all the way down, not rolling it correctly which leads to more frequent tearing when air is caught at the end.

And one of the most common issues buying the largest size available even when you don't have a 12" as thick as drink can tool.

While it's been 16-17 years since I had a sexed class i still remember the girl who came and told us to buy regular or even ("small") since it was still when I was 14-15 then she took a the smallest size Durex and rolled it over a 2 liter soda bottle and said unless you are bigger don't buy magnum super XL.

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Just because they can stretch that much doesn't mean they're comfortable.

I know I had issue finding a good size in Hong Kong before and I'm not adult film star endowed by any stretch of the imagination.

That said in the west you are likely not going to be needing magnum sizes either.

The regular size is well within average girth and we'll over the average length the regular size for most brands is 18-19cm from the base ring to the tip(there are ISO standards for Condoms :)), unless you are measuring yourself from your anus you aren't likely to need anything longer than that.

Plus just rolling it over a 2 liter bottle doesn't account for the physical side of what's going on. You can stretch a condom pretty far, but that does not say anything about how it stands up to friction. If a condom is too tight, it will break on you.

I hate talking about this because people just assume I'm lying, but... I've had normal sized condoms break on me a couple times, it's frightening. Magnums do not break on me, and fit much better, so that's what I use (the XLs are too big). I just don't fit safely in a normal sized condom, it doesn't matter one bit that I can fit them over a bottle.

It's fine to use a Magnum I you actually need it, Western condoms tend to be 51-54mm in width for non Magnum sizes and 56-59 for magnums if you actually need it by all means use it but for most people the normal ones will be the best fit.

In other places it might be different I know people think that Asian thing is a trope but it's not Durex reduces the width from 54 to 49mm for the Asian market which is a bitch.

Maybe the condom companies should just market the same size condom under the Magnum XL label. Then guys could feed their egos and still have a condom that fits.

It would just result in people not using condoms. The purpose of the magnum is that people want more room within the condom for sensation and they want less constriction. They're not feeding their ego, they feeding their pleasure.

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