WORLD BANK PANELLIST ON HIV / AIDS

CONDOM CONSULTANT

 Dr.D. Usha Rani, M.B.B.S., D.O.,

Vibrating Condom

•  Condoms

• Vibrators

•  Condom + Vibrator together in a pack

•  Vibrating Condoms

Vibrators

Ring Vibrators, Sting Vibrators, Penile Vibrators, Dildo Vibrators, Double Dildo Vibrators etc.,

Purposes  :

- sex toys

- enhance & intensify pleasure

- helps to achieve orgasm

- useful in erectile dysfunction

- solo play

- lesbian sex

- masturbatory aid

- a variant orgasmic experience

      Vibrating Condoms

1) Condoms that come with vibrator in the same pack.

    -  sales gimmick to make condom use more appealing to users.

2) Truly Vibrating Condoms

    - vibrator and condom are incorporated together so that the vibrator cannot be used

        without the condom.

    - still at experimental stages.  Some are awaiting variousgovernmental approval

• Vibrating male condoms  

• Vibrating female condoms

 

        Male Vibrating Condoms

                    Ring vibrators

            Study involved 7 couples

- 4 couples post graduate professionals, easy going, fun loving with heightened interest in sexual activity – 100 % liked vibrator experience – prefer sex with vibrator.  

- 3 couples school dropouts – 2 females part time CSWs – with experience in male and female condoms and male and female vibrating condoms – prefernatural sex to vibrator sex

Vibrating body with linear extension

      - 4 couples – 3 CSW + pimp couples – 1 regular married couple  -  36 acts - 2 models

Male

  Adv.      :    I ntensified and enhanced orgasm

  Disadv. :    Speeds up the act

                   - vibratory sense not pleasurable

                   - numbness during and after the act, 3 to 20 mts., in 30% of acts(10/36                      acts) same couple in all the acts involved

                  - noise disliked

Female

Adv.       :     intensified orgasm

                  - vibrations restricted to genitalia

Disadv.  :    some discomfort reported

Female Vibrating Condoms

Vibrators added to regular ‘ V ‘ frame female Condoms.

                   - 92 acts of clinical trials on females, both CSWs and housewifes

FEEDBACK

Adv.   :

    - Orgasm in 100 % acts

    - takes 70 seconds to 315 seconds for orgasm

    - intensified and exaggerated and wave like orgasm.(not experienced in natural sex)

Disadv.  :

   -  vibrations not pleasurable

   -  vibrations transmitted along the thighs upto the knee

   -  noisy

  -  4 couples and 36 acts

 

Male Feedback  :

  -  enhanced pleasure

  -  no numbness or soreness

Female Feedback  :

  -  orgasm quick, intensified, multiple and ensured everytime the vibrator female      condom is used

  -  vibrations not comfortable and transmitted

Sex form	Male	Female
1) Natural sex prefered over vibrator sex	40 %	40 %
2) Vibrator sex better than natural sex	57 %	57 %
3) Female condom prefered over female vibrating condom	80 %	60 %
4) Female vibrating condom better than male vibrating condom	100 %	100 %

 Skin sensory stimuli

  Touch

                    - Light touch

                     -  tactile localisation

                     -  tactile discrimination

                     -  itching Meissner’s corpuscles

                     -  Merkel’s discs (finger tips, lips, mouth)

Basket cells – near hair follicles

Papillae of skin – hand, foot, lips & tongue

Tickling – combined effect of stimulation of touch receptors and pain nerve endings

Points for Discussion 

1) Reasons for discomfort during vibrations

2) The comfortable frequency of vibrations

3) The right and most sensitive area for vibratory stimuli

4) Means to limit transmission of vibratory sense

5) Effect of vibrators on pregnancy

6) Short & Long term consequences of frequent usage of vibrators

CONCLUSION

- Enhance and intensify orgasm.

- Makes condom use more appealing and thereby increase the incidence of      protected sex.