Is the cost of a pack of condoms going to break you?
If it is then you need to stop having sex because the cost of the child you might sire or treatment for the illness you might contract from an ill fitting condom breaking will really bum you out.
Also that condom in the pic will go further down if you learn how to apply it properly. Condoms stretch enough to cover your arm so covering your cock isn't an impossibility. It's just not going to be comfortable.
Shell out for different sizes until you find the ones that work for you, in the long run it'll be cheaper than the alternative. Instead of throwing away the ones that don't fit leave the packages (in box) near a high school hang out. Who knows, you might help prevent a teen pregnancy.
Thanks for the homily.
You have jumped to conclusions slightly. We haven't slept together yet. She is abroad at the moment, and will be back in a month. In the meantime, I want to get this issue sorted out (hence why I am here on this site). However, I don't want to waste time and money buying condoms that are the wrong size, any more than I would experiment by buying several shirts or several tyres for my car on the off chance one of them might fit.
Regrettably, it seems the condom manufacturers, in their infinite wisdom, choose subjective descriptors for their products such as L or XL. Well, what the hell does that mean? It would be helpful if they could just state instead or in addition, if your erect penis measures a" X b", then you need this brand, if it measures c" X d", then you need that brand. Etc...
And, to answer your other point.
1. It may come as a surprise to you, but this is not the first tiime I have (tried to) put a condom on. I just haven't used them for a while because I was in a LTR. Now, I am in another relationship (which I have very high hopes of becoming a LTR, because she is absolutely wonderful), but my gf doesn't want to take any hormonal contraceptive (which, TBH, I think is fair enough), nor can she use the IUD, for some reason or other which was explained to her by a gyno. So, condoms it is then, worst luck.
2. It will not roll down any further. I tried. And tried. The skin just bunches up ahead of the ring. The only way to get one on is to hook my fingers under the edges of the condom, and pull it out and over and down, rather like how you put a swimming cap on. However, that still doesn't work very well either, because firstly it is still too short (about 3/4 of the way down), which carries with it the risk of it being pulled off during intercourse. Secondly, it is uncomfortably tight, and yet also, somehow sometimes seems to manage to work its way up the shaft (possibly because I am a bit narrower at the top, and also because the ring is gripping mid-shaft rather than at the base)
3. When I previously used condoms (just your bog standard Durex, Mates etc), I suffered repeated breakages. IIRC, 7 in one night on one occasion. The broken condom invariably stays on and ends up like a tight cock ring, 3/4 of the way down Ignatius Jr. Not good news.
Speedo - thanks for the heads up about the sticky. I'll have a look later.