No Excuses: Study Shows Sex Still 'Highly Pleasurable' With Condom

Arousal reportedly the same

New research shows that condoms don't prohibit partners from having good sex, contrary to what many young boys are led to believe due to "myths and misperceptions." Debby Herbenick, a sex researcher at Indiana University’s Center, found that the fears of an erotic pleasure deficit are often misplaced; and that sexual arousal, ease of erection, overall pleasure and orgasm weren’t much different in those who used a condom than in people who went unprotected. Both men and women reported sex being "highly arousing and pleasurable" regardless. Still, out of the 1,645 men and women, aged 18 to 59, studied, only 28 percent of men and about 22 percent of women said they’d used condoms during their most recent intercourse. Herbenick conceded that the population most likely to use condoms -- the young and the single, for instance -- may also be most likely to think any sex is good sex, condom or not, but she didn’t think it confounded her findings. (Today)

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