TROJAN Magnum Lubricated Large Condoms, 36 Ct

Large condoms are a vortex of confusion. This line is fairly good, but the packaging is unnecessarily giant to make you feel like you are, which makes them annoying to carry. Just how long and wide are magnums vs XL? It's not listed on trojan's site, and the measurements on various sites around the net all disagree with each other. What do they agree on? Almost all condoms are about the same size. How much wider is the XL than the regular? 1-2mm (55/54 vs 56). Negligible. How much longer? Similar (the same or 5mm different) Indistinguishable from the other magnums and really from most condoms (even the smallest are only 10% smaller .. latex stretches largely). This is significantly deceiving when the manufacturer states that they are 30% larger and the size buyers are normally worried about constriction not length. Stranger yet, the real significant differences in size they don't even explain! The condoms in the line differ by shape, which they are rather murky about, but may matter a lot more. The difference is the regular magnums are a flared condom (wider at the top, tight at bottom) but regular otherwise, the XL are the same width at the top, but are wider at bottom, making them a standard non-flared style condom that's just a little bit bigger, but no bigger than the magnums at the head supposedly (but they look a lot bigger in the package due to the base). Even weirder the other varieties of magnum (bareskin, thin, ribbed etc) are randomly different sizes and shapes which is not well explained anywhere, and is explained on other websites in a conflicting way (in several cases their mm and inches listings were even in conflict with each other). Worse still, a primary factor influencing how tight a condom feels is how easily it stretches.... So a thin condom may well feel considerably less tight than a regular one as it stretches more easily. Manufacturers seem not to be very interested in sorting this out for you so you can have a good sex life, but instead seem to be too busy advertising to your aspirational identity to give you any of this information. And online vendors seem content to make it up to deliver perceived value. A real test website would inflate them with a fixed amount of air pressure, and measure their circumference at each location and total volume. As far as I know this doesn't exist. Finally and lastly, all condoms seem to have super mediocre short lasting lubrication to save money.... I'm sure somebody makes a premium product at a reasonable price with clear measurements but I haven't found it yet. This too could be quantified in tests by measuring friction over time. I would say .. this should be easy to fix... but a few years ago, I consulted with a friend who started a "super premium" condom brand. While they list measurements and materials more clearly on the package. They are manufactured in the same plants in malaysia and thailand that other vendors are, and have significantly limited choices in molds and lubricants without spending way more money in product design and testing and national and international certifications than is desirable, then there's the matter of shelf space and trust recognition. Anyhow, these are a solid ... OK. Kind of like a premium fast food avocado turkey sandwich from mcdonalds with an expensive box that tells you its healthy.