Latex condoms

If you have ever bought a condom without thinking about what it was made of, you bought latex. It has been the default for decades, and that is less about marketing than about the material being genuinely good at the job.

Natural rubber stretches further than any synthetic, which is what makes latex forgiving about fit, and it is the cheapest per condom by a clear margin. It also comes in far more choices than anything else, from the narrowest widths we track to the widest, and in every texture and thickness on the site. If you want ultra thin, or ribbed, or a box of 100, latex is where the real range sits.

Two things are worth knowing. Oil based lubricants break latex down, so stick to water or silicone based ones, and a small number of people react to the proteins in natural rubber. If that is you or your partner, non latex covers the same ground without them.