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Re:L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand by frobozz on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:14AM (#10033651)
By default, condoms are vegan-friendly, being made from trees. Non-vegan condoms are the special-needs version (i.e. for latex allergy sufferers), that are not as good.
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Re:L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand by cshenoy on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:06AM (#10033800)
Some condoms contain casein, a by-product of milk which by definition makes it non-vegan friendly.
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Re:L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand by frobozz on Monday August 10, 2015 @12:05PM (#10035496)
This is a good point that I hadn't realised. It seems that both latex condoms and gloves can contain casein.

Apparently, this has messed up tests for latex allergy:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674999...

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Re:L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand by DanBC on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:17AM (#10033657)
Are you including the lubricants?
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Re:L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand by tveita on Monday August 10, 2015 @08:35AM (#10034113)
The traditional, non-vegan alternative would be lamb's intestines.
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