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Can a condom break only a little?

Hi folks! I'm having a lot of problems with anxiety after a sexual encounter with a girl. I'm not sure if the condom broke, i mean, it seemed intact from my side, but what if the condom broke a little, at the same height than my foreskin from behind my penis? If there was a little hole there, any vaginal fluid could have gotten into and could have infected me. Some people say that condoms break catastrophically, what about that's not my case?
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3191940 tn?1447268717
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Condoms don't break "just a little."  Even if they did, small holes wouldn't provide sufficient entry for the HIV virus.  It basically needs to be rubbed into your urethra.  No one gets infected from alleged "small holes" in condoms.  And again, as you have heard, condoms fail catastrophically.
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