Condom percentage of failure

According to PEARL, if 100 women having regular sex for a year use only condoms, around 15 of them will fall pregnant in that year.

However, that doesn't take account of the way that they are used. With "perfect use", the figure becomes 2/100 women pregnant per year. Bear in mind though, most people will assume they fall into the "perfect use" category, yet the actual figures show them false. Have you got a reason to believe you'll use condoms perfectly when it obviously isn't that usual to do so? I couldn't even say which criteria constitute "perfect" use.

Personally, I think condoms clearly aren't suitable as an alone contraceptive if you are having regular sex over a length of time. As someone said, in comparison to using "pulling out" as your sole method of contraception, condoms are only slightly more effective.

There is a decent (if small) chance of pregnancy using condoms alone, and where I have friends or acquaintances who seem quite sensible, yet still end up accidentally pregnant - it's always that they've used a single method of contraception, usually condoms sometimes the pill.

Here's a wiki about PEARL

Looking at the table I would only use a "blue" rated contraception alone. Otherwise I would combine hormonal and barrier. If barrier was the only contraceptive available to me, I would combine with rhythm method or pulling out.

What's "regular sex"?

Sex on a regular basis.

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What's "regular sex"?