The larger question is why don't the kids already want to use condoms? If the answer is that parents don't tell them about condoms hoping that the kids just won't have sex, then I think many parents are quite scarily delusional.
However it seems ridiculous that kids wouldn't already know about condoms without their parents telling them. So do a lot of kids in our country lack a fundamental instinct against self-sabotage?
@Wrapitup: Jeez, ya think some parents are scarily delusional? Of course condoms lead to sex and you will not be asking your fundie-ass, Sarah Palin-loving mother for a condom, now will you? If you premeditate sex, you're a tramp and your mother is an accomplice, so all that gets pushed under the rug.
Besides! if Juno can have a baby and be so damn snappy and sparkly about it, why can't you? There's no need for contraception. There's adoption, abstinence and "Alaska Abstinence".
Also, can someone tell me why condoms are locked up in the drug stores? I've seen plenty of customers going to great lengths to find a clerk to open the vault for them. Saw this the other day at my neighborhood drugstore--in a gay-friendly area. What this poor kid had to do to get a condom. Shameful. By then half the store knew what he was up to...
@Robert Synnott: in many drugstores, yes they are. Yet, interestingly, I was in a store last summer (of the same chain, CVS, in the SUBURBS!) and they were not locked up.
@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Just came back from my pharmacy where they are locked up. I asked the pharmacist what the deal was. He said that they were the most stolen item in the store so they ended up locking them up.
I guess some kids are embarrassed to buy them even when they don't have to ask to open up the condom vault.
Hahah, my college just had baskets of condoms in all of the bathrooms of the dormitories. No one knew who put them there (we assumed the housing office), but you could never say that you were more than fifteen feet from a condom.
Hmm, at my college the student union gave out condoms, paid for by the government and university, in welcome bags and elsewhere. There were never any complaints that I heard about. And this is in a country which was very hung up about contraception until the 80s.
I realise that abortion is a big controversial issue in the US, but are condoms?! Really? I can't imagine why this would be the case.
@Robert Synnott: Because if you give condoms to kids, they're gonna wanna have sex! And free condoms will give kids who previously couldn't get laid the magical ability to nail anyone in the vicinity! And if condoms were not literally thrown at kids then the kids would obviously all abstain because there's no way that all of the super-responsible and always-sober 18-year-olds of the world would ever fornicate without protection, let alone before marriage!
You know, instead of asking such ridiculous questions, maybe you could be a little more grateful that people are watching out for the children, and maybe you and your slutty countrymen should invest in some chastity belts for your harlots.
22 porn performers contracting HIV in the past 5 years? So that averages out to what...about 5 a year? In an industry where fucking is the norm? I don't get it...is this supposed to be a shocking number?
@BadKarma: According to the article, there are only about 1200 porn actors/actress. So, 1200 people getting 2378 cases of chlamydia in five years, would, I'm guessing, be higher than the general population. And 22 out of 1200 isn't so great either.
If I remember right, it depends. Are we talking str8 or "opposite" prn?
"Opposite" prn has mandated "safe" shoots since the late 80's. Some studios still do it w out, but it's not nearly as prevalent as in the str8 scene. Therefore "opposite" tends to be "safer" in that respect, and therefore has less infections. Typically in "opposite" films, if they're going comando, all the performers are already HIV+.
So we're surprised that people who have sex on camera for money (and presumably have sex much more frequently off camera for money and/or fun) are contracting social diseases? How is this news?
@rockandhardPL: Are there still people out there who think people who complain about having sex while using condoms are just making up the fact that it's the opposite of everything pleasurable, ever?
It's not that people don't use them, it's that they do use them and it sucks.
Other annoyances? Oral sex AFTER putting on/sex while wearing a condom. The left behind Spermicide and latex taste makes "mixing it up" miserable.
So stop complaining about complainers and keep having your boring sensationless sex.
@Voyou_Charmant: The annoying thing about not using condoms are the stupid fucking babies crawling out of you 9 months later. And then demanding you fucking feed, bathe, clothe and house them for the next 20 years.
Hmmm... Spoken like a sufferer from genital warts.
People who bitch about condoms are generally the very drippy, oozy bastards who ought not to be having unprotected sex. And wouldn't, if they weren't selfish jerks.
Is gonorrhea really that much more prevalent than syphilis? What if Al Capone had gotten gonorrhea and not syphilis; history would be changed, it'd be like killing a butterfly in the past but instead of killing it you just give it syphilis or gonorrhea.
@muppet_baby: I was also surprised at that; the Syph seemed to be pretty popular on Grey's Anatomy, and if that's not a true sample of real life then I don't know what is.
@HiredGoons: The look on a guy's face after he noticed the tongue-numbing aspect of the "Her Pleasure" crap certainly amused me. It almost made up for the mediocre sex that preceded it.
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However it seems ridiculous that kids wouldn't already know about condoms without their parents telling them. So do a lot of kids in our country lack a fundamental instinct against self-sabotage?
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Besides! if Juno can have a baby and be so damn snappy and sparkly about it, why can't you? There's no need for contraception. There's adoption, abstinence and "Alaska Abstinence".
Also, can someone tell me why condoms are locked up in the drug stores? I've seen plenty of customers going to great lengths to find a clerk to open the vault for them. Saw this the other day at my neighborhood drugstore--in a gay-friendly area. What this poor kid had to do to get a condom. Shameful. By then half the store knew what he was up to...
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*bets it cuts down on the purchase of embarrassing ones, like flavoured and so forth, though*
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I guess some kids are embarrassed to buy them even when they don't have to ask to open up the condom vault.
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Call off your goons, Momo. I'm sure they had something to do with this.
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I realise that abortion is a big controversial issue in the US, but are condoms?! Really? I can't imagine why this would be the case.
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You know, instead of asking such ridiculous questions, maybe you could be a little more grateful that people are watching out for the children, and maybe you and your slutty countrymen should invest in some chastity belts for your harlots.
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Why are you reporting this?
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If I remember right, it depends. Are we talking str8 or "opposite" prn?
"Opposite" prn has mandated "safe" shoots since the late 80's. Some studios still do it w out, but it's not nearly as prevalent as in the str8 scene. Therefore "opposite" tends to be "safer" in that respect, and therefore has less infections. Typically in "opposite" films, if they're going comando, all the performers are already HIV+.
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No, stop. This my fun sex. Put the camera down.
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"All you do is work, work, work!"
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How about watching porn while wearing a condom - really offputting.
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It's not that people don't use them, it's that they do use them and it sucks.
Other annoyances? Oral sex AFTER putting on/sex while wearing a condom. The left behind Spermicide and latex taste makes "mixing it up" miserable.
So stop complaining about complainers and keep having your boring sensationless sex.
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Condoms make sex painful (i.e., the opposite of pleasurable)? I would go with less pleasurable.
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Hmmm... Spoken like a sufferer from genital warts.
People who bitch about condoms are generally the very drippy, oozy bastards who ought not to be having unprotected sex. And wouldn't, if they weren't selfish jerks.
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Way to jump to a conclusion...
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