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SultanaEleusis
06/29/09

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Condoms are also good at children's birthday parties, where they can be blown up and shaped into various animals.
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Colander
06/29/09

@SultanaEleusis: Putting them on your head and hyperventilating is also a good time.
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BookishLookish
06/29/09

In reply to How Are We Tricking Kids Into Using Condoms Today?
Are guys still trying to talk you out of making them use a condom? I always found the line "My daddy said you have to" worked really well.
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Mo MoDo
06/29/09

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Just make watch Degrassi marathons. Each episode is basically a 30-minute PSA for condoms.
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/29/09

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This is why they call Missouri the "Blow Me State."
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Wrapitup
06/29/09

In reply to How Are We Tricking Kids Into Using Condoms Today?
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?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
06/29/09

@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...
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Robert Synnott
06/29/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: They're locked up? That's absurd. Are they considered particularly dangerous, or just particularly stealable?

*bets it cuts down on the purchase of embarrassing ones, like flavoured and so forth, though*
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
06/29/09

@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.
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DahlELama
06/29/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: That's so strange...they're definitely not locked up at the CVS here in Philly...I wonder who makes that decision.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
06/29/09

@DahlELama: insidious anti-choicers/anti-sexers is my guess. They're everywhere.
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momof3wildkids
06/29/09

@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.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
06/29/09

@momof3wildkids: I thought Milk Duds were the most stolen item.

Call off your goons, Momo. I'm sure they had something to do with this.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/29/09

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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.
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/29/09

@braak: Fifteen feet, eh? Either your college had an endowment to beat them all, or needed a serious refresher course in condom use. ;-)
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/29/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Well, really the dorms were just designed in a kind of ring around the bathrooms, so everyone was pretty close by.
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BookishLookish
06/29/09

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That would be a teaser if Leighton took off her shoe and showed one big toe peaking through a sock.
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TableNine
06/29/09

@BookishLookish: I must be overtired. I thought it was a clip of Leighton Meester getting tasered. Imagine my disappointment.
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Robert Synnott
06/29/09

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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.
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DahlELama
06/29/09

@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.
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Senor_Wences
06/29/09

@DahlELama: I went to an uber-lefty college. We all got abortions during orientation so we could discuss how it made us feel.
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BadKarma
06/12/09

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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?

Why are you reporting this?
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dinalohan
06/15/09

@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.
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saintjim
06/12/09

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I'd like to know how the STD rate among porn performers compares to that of the general population.
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aedude01
06/12/09

@saintjim:

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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Voyou_Charmant
06/12/09

@aedude01: Where did you get that information? It sounds like nonsense to me.
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Voyou_Charmant
06/12/09

@Voyou_Charmant: It reads like nonsense too.
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markscottmusic
06/12/09

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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?
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No Day Like Friday
06/12/09

@markscottmusic:

No, stop. This my fun sex. Put the camera down.
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HiredGoons
06/12/09

@No Day Like Friday:

"All you do is work, work, work!"
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Mike Byhoff
06/12/09

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Watching porn with condoms is about as annoying as having sex with condoms.
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depardoo
06/12/09

@Mikey-B:

How about watching porn while wearing a condom - really offputting.
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rockandhardPL
06/12/09

@Mikey-B:Are there still people out there who complain about sex with condoms. Get some thin ones and stop spreading stuff around. Jesus.
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Voyou_Charmant
06/12/09

@Mikey-B: backed 100%
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Voyou_Charmant
06/12/09

@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.
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CaptainFantastic
06/12/09

@Voyou_Charmant: "[sex with condoms is] the opposite of everything pleasurable."

Condoms make sex painful (i.e., the opposite of pleasurable)? I would go with less pleasurable.
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Kitten_Witawip
06/12/09

@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.
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City_Dater
06/12/09

@Voyou_Charmant:

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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HiredGoons
06/12/09

@Kitten_Witawip: 20-30.
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Poop Cooper
06/12/09

@CaptainFantastic: Are you assuming pain can't be pleasure?
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CaptainFantastic
06/12/09

@TruPhan: Heh. Yes, I was.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
06/12/09

@CaptainFantastic: yes, kitten, some of do not enjoy having out Ahole rubbed raw by latex. thank you for asking.
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HiredGoons
06/12/09

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In all seriousness, this is terrible.
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muppet_baby
06/12/09

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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.
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DahlELama
06/12/09

@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.
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Lymed
06/12/09

@DahlELama: Gonorrhea is much more prevalent, but the symptoms of syphilis are "sexier" for a television show.
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SidAndFinancy
06/12/09

@muppet_baby: The statistics are skewed because they omitted the thriving Tuskegee, Alabama adult industry.
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bangers
06/13/09

@Lymed: there's nothing sexier than progressive madness!
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HiredGoons
06/12/09

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"Her Pleasure."

Way to jump to a conclusion...
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ginger rant
06/12/09

@HiredGoons: Ha! Agreed. But at least they're acknowledging that (hetero) sex isn't just about him. (That's, um, progress, right?)
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HiredGoons
06/12/09

@ginger rant: I'm sure this was created by a woman.
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daveyjonesisdead
06/12/09

@HiredGoons: No, it's to be marketed to insecure males who are afraid they can't give her pleasure by themselves.
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HiredGoons
06/12/09

@daveyjonesisdead: whatever shuts 'em up, I guess.
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tetragami
06/12/09

@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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