Where are all the condoms?

I once asked (in my role as a health care professional, not as a busy body) a very young and very pregnant teen why she has allowed her partner to have unprotected sex. Her resonse was that she "didn't know him well enough to talk about that stuff". Sigh.

But I think that is the crux of the problem. In our culture, the only way we know to talk about sex is disapproving lecture or smutty joke. We have no models for how to talk about recreational sex, espeically teenage recreational sex, as a normal activity that most of us engage in, at least occaisionally.

I keep a basket of condoms in my bathroom. When young people from my neighborhood ask, I always let them "use my bathroom". AT 25 cents each, they are welcome to "steal" a pocketful. I hope I've prevented a few unwanted pregnancies.

Who knows? People live for the moment, have unprotected sex, then worry about it when pregnancy arises. Its ireesponsibility, really. Every state has local health departments with family planning clinics, where they give out free condoms, write prescriptions for birth control, whatever. People just aren't responsible enough to take advantage of these resources.

If you can't plan ahead, then you don't need to have sex. If you are not responsible enough to make your man put on a condom, or get yourself on birth control or (God forbid!), practice abstinence, you don't need to be having sex.

P.S. Some people on here ask about symptoms because they are trying to be pregnant (such as I did a month ago!) Not everyone is truly stupid :)

If people always acted responsibly, there would be no drug abuse, war, thievery etc.

But being people, we seek the ultimate in pleasure when and where we want it. Sex without a condom feels better, and if people are all revved up and ready to go, if they have forgotten a condom, they are going to do it anyway.

People are natural risk takers and it is a very stubborn trait to stymmy.

a condom is only 99.9% effective, some women don't use condoms because they are on the pill and in a relationship and sometimes if you forget to take a pill then you can get pregnant and all the condoms are at the family planning store also sometimes girls get drunk and forget about protection

Its basically ignorance. The usual..."he looks clean", or..it doesnt feel as good with a condom, he says I dont trust him if I decide to use condoms....bla bla bla... That and the fact they must not be aware of all the places you can get free condoms, planned parenthood and your local free teen clinics.

I agree & infact it makes me mad. Acedents happen yes. but come on-we are not baby factories. I think in addition to /or instead of funding low income families w/ 100 kids here or in other countries-WE had better start teaching them & sending birth controll there way! Good thinking!

u can buy them at in conner store, ride aid, etc. or if ur scared call sex ed and theyll give them to u for free of charge and u dont need to tell ur parents

It's not the lack of condoms causing this problem. It's lack of maturity and responsibility.

In Your Purse

No ****!! Stay safe, everyone. Better yet...if you don't care about yourself, at least care about the fact that you might give your diseases to your children.