nervous about buying condoms?

The person at the drug store wont remember you or care about what you buy, but if you're self conscious just go to a store you don't normally shop at to go get them.

I used to have a similar stigma because of where I grew up you just didn't talk about it. There are a few options: 1.) Buy them online and pay extra for shipping. 2.) Go to the free clinic, they just give them to you. No one will treat you weird. 3.) I made a game out of it. My friends and I decided that whoever could come up with the craziest things to buy with condoms wins. For example, Condoms, a Melon Baller and a box of mentos. Its not as funny as some but its just random things. One guy bought Depends, Condoms and a tub of lard. I was laughing for a week. The reason it worked was because then I knew it was the object to be embarrassing or funny. Thus I got over my fear. I even got hit on by a chick at the register when I bought some condoms. In the end, it doesn't matter. Because you are being responsible and sex though seeming taboo is a natural part of life.

Of course it's normal to feel nervous the first time you buy condoms!! Some people feel nervous for the first 50 times!

Different people have different ways of dealing with it. Some will go to a family planning clinic so the staff are used to those sort of things and expect it. Some will buy from the chemist along with a few other things. Some people will order them on line so they don't have any embarrassment.

I chose to go into the supermarket, get a load of shopping, and chuck them in there with it. Then I had the bright idea of using one of the self service checkouts, but being not so clever, I had bought a razor and a 18 rated gaming magazine, so the assistant had to come over twice to authorise them, and then on the way out the security tag on the razor set the alarm off, so the security guy stopped me as well. By that time I was so pissed off with my luck I didn't care anymore. That probably didn't help your confidence but maybe you can learn from my mistakes!?

Hope I helped a bit!

It is normal to feel nervous. If you really don't want to go tell a friend you trust to buy you them or just buy them from that friend. I can't really give you advice on how not to be nervous,but just stay calm and think about something else not what other people might be thinking.

My boyfriend felt nervous too about it the first time he got some. But he said surprisingly the cashier acted fine about it. She just rang it up as if he were buying something as simple as a bottle of soda.

Also, people may think certain things of you, but people would think worse of you if you got your girl pregnant without meaning to due to not using protection.

So look at it this way. Either deal with strangers thinking badly of you in a store for 2 minutes ... or deal with getting your girl pregnant without meaning to and have people think bad of you guys then? (Hint: If I were you I'd choose the first choice.. sounds better!!!)

hey! i was like u too! :) i was all red, and usually by the time i got to the counter i would leave them on ashelf. and if they were locked! FORGET IT. NO WAY I WAS GONA ASK. im a girl btw. the first time my bf bought them when we were together, and we did that for a while. next thing i know im by myself, and by bf texts me to say we were out of condoms. but because the cashier has seen me for a while buying condoms with my bf, it was second nature.

best advice? go with someone for a few days and let him/her buy them, later on when the cashier knows u better, u wont feel weird about it:)

Think how nervous you would be if you were waiting on a very important blood test if you had not bought the condoms. Buy them with pride, use them with more pride! Just buy them and use them. STD are no joke, they ruin lives. Wrap it up every-time.

Not a single person in that store gives a damn what you are buying. Just walk in and buy them like you would anything else. You see people standing around reading labels all th time, trying to decide which one they want to buy.

Don't even worry about it at all.

its normal to be nervous. but just think of it this way everybody thats in the store with you has probably bought them before. so has the person ringing you up. just pretend you are buying bread or something like that. it will take you nervousness away =]

Yes, its normal to be nervous if you've never done it before. If you can't get up the courage to go into a store, just buy them online.