This week, a California program that allows teens to order condoms online garnered controversy, but Pfizer selling Viagra to patients online did not. Meanwhile, a vibrator race was held in Las Vegas.
Welp. Good to know that safer-sex rhymes are being passing on from generation to generation.
what you’ve all been waiting for…
J&D Foods, the manufacturer of everything bacon, has just released bacon condoms. Not only do these new condoms taste and smell like bacon, they feature images of bacon as well—hence the product’s tagline, “Make your meat look like meat.”
Expelled from college for distributing condoms? It’s more likely than you think*
Four years ago, 90% of students at Boston College (BC), a Catholic university, voted in favor of having access to sexual health-care education and resources, including contraceptives, on campus. The unofficial student group Boston College Students for Sexual Health (BCSSH) was formed.
Safe Sites is one of the programs they designed to meet students’ need for sexual health care. Administrators knew it existed and let it operate under the radar for years—until now.
*if you’re a student at Boston College
Kori asks:
I’m and 18 years old and have been having sex for a year and been on the pill for about a year. I take my birth control like a ritual at the same time every day (the combination pill). Sometime my boyfriend and I don’t use a condom in the beginning to get him hard then we always put one on. My question is, when on the pill do you absolutely have to use condoms? They say that every time you have sex you NEED to use a condom. I know it is the most effective way, but I thought that the one of the points of the pill is so you don’t need to use a condom.
Heather Corinna replies:
We get asked about this a lot; about whether once you have a more effective method of contraception than condoms, like a hormonal method or IUD, if they’re still needed to prevent pregnancy.
The only right answer to that question, no matter who asks it, is that it really depends on what you and your partner want and need.
Condoms as Evidence: Terrible for Sex Workers, Terrible for Public Health
A common method internationally for law enforcement to target those in the sex trades and gender non-conforming people is to use the possession of condoms as evidence to make stops and arrests for various different prostitution charges.
Did you know? The New York City condom turned six on Valentine’s Day!
Did you know? The New York City condom turned 6 this past Valentine’s Day!
“I always use condoms, handsome. Except over my heart.” Today’s Puppet Service Announcement is brought to you by Avenue Q.
(via teamanthro)
World Contraception Day: Myths, Rumors, and Rubbish
Written by the IPPF Live for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
Published in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Live blog.
Crocodile feces, honey, dates, hot mercury, fish, opium, half a lemon, disinfectant, cola, animal intestines, weasel testicles, a hare’s anus, and the toxic sludge from a blacksmith’s workshop. Sounds like the contents of Heston Blumenthal’s kitchen cupboard.
In fact, these ingredients, in various combinations, have all been ingested, inserted, digested, or applied as contraceptive measures over the years. Few of them worked. Many resulted in death.
Wednesday, September 26th, is World Contraception Day. This is a day of campaigning for a world in which “every pregnancy is wanted.” Its mission is to improve awareness of contraception among young people, so that they can make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
Times have moved on since the days of such weird concoctions. More than 20 different methods of long-acting and short-acting hormonal and barrier contraception are now available, many of which are 99-percent-plus effective.
But strange superstitions live on. Take the pill, and you’ll gain weight, grow a beard, become infertile, and smell funny. HIV and STI cells are so small, so the story goes, that they can slip through the walls of a condom.
