It’s National Condom Week!
National Condom Week kicked off on Valentine’s Day, the perfect day to start conversations about safe sex! National Condom Week will last until February 21 so use this week to speak your mind about comprehensive sex education and start conversations with whoever you can, whenever you can.
There are so many lies we’ve all heard about condoms, mostly coming from anti-choice advocates, to make sure to get the facts about condoms and make safer sex a priority every time you have sex!
Some Condoms 101:
Latex condoms have been scientifically proven to
- Reduce the risk of pregnancy. Condoms are an effective, inexpensive, over-the-counter form of birth control.
- Reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission. The condom is a highly effective barrier against HIV infection.
- Reduce the risk of other sexually transmitted infections. Condoms significantly reduce the risk of getting or passing many sexually transmitted infections.
Here’s how you can practice safer sex:
- Understand and be honest about the risks you take.
- Keep blood, pre-cum, semen and vaginal fluids out of the bodies of our partners.
- Always use latex or female condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse.
- Don’t engage in sex play or intercourse with a sore caused by a sexually transmitted infection. Also, don’t engage in sex play or intercourse with an open sore or wound of any kind, from anything when it may put ourselves or our partners at risk.
- Find ways to make safer sex as pleasurable as possible.
You can buy condoms over-the-counter at your local pharmacy or drug store. You may also buy them discreetly from feminist-friendly sex shops like Babeland, plus they have a wide variety of lubricants, too! And, as always, you can also get free condoms from your local Planned Parenthood clinic and while you’re there, you may want to get a free HIV/AIDS test, especially if you’re sexually active and have never had one before.
You can also celebrate National Condom Week by sharing some funny (and some serious) skits and public service announcements about condoms and their importance.
Here is a hilarious skit from The Golden Girls:
And here are two public service announcements from MTV:
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That article and video are really informative.
Love the videos!
They are classic.
Doing a safe sex is the best way to keep out from AIDS
Great to see things like safe sex being so widely talked about now.
I am not that old and I remember it being a BIG deal in elementary school – lots of complaints about condom talk. This is the 90's we are talking about as well, not that long ago.
I am not opposed to condoms but I am not for them either. Obviously I have used them in the past but I would have to disagree that they are a great form of disease prevention. Condoms do not block most sexually transmitted diseases, just the ones people think are the most prevalent (HIV). Although HIV can be prevented, condoms have no guarantee; they break easily and are many times old and cheap. Although HIV is of great concern, I am much more concerned with the diseases you get regardless if you are wearing a condom or not. I also do not like the lifestyle condoms promote. Regards!
I remember the same thing! In middle school we had a sex ed class in 7th grade and I swear the only thing that we were taught in that class was all about anatomy in very unspecific, vague terms. Not only did we have to get consent forms signed by our guardians to be taught about our own anatomy, but we weren't even taught anything that would come of use during our sexual lives. Sex ed needs to be reformed big time; how about teaching adolescents something that they will actually need to know?
And what “lifestyle” do condoms promote? The lifestyle where you protect yourself and your partner from potential disease and unwanted pregnancy? Abstinence does not work and whether you are a teen or an adult, expecting people to abstain from sex is just plain stupid because when matters of hormones come into play, abstinence goes right out the window 99% of the time. I think you should brush up on your scientific research there, as well, since condoms do (scientifically speaking) protect against disease such as HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and so on, and they also protect against pregnancy. How a condom works is when you have sex, there is a barrier between the penis and the vagina protecting both the penis and the vagina from the other person's fluids and thus protecting both people from potential disease. Sure, condoms can break if they don't fit or something, but that does not happen every time you wear a condom, not even close and I wouldn't say that condoms break “easily” either, since condoms go through rigorous testing before they are even put out on the market for consumers. The bullshit you're spewing here is what they drill into the heads of adolescents to scare them into abstaining from sex and if you haven't noticed from reading this site, I don't do too well with fearmongering especially when it can potentially harm the mind and health of people who hear it.
What “lifestyle” do they promote? Casual sex? Meaningless sex? Quite the opposite! Being considerate enough to wear a condom is thoughtful sex, showing you care for your partner enough to spend the five seconds it takes to put on a condom. Unless you are a virgin and are 100% certain your partner is as well (how would you do that? How can you guarantee they aren't lying?) wearing a condom is just smart. Casual and meaningless sex would just do whatever whenever with whomever and disregard the consequences.
Unless you are a wolf or a penguin and you bond for life with your one and only partner, and even then are unconcerned with the number of children you bring in the world, the condom is the symbol for SMART sex not casual sex.
condoms are priceless! they can literally save your life!
I didn't know there was a national comdom week
oh I didn't know they made latex condoms for anal sex, well thanks for the info nice article by the way, definitely suitable for teenagers who likes to explore or starting to explore
In addition to the mentioned, spermicide condoms are now also widely available in various drugstores across the world. There are even spermicidal versions of the classic Ribbed Trojan condom for added pleasure for the ladies and added protection for both sexes!
Condoms are very important with today's very liberal lifestyles. Especially among teens!
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Bahaha– rolling laughing about the Golden Girls skit. My grandmother could be one of those girls. By the way– expecting abstinence is not “Stupid” or unrealistic, anything can be done with enough will power!
When it comes to penis enlargement or marirea penisului most people tend to buy different accessories which really work (some better than others) but I don't get it with the pills. Would people really expect to grow their equipment with pills ?
Many people still wait for the definite proof or the symptoms to confirm that they are really STD infected, far from their knowledge that symptoms do not appear immediately after their exposure in a certain infection. Preventive measures are also taught by concerned health specialist.
Sex is really fun. But it must be done with limitations. With the correct usage of contraceptive (condom) you can protect yourself from acquiring any disease. Another is frequent STD Testing in your Local STD Testing Clinics, this will help you very much. It can widen your knowledge about preventive measures and keeping yourself vigilant on any diseases.
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national condom week, dont think that applys to the UK. unplanned pregnacies are up a hell of a lot of %
? laughed a lot:) also i sell them:)
The Gonorrhea is very dangerous, but you can protect it easy. I was found great website to advice you at http://www.treatmentforgonorrhea.com/
If you have sex, it can be STD. STI symptoms are not always obvious. If you suspect that you have symptoms of STD, see a doctor. More details go to http://www.treatmentforgonorrhea.com/
As the saying goes, “prevention is better then cure.” A few moments of pleasure can cause a whole lifetime of despair if you are not careful.
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The golden girls video was funny
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This is a good way of sharing the info. Well done!