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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

The condom part is silly.

Cost and availability aren't barriers to condom usage. They sell 36 packs of condoms at Walmart for like $15. Basically every single convenience store sells them for prices that, while massively inflated, are pretty low in the grand scheme of things. Most college health centers give them out for free.

The reason people don't wear them is because doing it raw just feels better.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

For some, that’s less than a month’s supply.

For many people price is a barrier. One which has no need to exist, and only exists because for some reason Christian bosses don’t want to recognize that their employees have sex, and get all weird about it.

College health centers usually only hand them out to their students. Do you think people stop having sex after they graduate?

This is besides the fact that the best way to reduce abortions and unwanted pregnancies on the whole is to provide and encourage contraceptives. One way to do that is make condoms and contraception covered by healthcare.

Edit to add: man, I get enough awkwardness buying my partner’s tampons if she needs a top-off. I certainly don’t want her knowing my dick size.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

College health centers usually only hand them out to their students. Do you think people stop having sex after they graduate?

No but they can afford them with their easy-to-get high paying job due to graduating right? /s

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