Condoms are now security boxed

OzyOly said:
Being fair, I think 18/19 year olds look like little girls too. I'm getting far too old to be at Uni. :(
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haha, I DJ at a Rock Bar, and student nights are dangerous, So I have to beable to see the differences, age wise. We get anything from 16 year olds upwards in(The Doormen are crap)
 
Tbh, rubbers have been the safest way for me, pulling out requires timing and I know from personal experience that the pill is not 100%. Try getting a stupidly ready call from an ex girlfriend a month into your first year at Uni saying that she was pregnant but had a miscarriage. Not bloody fun I tell thee...
 
There are some seriously misinformed and/or ignorant ideas in here regarding safe-sex & contraception. No wonder std and unplanned pregnancy rates are high!

Contraceptive efficacy rates
Typical Use
Implanon: 99.95%
The Pill: 92%
Condoms: 85%
Withdrawl:73%

If you're goingout and having casual sex with girls you don't know without using a condom you're an idiot. If they'll shag you then chances are they'll be shagging other guys, and who knows where they've been sticking it!

Few things really make me dispair of people but ignorance of sexual health is one of them.
 
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WillyNelson said:
There are some seriously misinformed and/or ignorant ideas in here regarding safe-sex & contraception. No wonder std and unplanned pregnancy rates are high!

Contraceptive efficacy rates
Typical Use
Implanon: 99.95%
The Pill: 92%
Condoms: 79%
Withdrawl:73%
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You have quotes for male/female condoms, pretty sure the female ones are not available here anymore, and even so, they have always been notoriously bad! Its fair to put that figure to 85%.
 
Why not get a bag full of freebies from a clinic?

Either way at least the OP is being sensible. Sex these days is like playing russian roulette with your todger.
 
PhillyDee said:
You have quotes for male/female condoms, pretty sure the female ones are not available here anymore, and even so, they have always been notoriously bad! Its fair to put that figure to 85%.
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Male & female condoms? I see no mention of that there - Implanon is the subdermal contraceptive implant in common use now, not the old-style dams.

Then again, the figures themselves aren't very well portrayed. Are you (not you, PhillyDee) measuring a condom's effectiveness only on the basis of resulting pregnancy, or including prevention of STDs too? If the former, are you considering a general standard of use or assuming perfect usage? If the latter, are you citing male to female transmission rates or female to male rates? Condoms are very effective against pregnancy if used correctly (most sources cite 98% success rates under ideal conditions), but not so much for STDs - risk of transmission of gonorrhoea, I seem to remember, from male to female when using a condom is only about 70% reduction.
 
lol reminds me of the last time I bought rubbers in the supermarket. Usually I prefer to go to Superdrug or somewhere similar so that I don't have a whole queue of people behind me and just a single box of condoms on the till :D but alas it was past closing time for all but supermarkets. I was waiting for the people in front to finish paying, and a bloke put his shopping on the conveyer belt behind me, and i could see out the corner of my eye he was looking at the box, then up at me, and back at the box. So I turned round to look at him, and he quickly spun around and pretended he was gazing at the ceiling in the other direction. Was quite funny. :p
 
Deadbeat said:
Male & female condoms? I see no mention of that there - Implanon is the subdermal contraceptive implant in common use now, not the old-style dams.

Then again, the figures themselves aren't very well portrayed. Are you (not you, PhillyDee) measuring a condom's effectiveness only on the basis of resulting pregnancy, or including prevention of STDs too? If the former, are you considering a general standard of use or assuming perfect usage? If the latter, are you citing male to female transmission rates or female to male rates? Condoms are very effective against pregnancy if used correctly (most sources cite 98% success rates under ideal conditions), but not so much for STDs - risk of transmission of gonorrhoea, I seem to remember, from male to female when using a condom is only about 70% reduction.
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Just reading from that link that the previous posted, I am pretty sure it is far higher as well, and cannot be bothered to do 'real' research . . . ;).
 
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