When I was a teen, the nearest health center was a LBGT-friendly one. And we got LOTS of free condoms.
Of course, I didn’t actually use any until much later in life. But still…
I used to volunteer for planned parenthood and they gave me all sorts of condom goodies to hand out wherever I went. I’m asexual so it was fun for me to swat down men asking if they could use them on me! “Do you want the free awesome condoms, or do you want to piss off the safe sex fairy? That’s what I thought. Go have fun now.”
Around Halloween, condoms taped to a stick like a sucker. Actually year round for fun. Those were always a big hit at parties. “Hey want a sucker? This will make it safe!”
Xmas, they had red and green flavored condoms. Red was peppermint green was fruity.
Going to a convention they would ship me with several hundred glittery shiny package condoms. I had an alligator clip necklace for those shiny bitches. Got so much love for it.
You name it, they did it with condoms. Because why the hell not make it fun??
Sadly I’m too old to social these days (jk I’m just not an event person anymore). Or I’d keep it up for sure.
Can we pick the brand? I don’t want no thinkass rubber balloons.
And size :-/
Prevents abortions, Republicans should be all for this, right? Right?
Well if we want to have them cover IVF then they should cover the opposite and preventing pregnancy. I just wonder what the limit will be on condoms, for those that fuck it might not be enough.
Your insurance covers 1 per month, uhh when I was 18 that was good for a year.
Oregon has a program that will let you order 20 a month shipped to your door
how are we supposed to increase the birth rate without teen pregnancies?
Health Insurance needs to not exist and Universal Healthcare juts cover all the stuff people need to stay healthy and live productive lives. From sexual healthcare to mental healthcare and of course medicine and anything else you’d need to see a doctor or medical professional for.
Health Insurance needs to not exist
Australia has a hybrid system with both public and private health care, and I think there’s merit to that idea.
For example, some procedures have a long waiting list at public hospitals (given there’s limits to how much they can get done per day), but much shorter waits at private ones that are covered by private health plans. I never had private health coverage when I lived in Australia though.
As a fellow Australian, no. No there is not merit to it. It’s a two tier system, rigged for wealthier people to have better health outcomes.
Have you been to the GP lately? Have you seen what crazy out of pocket costs there are at hospitals? It’s gotten way worse in recent years.
Are you aware of the insanely different wait times between the public and private systems? It’s not a feature to pay to skip the cue.
Are you aware that if it’s not done in a hospital, then not even private health insurance can cover the gap if Medicare doesn’t?
Private health is a fucking scourge. And it’s a fucking joke to say that pay-walling healthcare makes overall wait times lower.
If we just had ACTUAL universal healthcare, wait-times would be equitable, and then maybe the upper end of town would actually want to fund healthcare properly, instead of these brain-dead tax cuts.
We are sitting on a pile of money (mining) that private companies are paying very little tax on.
We could be Norway. Would have been if we managed to get mining super tax through.
There is no merit to this bullshit private hybrid system. It’s getting worse by the year.
You really want to go the pharmacy and hand them your ID and insurance card while the look you up and say “actually these condoms are ‘ribbed for her pleasure’ rather than ‘skin-feel’ so are not covered, also you’re over your condom allowance”. That would be so awkward barely anyone would bother.
I mean depends on how many you get per month.
“Shit, sorry babe, I haven’t hit my deductable… I need some money for more condoms.”
They’ll give you the cheapo Lifestyles condoms from college campuses. The ones seemingly designed to break.
Those are still high quality compared to the Romed ones that were occasionally handed out at our high school. It’s a miracle my first girlfriend didn’t have to get an abortion tbh. We decided it was safer to just pull out.
Sounds like a good idea, I don’t see why not. Now if only I had health insurance…
I finally got insurance. Now if only I had sex.
In France you can just pick up condom packs for free at any drug store if you are under 26
They also say HIV testing for prevention needs to be covered but my state run institution violates it and charges $280. Fuck you MU Healthcare, you homophobic fucks!!!
That is awful. In MN you can get free HIV testing and free Prep, I can’t imagine paying hundreds of dollars for HIV testing.
No. They should be free to all people, even those without insurance.
I just don’t want to pay 20% of my income for it. How about that?
im genuinely trying to understand your concern… is it as simple as that you dont want to contribute your money to a greater good?
Ugh. This money isn’t going to the greater good. I want socialized medicine where I pay around 4% towards the greater good and not towards the profits of an insurance corporation.
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.
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.
Don’t be embarrassed, nobody gives a shit about that stuff. Also… if you’re using condoms… how would she not already know your dick size!?
Hot take: the few people still having sex can buy their own comdoms
Condoms are literally a public heath necessity. Even more so in states that banned abortion. My state provides free contraception to teens, and the drastic drop in stds and teen pregnancies paid off the funding for the program in months. Over the years tens of billions will be saved by my state.
