Back when they used to teach Sex Ed. All of us (boys and girls) had to try to put a condom on a banana. The kicker was we were wearing goggles with vaseline smeared on the lens and had thick rubber gloves on.

This was to simulate trying to put on a condom well under the influence.

No one could have predicted it. It was completely out of left field. Unheard of. I’m saying that this is unprecedented. We couldn’t have known! Lé sigh.

Public funding? In my freedom!? Get that communist nonsense out of here!!!

Digital condoms are 100% effective

One 40k lore book and a Minecraft account and you're golden. No grandbabies.

I was ahead of the curve and doing that over 30 years ago! No online, though...

Maybe another myth can be cleared out too, the one of "one size fits all". Curiously it is totally okay to have smaller condoms, but mot bigger...

Too small condoms give exactly the effect you're describing, IMO.

Were you trying the good kind or the cheap ones they give out for free at health centers? I started with the free ones and they were terrible. I tried the Trojan sample packs and found that I didn't even notice the condom any more. One time I actually had to stop and make sure it didn't break because it literally felt like it wasn't even there!

I still have trouble maintaining when I stop to even put the condom on, but that's a separate issue.

I got those crappy condoms they gave out for free. It also dulled the sensation to the point of losing my erection.

Years later I found out that store bought condoms actually can feel good. If I had known that, maybe I would have used them.

For me it was the opposite, I needed the dulling to go a reasonable amount of time, but that wasn't addressed either. There are ultra thin condoms, and lubing up before bagging up can help.

I had the same problem when I was younger. I then ordered a pack of most brands out there to find what worked for me. I landed on Crown. Even then, it's still not as good. I have since had a vasectomy and only use condoms to keep my toys safe.

But yeah, none of this is taught to teens. Education in america is a fucking joke.

I just stopped making PI* the main course of my sexual banquette. There's much better ways to spend time with a sexy person.

it's lack of sensation for me since i'm uncircumcised and the 2 layers when i wear a condom guarantees no sensation.

i suspect that you don't hear much about this subject because it's the Achilles heals of condoms where nothing will help it and people don't engage unless they think they have something that can help.

Sure but do realize you are an outlier. In general teens are More likely to orgasm prematurely and a thin modern condom is a relatively minor sensory barrier and can improve the duration of sexual encounters

This is really unprovable, but my theory is that this is also another result of late-stage capitalistic exhaustion. While young people still want to be ethical and moral and safe, there's a lot of moment-to-moment existential rebellion with so many layers of rules, norms and expectations.

It's similar to the rise of "treat" habits - if there's no realistic possibility of the American dream and house and white picket fence and kids for an average worker's salary, you have a moment of probably irresponsible spending that feels life affirming, to shake off the feeling of being in a Matrix pod that's sucking out your life force in the most efficient manner possible.

Hence, no condom! Or something.

This is what you get when you constantly gut education

For one thing, modern hiv treatments are sufficient to let people live basically normal lives (and more or less stops one from transmitting to sexual partners.)

It’s basically now “just” a chronic condition that requires managing, not a death sentence.

Because PrEP exists, which when taken as prescribed reduces the chance of HIV transmission by ~99%.

HIV transmission virtually eliminated in Inner Sydney, Australia | International AIDS Society (IAS) - https://www.iasociety.org/news-release/hiv-transmission-virtually-eliminated-inner-sydney-australia

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) | HIV Risk and Prevention | HIV/AIDS | CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/prep/index.html

Antibiotic-resistant strains of chlamydia have been spreading, actually.

Hep C too. Not incurable, but you really don't want to get any BBPs.

I would immediately cite anti-LGBTQIA+ sentimentality as the contributing factor. While lots of people understand that homosexuals aren’t the only people who can contract the infection, I’m sure the treatments being aimed primarily at homosexuals as the highest risk group, will make certain people unwilling to believe it is a potential risk.

It sucks that safe sex isn’t a thing being discussed. However it does feel like anti-abortion laws would be unnecessary if teens had access to sought information. I’m sure with the advent of Internet based pornography, teens are being influenced more by that with no educational tools to say that people in pornography (I am sure not everyone across the industry follows health guidelines but for the “professionals” you’d hope they do) have access to testing and other health related care.

If we are going to be cynical about this, one reason I suspect sex education is no longer being thought would be to fall inline with twisted alt-right/conservative values about women NEEDING to have children. With lack of information about contraception, teens might believe they can’t be safe. Maybe they actually have access to contraception but aren’t aware. Maybe contraception is being banned. If you have no contraception, then the rate of pregnancy will increase and maybe those anti-abortion lawmakers wish to see more unwanted pregnancies instead of anyone wishing to engage in recreational sex that doesn’t aim for procreation.

Because HIV isn't an automatic death sentence anymore, as long as one has access to the drugs available.