If you can buy a value meal, you can buy new condoms
If you can buy a value meal, you can buy new condoms
Unofficial sex-ed course: Let’s settle these condom myths here and now
Writer’s note: This post was originally published on Medium’s “We Need to Talk” on September 25, 2020.
As a self-admitted tree hugger and a reluctant blocker of coronavirus babies, I fully understand eco-friendly people who are trying to practice safe sex. Sustainably sourced latex? Do you. Vegan condoms? OK, fine. But who in their right mind keeps buying and selling used condoms? And who is giving them to these sellers?
CNN reports that Vietnam police recently confiscated approximately 345,000 used condoms that had been cleaned and resold as new. The used prophylactics were boiled in water, then dried and reshaped on a wooden phallus, before being repackaged and resold.
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Whose soul is so empty that they would take the time to sell these?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state in plain language: “Don’t reuse a condom.” While latex can be reused for quite a few things — rubber bands, balloons, shoe soles, gloves, catheters and stethoscopes — condoms just are not in this bunch. It’s not a plastic bag.
While it is easy to wag a finger at companies trying to trick us, it’s another for the CDC to have to tell people not to re-use condoms anyway. If you can afford a Filet o’ Fish meal, you can afford a 20-pack of condoms, cheapskate!
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While we’re on the subject of condoms
CDC also warned users not to use cooking oil on condoms for fear it will break. When did sex have the same startup instructions as frying bacon? Baby oil, lotion and petroleum jelly are out, too, but why are these even up for questioning? If you are guilty of using any of the above, I hope you don’t wash your sheets in community laundry rooms. All of them must look like you clean fast food restaurant counters for fun.
Of course some CDC tips are legitimately overlooked and reasonable:
Do not store condoms in wallets due to heat and friction.
Do not use nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide), which can risk irritation.
Do not use a condom after its expiration date. (If you’re not someone who is really active, this date can too easily creep up on you. Stick it on a Google calendar to remind yourself, if need be.)
Do use latex or polyurethane condoms.
Do use water-based or silicone-based lubricant to prevent breakage.