• Dremor@lemmy.world
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    I seriously can’t understand those who don’t use condoms by default. No contraceptive is 100% foolproof, so using a backup is always a good thing.

    And seriously, if the friction is the only thing that make you enjoy sex, and not with whom you have sex with, you seriously should reconsider your relationship.

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    Broadly speaking I agree since entitled guys certainly exist but also I’ve heard some women describe condom sex as feeling like getting fucked with a sandwich baggie and not their favorite

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    The last two sentences are why, unfortunately, birth control will always be the primary purview of women.

    No matter how good, convenient or easily usable birth control for men becomes, women are the ones who actually have to deal with the consequences of unintended pregnancy, and not using birth control yourself risks you having to deal with it when your partner either lies to you about using it, or simply makes a mistake and forgets to use it.

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    Second panel should be the guy asking why she hasn’t changed to one of the other dozen plus methods she has available, then. Women have lots of options, and can almost always find one with no/tolerable (especially compared to pregnancy) side effects, because hormone-free barrier methods are among the options for her, too.

    Edit: tweaked for less ‘absolute’ wording.

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      The unfortunate thing with birth control is there’s always tradeoffs with every method. IUDs can cause intense pain which may or may not go away after a while, the depo shot can cause a loss of bone density if used for a long period of time, condoms are less pleasurable and depending on the specifics may cause additional discomfort. Pulling out requires you to trust your male partner (a huge ask most of the time) surgical sterilization is basically permanent and requires one to undergo and recover from surgery (and for women an extremely invasive one at that)

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    I prefer to be on the pill, honestly. I get that it isn’t the sane experience fir everyone, but there are multiple other options other than the two mentioned. Even when it comes to pills, there is also the mini pill which has no estrogen and therefore can help with some of the negative symptoms. I started taking that one because I had a few negative reactions to regular birth control pills.

    With the mini pill you have to be pretty precise with the time of day where you take it but once you have that down, it’s just so pleasant. In my case, it entirely stops menstruation and stabilizes me. I get to live a very normal life without all this cycle shit disrupting me.

    I get that not all women feel about their periods like I do, but for me, it has always felt like an assault on my body that I have to be in pain, have crazy mood swings and feeling gross every single month. I don’t have any of it anymore thanks to the mini pill.

    Again, there are many more options to go for when it comes to birth control, other than pills and condoms and in general I don’t want us to demonize it. Especially not in these times where there is a genuine push in American politics to spread anti-birthcontrol propaganda online.

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    It’s my personal opinion that having sex with a condom is worse than not having sex, and I’m not getting a vasectomy until I’m confident I never want kids. Their reversibility is dubious at best and it’s not worth the risk if you aren’t 100% sure. I’m pretty sure I’ll never have kids, but I’m not even confident enough about how I’ll feel a decade from now to get a tattoo… so making such a big choice is out of the question.

    I’m happy to just not have sex with women who aren’t on birth control. If you feel this is wrong, the solution is simple. We can just not have sex together. Problem solved.

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      It’s my personal opinion that having sex with a condom is worse than not having sex

      Hard disagree. Good sex with a condom is still good sex. Plus if your reason for using a condom is birth control you only need the condom for PIV, and everything else can be completely unwrapped. I don’t know about everyone else but I fucking love foreplay and just worshipping my partner’s body while they do the same to me. Honestly it’s the best part of having sex

      Plus there’s something super sexy about getting all hot and heavy, teasing and playing then grabbing the condom and unwrapping it. The moment you or your partner break that package open there’s a commitment that this thing is going on thos penis because this penis is about to go into this vagina, and it’s happening right now, not in 20 minutes after more play, it’s happening right now.

      Or don’t just take my word for it, take GirlOnTheNet’s word for it (obviously NSFW!)

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      until I’m confident I never want kids

      With the way the world is going, reproducing is certainly a choice. But if it truly remains a concern, there is the option of freezing sperm.

      I got a vasectomy and it has been amazing. Easily one of the best decisions of my life.

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        With the way the world is going, reproducing is certainly a choice.

        Oh, please, with this nihilistic nonsense. When in history would you have said “it’s a great time to reproduce!”?

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      Mostly because the women I have been with were long term and they preferred not having a condom and on the pill. So I agree with them. It does feel better. But I always try one for the first few times. But it always migrated to not using one.

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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    Condoms do 100% suck. Especially if they hacked off a piece of your dick that significantly reduces its sensitivity and function when you were a baby.

    I literally do not enjoy condom sex at all. That’s why I got a vasectomy. And also I don’t want kids ever anyway and I wish I had gotten a vasectomy the instant I hit 18, what a waste.

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    You don’t want a kid? Man up and get a vasectomy.

    Took ~2 days of discomfort afterward and now I’m shooting vegan cream pies all day long.

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    I had trouble till (hormonal) IUD, would never discount the side effects of most birth control available to women - copper IUD nearly killed me with hemorrhage, and pills raised my blood pressure, anything that went inside me (diaphragm, etc) either gave me yeast infection or bladder infection, so many of the methods seem designed to punish women for wanting sex without pregnancy.

    But I’d think guys would love condoms because it’s the only reversible birth control they can control themselves.

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      But I’d think guys would love condoms because it’s the only reversible birth control they can control themselves.

      Yeah, what’s with that? Why are there dozens of different birth control options for women, and men have exactly condoms, permanent sterilization and nothing else?

      You’d think there would be some kind of decent male birth control by now. It’s been 65 years since the first hormonal birth control for women was released. It’s been more than enough time to get something decent done for men too.

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      Condoms can reduce sensitivity, but I don’t understand the hate. Is sex for some people some kind of race to see who can cum first? Try taking your time and enjoy it.
      If you can’t cum with a condom on, maybe the problem isn’t the condom? Get your blood pressure checked. One of the first things I noticed when I started having issue with high blood pressure, was that the extra BP created a bit of extra “hardness”, but also reduced my sensitivity.

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      so many of the methods seem designed to punish women for wanting sex without pregnancy.

      Yes, that’s right, the people inventing these contraceptives were all huddled in a room twirling their misogyny mustaches, discussing “okay, we’re going to make this thing that prevents pregnancy, but we have to MAKE SURE it has unpleasant side effects, these women must be punished!”

      Please.

      But I’d think guys would love condoms because it’s the only reversible birth control they can control themselves.

      Guys do like that, but not as much as they dislike the fact that it makes sex a lot less pleasurable, which is the primary reason they want to have sex in the first place. That’s why a lot of guys, like me, would rather just not have sex with a woman, if the only ‘safe’ (re both STIs and pregnancy) way to have sex with her, is with a condom on.

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    The amount of guys I’ve met in my whole life who outright refused to wear a condom was… One. Singular.

    Called him an idiot. Then he ended up catching an STD. His dick burned for two weeks and I couldn’t stop smiling.

    Anyway, this seems to be another one of those comics that tries present abnormal behaviour as a common thing.

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      Not only that, but the fact is, the vast majority of the time a Bad Thing (e.g. STI transmission or unwanted pregnancy) happens from unprotected sex, it’s because both partners simply didn’t care enough to use anything. Even taking the idiot in your example, he got laid in the end, that’s how he got what he got.

      Without these idiots of both sexes, unwanted pregnancy would be extremely rare, and almost no STI would survive longer than a generation.

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        There’s nothing more sad or depressing than an unwanted child that two people ruined their lives over.

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      The point is not how common or uncommon this is. The point is the phenomenon itself. Also, your personal experience in how common this is cannot be used as a basis for knowing the general prevalence. The truth is, it does happen. Not all men, but always men.

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        Not all men, but always men

        “Not all X but it’s always X” is a common neonazi saying. Using it in a different context can even be a dogwhistle in some cases

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        Not all men, but always men.

        1. No shit, we’re talking about condoms, goofball.
        2. How would you feel about someone saying “throwing your newborn into a dumpster, women are horrible…the truth is, it does happen. Not all women, but always women”? Would you instantly magically understand the massive logical flaw once the ‘target’ isn’t a demo you’re already biased against?
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        Idk why the comment acts like woman themselves dont choose to do it outside of relationships

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      Depends on where you live/your cultural context. The number of times I’ve heard from women in recent years that men refuse to wear condoms has been truly surprising.

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        Surprises me cause I bet decent men won’t have problems with a condom while most substandard men would. No one talks about decent men as much as ones that are bad. Also, if you hear many speak about these men, maybe their preference in men is flawed?