Condom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults. The decline in condom use is due to a combination of medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying levels of sex ed

Fewer young people are having sex, but the teens and young adults who are sexually active aren’t using condoms as regularly, if at all. And people ages 15 to 24 made up half of new chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases in 2022.

The downward trend in condom usage is due to a few things: medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections; a fading fear of contracting HIV; and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools.

Is this the end of condoms? Not exactly. But it does have some public health experts thinking about how to help younger generations have safe sex, be aware of their options — condoms included — and get tested for STIs regularly.

  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      Just do it with the mouth 👄 😺

      Crazy stuff though to force you to do that, good but crazy.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Well that’s not effective training at all. They should have gotten you drunk and simulated a wedding reception.