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Oregon has a program that will let you order 20 a month shipped to your door

I finally got insurance. Now if only I had sex.

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.

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.

They'll give you the cheapo Lifestyles condoms from college campuses. The ones seemingly designed to break.

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.

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.

Their utility in both sexual and nonsexual applications makes coverage for just one use impractical. Soil testing machines and powdered metal formers use condoms to contain the loose material in the pressure vessel. They make hilarious balloons. They can keep gunpowder dry in combat.

I interned at a reseach lab that had powdered metal machines that used condoms. For a while, condoms were available as an open stores item. They pulled them due to way more being consumed than made sense for the amount of powdered metal research.

And size :-/