Obligatory not today, but it keeps me awake at night at least once a week.
Years ago, I was dating this guy who, around the time we broke up, tested positive for chlamydia and accused me of giving it to him. I did not experience the same symptoms as him, so I decided to go get checked to clear my name.
As soon as I’m in the doctor’s office, they ask me all kinds of health questions. I explain that I’ve never had an STD before and my partner tested positive. Once all the testing is done, they bring me a very large box of condoms and tell me to take whatever I want. The results have NOT come back yet.
I look through this box, pick out a couple of condoms, and find flavored condoms. I said “I never understood why they have flavors, I’m not going to taste it when I have sex.” AND LAUGHED.
It wasn’t until I was driving home that I realized people use flavored condoms for safe oral sex. I ended up testing negative for all STDs and embarassed myself regardless in the process.
TL;DR got tested for an STD because my then boyfriend tested positive for chlamydia and blamed it on (he got it from cheating on me and attempted to blame his status on me as an excuse to break up with me) then embarassed myself at the doctor’s by not knowing what flavored condoms were used for and possibly reinforcing their idea that I do it raw frequently.
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“Flavored” condoms were also my first realization that people use condoms for more than traditional sex. My girlfriend at the time (wife now) and I bought them, durex flavored condoms, just to try them out and they are awful. Crazy tight, the flavor is (according to my wife) like plastic but someone is whispering the name of the fruit from another room lol. We ended up throwing them out, not a tufu but definitely a learning experience.
If I feel I need a condom to receive oral from someone, it’s definitely a hard pass in general.
This is why actual sex education is being fought so hard to keep!
Just a heads up, Chlamydia can be asymptomatic, it’s not even that uncommon for it to be.
Coincidentally I also got it from my ex cheating x.x
Honest question: has anyone honestly used a flavored condom for oral AND actually gotten off?
I also like flavored condoms for having safe sex with a condom, and then taking it off for oral sex when we choose to switch it up in the middle. Regular condoms make the penis taste like latex and it’s so gross. Flavored condoms don’t have that problem
I spoke with my Dr and he went on to tell me that Men experience STDs very differently than women. In the sense that we, men, may be positive for them but experience very little to no immediate side effects. It may take months for them to present themselves.
So if you’re a new couple, then this may be the reason as his previous partner gave it to him. Otherwise I’m sorry but he may have gotten it from another person.
But yes. Condoms prevent all the STDs which yes can be transmitted via oral sex, all but HIV which is very rare but no study has been done for HIV through Oral. In any case, I love my flavored condoms.
Flavored condoms make me think of the “boysenberry pie junk” scene from the movie Juno.
I mean you seen that guy a few scrolls down making lemonade in condoms and selling it, woof.
The ribbed ones don’t taste like ribs tho
If it makes you feel better: I grew up in a very sheltered home and despite having gone through puberty; I had extremely little concept of sex. When I was fourteen or fifteen I was doing a group project in school about evolution and my group was assigned something about the evolution of STIs. My group consisted of a punk kid, a hippie stoner and myself. Punk wanted to cover the board in condoms, so the hippie’s mom went out and bought us a bunch including flavored ones. She gave them to us and I sort of innocently was like “what are condoms? Some kind of candy?”
Punk kid took pity on me and very lovingly took me to the side, talked me through what they were, how they worked, why they were lubed, why they were flavored; ad basically gave me my first real comprehensive sex talk. Bless that kind punk.