Free Condoms in High Schools. Do Your Schools Have Them?

[MineralMan]

Here in St. Paul, as well as in the other Twin City, Minneapolis, all public high schools make free condoms available to students. No parental permission is required. They aren't handing them out to everyone, but students can get them at any time.

I consider this to be an excellent, enlightened strategy, but wonder how many places offer them to their high school students? Are they available to students in your public schools?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Not mine but

My daughter knows where to find them in the house.

[MineralMan]

5. Good for you.

Way back in the early 1960s, my girlfriend's mother did the same for her daughter. Once it became apparent that we were fooling around in a serious way, she sat us down and had a frank talk with her daughter and me. She didn't try to break us up or anything. She just explained, in simple terms, how we could keep from getting pregnant and supplied them from then on. It shocked the crap out of me. but was a very smart move on her part, I think.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

7. Better to be safe

She still goes ewwww when I remind her they are there when she goes out lol

[MineralMan]

9. LOL!

Always a good sign.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Birth control pill should be handed out also, of course.

But soon all birth control will be illegal, of course. So...



Anyway, yeah, Gorsuch just needs one more appointment by trump or pence and everything is gone and I mean everything.

[MineralMan]

3. Yah, but you need a prescription for those.

Planned Parenthood will help out with that, wherever it hasn't been driven out of town.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Still? Hmm, I think it is time we sell them in pharmacies.

[MineralMan]

6. That keeps coming up, but so far hasn't gotten approval

from the FDA. You can get the morning after pill on request, but not the birth control pill. But, I agree with you.

[MineralMan]

10. In my early 1960s high school days, it actually was illegal, at

least for unmarried people under the age of 21. Condoms were labeled: For the Prevention of Disease ONLY!. The birth control pill was not yet on the market. The only real contraceptive method for women was a diaphragm and spermicidal jelly. It was a bad situation all around for sexually active teens. In my little high school class of 104, half a dozen girls got married before graduation because they were pregnant. A few others "visited their aunt" for a while. I knew of a couple of girls who had abortions from a local doctor who performed them quietly for some people.

Which all goes to show that some adolescents will have sex, regardless of the risks. They always have and always will.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. And promiscuous attitudes and behaviors are far more prevalent now.

So when, not if, they outlaw all birth control and abortion, shit will hit the fan big time.

But you know me, I think we will all die in a holocaust long before that happens.

[JenniferJuniper]

8. yes, they are available at my son's school

although I think you need to stop by the nurse's office to pick them up.

[Not Ruth]

12. Of course

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. My high school had them back in the 80s

but I would imagine the ratio of condoms that found their way to a penis vs. used as water balloons was shockingly low.