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Remember those urban legends about sex you heard as a teenager that you now know are completely untrue? I sure do, and I’ve got some doozies! How about...
Damn near anything can get you pregnant, from French kissing to blowjobs to toilet seats. Of course, PIV sex can do it too.
Sex/IV drug use/blood transfusions all can give you HIV (let’s ignore that one person has to have HIV, it doesn’t materialize out of thin air).
Condoms don’t protect against HPV. (So why bother using condoms, they don’t work. See, see?) But if you must use a condom, why not two?
Pulling out works, and precum doesn’t get anyone pregnant. (Both bullshit.)
One of my good friends from high school found a boyfriend a couple of years older than her that lived a couple of towns away. He didn’t like condoms because he had a Prince Albert (Google that, NSFW) - of course, I needed to know about this. Sure enough, she was pregnant by the end of our senior year. Our class valedictorian was demoted to 3rd in class so they wouldn’t have a girl with a large belly giving a speech, and they considered barring her from graduation entirely. My cousin had two children by the time she was 16. I’m still not sure why so many myths were going around, especially as everyone knew people who’d figured it out.
There was a healthy practice of technical virginity and probably more (unprotected) anal sex than PIV. A little later in life I knew a guy who made a point of going to bars, walking up to women, buying them a drink, announcing his intention to get laid that night and if she might be interested they can keep talking about it (otherwise, enjoy the drink). This was surprisingly effective - I never knew of him not getting laid every weekend by someone different.
This isn’t even including all of the stuff thrown out there by the fundies. By their estimation, I should be blind, have leprosy, and my dick should have fallen off by now. Most of us think of male masturbation as “killing babies” to be a joke, but they took it serious. Never did hear them want to hold a funeral though because a dude rubbed one out.
Then came the SCA, where 24 hours changed my life forever. :)
Still, with this wonderful background in colloquial sex ed, I persevered, managed to stay D/D free as far as I know, and even procreated as I desired. Now I hear all the rage is Tinder, a social networking app that links you to people nearby who also use the service for purposes of casual encounters. Before that it was Craigslist casual encounters, or AdultFriendFinder, or whatever. (Protip: if you see porn on your partner’s computer, don’t sweat it. Sweat it though if you find a bunch of online dating sites.)
While my readers probably don’t need the reminder, seriously, go hit ScarletTeen if you need any factual advice on anything regarding bodies and sexuality - even grownups can find the information they need. But do it before you get some pot laced with rat poison.
Damn near anything can get you pregnant, from French kissing to blowjobs to toilet seats. Of course, PIV sex can do it too.
Sex/IV drug use/blood transfusions all can give you HIV (let’s ignore that one person has to have HIV, it doesn’t materialize out of thin air).
Condoms don’t protect against HPV. (So why bother using condoms, they don’t work. See, see?) But if you must use a condom, why not two?
Pulling out works, and precum doesn’t get anyone pregnant. (Both bullshit.)
One of my good friends from high school found a boyfriend a couple of years older than her that lived a couple of towns away. He didn’t like condoms because he had a Prince Albert (Google that, NSFW) - of course, I needed to know about this. Sure enough, she was pregnant by the end of our senior year. Our class valedictorian was demoted to 3rd in class so they wouldn’t have a girl with a large belly giving a speech, and they considered barring her from graduation entirely. My cousin had two children by the time she was 16. I’m still not sure why so many myths were going around, especially as everyone knew people who’d figured it out.
There was a healthy practice of technical virginity and probably more (unprotected) anal sex than PIV. A little later in life I knew a guy who made a point of going to bars, walking up to women, buying them a drink, announcing his intention to get laid that night and if she might be interested they can keep talking about it (otherwise, enjoy the drink). This was surprisingly effective - I never knew of him not getting laid every weekend by someone different.
This isn’t even including all of the stuff thrown out there by the fundies. By their estimation, I should be blind, have leprosy, and my dick should have fallen off by now. Most of us think of male masturbation as “killing babies” to be a joke, but they took it serious. Never did hear them want to hold a funeral though because a dude rubbed one out.
Then came the SCA, where 24 hours changed my life forever. :)
Still, with this wonderful background in colloquial sex ed, I persevered, managed to stay D/D free as far as I know, and even procreated as I desired. Now I hear all the rage is Tinder, a social networking app that links you to people nearby who also use the service for purposes of casual encounters. Before that it was Craigslist casual encounters, or AdultFriendFinder, or whatever. (Protip: if you see porn on your partner’s computer, don’t sweat it. Sweat it though if you find a bunch of online dating sites.)
While my readers probably don’t need the reminder, seriously, go hit ScarletTeen if you need any factual advice on anything regarding bodies and sexuality - even grownups can find the information they need. But do it before you get some pot laced with rat poison.