How do we persuade our partners that we should use a condom?
It can be difficult at best to talk about using condoms. But you shouldn't let embarrassment become a health risk. The person you are thinking about having sex with may not agree at first when you say that you want to use a condom when you have sex. These are some excuses and some answers that you could try...
EXCUSES & ANSWERS
Don't you trust me?.. Trust isn't the point, people can have infections without realizing it.
Sex doesn’t feel as good with a condom.. I'll feel more relaxed knowing that we’re both protected.
I am afraid to ask him to use a condom. He'll think I don't trust him…If you can't ask him, you don't trust him anyway.
I don't have a condom with me… I do!
It's up to him... it's his decision… No, it's your health too so it should be your decision too!
I'm on the pill, you don't need a condom… I'd like to use it anyway… It will help to protect us both from infections we may not realize we have.
Putting it on interrupts everything… Not if we make it a part of our foreplay!
I guess you don't really love me… I do, but I am not risking my life to prove it to you!
I will pull out in time… Women can get pregnant and get STIs from pre-ejaculate.
But I love you… Then you won't mind helping us to protect ourselves.
Just this once… Once is all it takes!
Female Condoms Rock!!!!!
Now imagine how the script is flipped when women are in control of whether or not we use a female condom. The possibilities are endless! No more begging and hoping he’ll agree to wrap it up. How much stress is involved when it comes down to our being in control of our bodies and reducing our risk of unintended pregnancies and STI’s. Especially since we can insert our condom up to eight hours before we even have sex. Wow!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Today Was A Good Day!
After that task was handled I had an even bigger task to handle and that was a 5 minute recorded speech that's due on Tuesday morning! I had intended to complete it before the weekend, I truely did. But here it was Saturday morning and I had nothing but the outline written up. I mean I knew that I wanted to talk about what female condoms are and how to use them but that was about it.
After I got finished shopping around town for a box of female condoms, with zero results because I was unable to find a store that carries them. Grrr! This was so frustrating for me because on the store shelves there were a million-gazillion male condoms in every store, but not one female condom!! I went back home to begin working on my speech. Thankfully I had a couple of female condoms that were given to me at the health department, so I used these to illustrate their use.
I'm still not used to having to speak with applied discipline. At least that's what I call it when I've got to preview and review and do this and that during these speeches. So it took me a few attempts to get a recording that I can live with. It didn't help at all knowing that if I left out a single component that I could get a zero for my grade! No pressure at all right? riiight.;)
In the midst of it all I try to remind myself that this is a process and once I'm finished with it, in the end I'll be a better woman and a better speaker. So let's rock! haha! I'm going to try and upload the finished product here on my blog so if you don't see it then I wasn't able to get it here. (Pull it up on youtube.com under cocoeskimo because I'm not able to upload it here unfortunately, but 1 out of 2 aint so bad!)
In the meantime, take care of you and win, lose or draw I'm going to take care of me too!
Peace & Blessings,
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