Hmm.. don't condoms benefit girls too?

Samantha_Cruz · 2018-02-11T23:01:15+00:00

Who is giving out 'free condoms' and why? Most likely it is an effort to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease and is funded as preventative medicine. Is there some specific medical issue that tampons prevent?

taylor_98 · 2018-02-11T23:24:22+00:00

Hear that everyone? Condoms don’t benefit women. So when they want you to wear one during sex ask why she wants it so badly.

HessiBabe97 · 2018-02-11T22:57:25+00:00

I think the message she is trying to convey could have been done without man hating...

duhhhh · 2018-02-12T02:08:59+00:00

Women get all contraception free under ACA rules. Men do not.

wisty · 2018-02-12T03:51:31+00:00

Most common STDs effect women worse than men.

The same goes for abortions.

Pregnancy and childbirth obviously.

While MRAs might argue that having unwanted children can effect men more than women (or just differently), certainly neither gender gets a free pass.

Condoms at my university were freely available in the women's only room (as well as a few other locations).

StrongAffordance · 2018-02-12T11:28:37+00:00

Also there should be free toilet paper because it’s hard to not shit.

chadwickofwv · 2018-02-12T13:29:04+00:00

Their problem with free condoms is that it doesn't benefit women exclusively.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2018-02-12T05:09:47+00:00

That's not how "afford" works.

There are more girls who menstruate than sexually active couples, but that's not the same as sexual encounters.

But use some numbers!

The average American 15 and older has sex 60 times a year. That's roughly 250 million Americans times 60, but divided by two since sex is two people and it's not like each partner is a wearing a condom for each encounter, so 7.5 billion condoms per year.

There are about 75 million women of reproductive age in the US, and let's assume that on average they are regular with a full 28 day cycle(so 13 cycles a year) and menses lasts 4-8 days, and tampons are to be changed every 4-8 hours

So the largest number of tampons that would have to be used would be changing every 4 hours(6 per day) and for 8 days, 13 times a year, times 75 million women, or 46.8 billion tampons.

The fewest would be changing every 8 hours for only 4 days per cycle, or 11.7 billion tampons.

Condoms per unit are about twice the cost of tampons from my cursory googling.

So unless most women are mostly light in both length and severity of their cycles, and even when assuming every sexual encounter involves a condom, condoms are cheaper to provide. It's possible to afford one and not the other.

mrwhibbley · 2018-02-12T13:06:19+00:00

Funny thing was that when I was in college the push was to get free condoms in the hands of the women as it was believed that they would benefit more than the men they engaged in sex with. Also, the consoles weren't distributed by a government agency funded by taxpayers, they were funded by a school group and distributed by the health department at the school, resident directors, and other group activities.

toyz-z · 2018-02-12T16:02:26+00:00

dont some women's bathrooms do have free period products?

ExpendableOne · 2018-02-12T16:51:08+00:00

I don't understand why a woman could complain about free condoms. Condoms are literally the least enjoyable form of contraception for men. They offer the least amount of friction/contact for men. How many women actually enjoy female condoms or IUDs? How many women would actually feel safe from STD's while relying on the pill? How many women would even accept to use a female condom, even if it was freely given to them? Most wouldn't and just demand that a man wear a male condom instead(and men would do it, because they just want to have sex and will do whatever women demand of them for it). Traditional condoms benefit women as much, if not more, then they benefit men.

MGTOWtoday · 2018-02-13T04:58:52+00:00

If she wants something free, send her to my house, I’ll hose her off in my driveway. No charge. 😂

quaderrordemonstand · 2018-02-12T01:58:20+00:00

I don't see how tampons are contraception. The closest analogy I can find is shavers, which are not free for men. Tissues?

gbBaku · 2018-02-12T05:05:01+00:00

I don't think this is manhating. This is just ignorance.

Eastuss · 2018-02-12T09:11:53+00:00

If we want to fund personal hygiene, there are a freaking lot of things to fund before their tampon. Premenstrual cups are cheaper and better on almost every aspects btw.

An equivalent would be give away female condoms for free.

konichiwaaaaaa · 2018-02-12T06:13:45+00:00

I don't see how tampons and condoms are connected?

One is to avoid STIs, STDs and babies FOR BOTH PARTNERS, the other is a convenience for the modern woman who has more frequent and longer periods than women had in the past. When they had it, women would use absorbent, often reusable, materials. Source

Plus, as a well-off straight man with a boring life, I have never been given free condoms. I'm guessing those are given to the unfortunate or people at risk or in some places I don't frequent.

boringcarpets · 2018-02-12T07:40:09+00:00

Every time I see an argument for free tampons or the like, it always baffles me that, as a man, even I know things like the moon cup exists, which means no risk of toxic shock and the "cost" is far reduced - if they don't want to spend money on tampons they literally don't have to.

The idea of free or reduced price or untaxed tampons is one the dumbest gripes they have because alternatives exist but, as always, why should they have to change their behaviour when they can throw tantrums for everything else to change

Title	Hmm.. don't condoms benefit girls too?
Author	HessiBabe97
Upvotes	96
Comments	92
Date	February 11, 2018 10:56 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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