Condom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults. The decline in condom use is due to a combination of medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections, a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying levels of sex ed

Fewer young people are having sex, but the teens and young adults who are sexually active aren’t using condoms as regularly, if at all. And people ages 15 to 24 made up half of new chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases in 2022.

The downward trend in condom usage is due to a few things: medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections; a fading fear of contracting HIV; and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools.

Is this the end of condoms? Not exactly. But it does have some public health experts thinking about how to help younger generations have safe sex, be aware of their options — condoms included — and get tested for STIs regularly.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    2411·
    28 days ago

    Who’d have thought banning sex ed in schools would result in unsafe sex amongst teens!?

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      421·
      28 days ago

      No one could have predicted it. It was completely out of left field. Unheard of. I’m saying that this is unprecedented. We couldn’t have known! Lé sigh.

    • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      28 days ago

      Back when they used to teach Sex Ed. All of us (boys and girls) had to try to put a condom on a banana. The kicker was we were wearing goggles with vaseline smeared on the lens and had thick rubber gloves on.

      This was to simulate trying to put on a condom well under the influence.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        17·
        28 days ago

        Just do it with the mouth 👄 😺

        Crazy stuff though to force you to do that, good but crazy.

      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        27 days ago

        Well that’s not effective training at all. They should have gotten you drunk and simulated a wedding reception.