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I am member of Youth First Texas, a GLBT youth center in Dallas and Thursday we had a presentation by a manager from Aids Arms. It's one of the few times I've had a comprehensive sex education lecture.
Darriane started with statistics and in Dallas county the largest age group with newly reported infections was 15 -24. Without fail and for every infection, this age group, my age group had the largest number of documented infections. This isn't just my age group but almost everyone I know is in this age group, most of my best friends, one of my sisters, both of my gaybies.
www.dallascounty.org/department/hhs/documents/DCHHSSTD2010Final.pdf
She then asked us why are condoms not always used. One answer was they don't feel the same. Another was putting on a condom kills the mood and another was condoms weren't always available.
She answered these responses by bringing out a huge box of condoms, lubes, and a prop penis and vagina. She told us that condoms had changed and there were actually fun condoms. She had ribbed condoms and condoms that glowed in the dark, flavored lube and numbing lube, female condoms and dental dams. She challenged us to try them and see if they weren't fun. She showed up condoms with looser plastic around the head that were called "the pleasure dome." She said see if a game of "hide and come get it" kills the mood.
She told us about waiting and how it too is an important aspect of sex. She talked about cases were the age difference was a huge factor and a legal issue. There was a lot of information and a lot of laughs and at the end of the presentation she let us have our picks of the condoms and lube. It was funny seeing parents and volunteers taking some of the equipment too.
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