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.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    64·
    2 months ago

    Maybe another myth can be cleared out too, the one of “one size fits all”. Curiously it is totally okay to have smaller condoms, but mot bigger…

    Too small condoms give exactly the effect you’re describing, IMO.

    • Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 months ago

      Absolutely, all store brand condoms are too small for me. My girlfriend ordered me “myone” brand custom condoms and sex was suddenly enjoyable again. Take some measurements fellas and get condoms that fit.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        The 64 and 69 (mm) from Condomerie in Amsterdam gets my recommendation (if durex xxl and that similar american magnum xxl? are too small) they ship worldwide.

    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      This was my exact problem and after like a decade i read something and had the ‘oh shit, they mean width not length in size’, being an ‘modest average’ length i never considered buying the larger sizes.
      I hope someone reads this comments and also actually checks to see if the same oversight is self-sabotaging their enjoyment.