For the first time in a while I was in the public toilets, the ladies of course, which weren't on the university's campus, and all I could think was how far women's liberation has come and why is it most women's toilets don't have a condom machine!
They taught you all about it at school, so stop being dick about it!
From personal experience working in a shop I know that many men will get their girlfriends (or whoever the madam may be) to ask if the condoms are behind the counter, but are more willing to purchase them if they can pick them up themselves without feeling as though its some sort of big deal. If they're behind the counter it most be because their a big deal or something, you know. So I imagine guys, in some cases, would rather the anyominity of getting them from the toilets, not having to ask for them and having everyone around think what a dirty pervert he must be having protected sex with someone consenting. Then there's the ease of access issue, so even though they are readily available embarrassment is one thing that makes it a little more difficult but what about time, and as we all know in these situations, timing is everything. condom machines are more oftenly used in pubs and nightclubs than lets say restaurants and hotels, not to say they don't see plenty of fumbling for coins too. But the point here is when you're out with a few friends you mightn't have been expecting to meet someone who sweeps you off your feet and really catches you. You mightn't necessarily have one (or how ever many is wanted) in your back pocket or wallet. And guessing if your out, its late and the local chemist probably ain't opening, and even if it is such a detour could ruin the moment. But wait! The toilets, they'll be a machine in there, ad there is, TA-DAH you're sorted!
Well you would be if you're a guy, but what if its a woman ignititating this encounter? I think its unfair and even quite sexist to assume its a man's responsibility to carry with him at all times condoms, like you know, just in case! But let's go back to our hypothetical situation, he's out for a few drinks with his mates, he had no intention of chatting anyone up and probably didn't expect to be chatted up either, so you come over and he's expected to have everything ready for you
'You' is a general term, I don't mean you in particular, although lately I must say you seem to be going through them, maybe you should get tested or something, just in case, peace of mind and stuff, plus at this rate you could be the downfall of the entire human race!! But its ok, you're pretty sensible and you know what you want, so you have them, and all is right.
A Winner Every Time! Fresh breath and gonorrhea! What more could a girl want?!
So really why doesn't the ladies have a condom machine. Is it that its wholly our own responsibility to ensure we carry condoms with us at all time whereas men will be forgiven for being a little forgetful when they pack for a night on the town? Or is it that people forget the contraceptive pill and almost all forms of female contraceptive are to prevent pregnancy but not disease, that's what the male contraceptive is best at? Or is it just to unlady-like to even consider that a woman might find a sudden need for such things when she should be instead at home knitting sweaters for their husbands and anxiously awaiting their return?
Unfortunately I'm a little more inclined to the last. And I'm not for a moment saying that society frowns on women using contraceptive or it being available to them, but its the old joke that the machines purposely steal your money because you'll be too embarrassed to complain. They're not in the women's toilets because women don't argue their absence.
Yes, that's right this article is about condoms, classy condoms that make you look like trailer park scum!
All us ladies and well everyone else who has ever stepped into the 'facilities' of a pub, restaurant, hotel whatever will be familiar with the customary vending machines of sorts hanging from the walls. If its the ladies, one with sanitary towels, another with tampons and more often than not one with gum and mints. The men's then on the other hand has a condom machine. But I don't understand why in the ladies does Wrigley's get precedence over Durex (excuse the product placement). I mean, I can understand the lack of any of these machines but to install one over the other I don't understand. Now, I know Condoms, and most other types of contraceptive is readily and openly available to both men and women throughout the Western World, with Ireland as no exception, so why have condom machines at all? Well, the embarrassment that many suffer trying to buy them is one good reason and another is ease of access.
They taught you all about it at school, so stop being dick about it!From personal experience working in a shop I know that many men will get their girlfriends (or whoever the madam may be) to ask if the condoms are behind the counter, but are more willing to purchase them if they can pick them up themselves without feeling as though its some sort of big deal. If they're behind the counter it most be because their a big deal or something, you know. So I imagine guys, in some cases, would rather the anyominity of getting them from the toilets, not having to ask for them and having everyone around think what a dirty pervert he must be having protected sex with someone consenting. Then there's the ease of access issue, so even though they are readily available embarrassment is one thing that makes it a little more difficult but what about time, and as we all know in these situations, timing is everything. condom machines are more oftenly used in pubs and nightclubs than lets say restaurants and hotels, not to say they don't see plenty of fumbling for coins too. But the point here is when you're out with a few friends you mightn't have been expecting to meet someone who sweeps you off your feet and really catches you. You mightn't necessarily have one (or how ever many is wanted) in your back pocket or wallet. And guessing if your out, its late and the local chemist probably ain't opening, and even if it is such a detour could ruin the moment. But wait! The toilets, they'll be a machine in there, ad there is, TA-DAH you're sorted!
Well you would be if you're a guy, but what if its a woman ignititating this encounter? I think its unfair and even quite sexist to assume its a man's responsibility to carry with him at all times condoms, like you know, just in case! But let's go back to our hypothetical situation, he's out for a few drinks with his mates, he had no intention of chatting anyone up and probably didn't expect to be chatted up either, so you come over and he's expected to have everything ready for you
'You' is a general term, I don't mean you in particular, although lately I must say you seem to be going through them, maybe you should get tested or something, just in case, peace of mind and stuff, plus at this rate you could be the downfall of the entire human race!! But its ok, you're pretty sensible and you know what you want, so you have them, and all is right.Except that's not what happens, is it? Its all very spur of the moment, one minute ye're just talking the next kissing and then you're running into the toilets 'to freshen up' as he's calling a taxi. There's no machine! Well there is but its got disposable little toothbrush things in it! And sorry to break the news but that won't do anything to stop you from catching any of the many disgusting sexually transmitted diseases out there. And that's just presuming that any woman in question uses other forms of contraceptive to avoid becoming pregnant.
A Winner Every Time! Fresh breath and gonorrhea! What more could a girl want?!So really why doesn't the ladies have a condom machine. Is it that its wholly our own responsibility to ensure we carry condoms with us at all time whereas men will be forgiven for being a little forgetful when they pack for a night on the town? Or is it that people forget the contraceptive pill and almost all forms of female contraceptive are to prevent pregnancy but not disease, that's what the male contraceptive is best at? Or is it just to unlady-like to even consider that a woman might find a sudden need for such things when she should be instead at home knitting sweaters for their husbands and anxiously awaiting their return?
Unfortunately I'm a little more inclined to the last. And I'm not for a moment saying that society frowns on women using contraceptive or it being available to them, but its the old joke that the machines purposely steal your money because you'll be too embarrassed to complain. They're not in the women's toilets because women don't argue their absence.
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