Most of the boys I know get their condoms at a gas station but not
from a dispenser. The owner keeps them under the counter.
Otherwise some boys will have more experienced friends buy them,
or else travel to a nearby small town drugstore. There are no
vending machines for condoms in our vicinity.
In the city if a person is looking for a place to buy condom, he can
usually find it in one of the many drugstores. The individual might
have a friend who works there and might get them for him if he
doesn't want to do it in public.
He always used a condom, which he secured at the drugstore where
he worked.
Availability of contraceptives-parents
In my search for Playboy magazines and the like, I found a box of
rubbers that belonged to my father... I kept a pack of three in case I
ever had to use them. I also found a single rubber. I had never seen
one so I tried it on. I remember getting very excited as I put it on
my erect penis. I didn't ejaculate, but I threw the condom away. I
think I was about fourteen or fifteen at this time, but I never got to
use them until I was in college.
The condom I used was one she found in her father's dresser
drawer.
I keep condoms in a drawer at home for the use of my teenage sons.
We never discuss it, but they are apparently being used.
Contraceptive methods-coitus interruptus (withdrawal)
I felt myself about to ejaculate. I quickly removed my penis just in
time to shoot semen all over her stomach. I had had intercourse!
I reassured her she wouldn't get pregnant. I felt my release coming
and immediately withdrew.
He convinced me that he could control himself and that nothing
would happen.We practiced coitus interruptus. I did not know at that
time that I could become pregnant by such a method. I thought that
I was perfectly safe as long as he did not release the semen in me.
Contraceptive methods-rhythm
We tried a schedule of safe days, unsafe days, and safe days. It
worked very well for us. We don't know if it was because of my
relative infertility or because of the method itself.
Contraceptive methods-condom
She refused to go all the way unless I had a rubber. I was so afraid
to buy some, that I kept postponing our first lovemaking session.
Finally I got enough nerve to buy some, and we soon decided to
fornicate.
Contraceptive methods-combination
He and I used a rubber whenever he had one, but most of the time
we counted on withdrawal. I did not know very much about what
goes on during reproduction, so I trusted him and left the matter up
to him.
We used two birth control methods simultaneously; the rhythm
method plus coitus interruptus. Although we have not discussed
which methods to use, I knew he was keeping a record of my
menstrual cycle.