Where do you get your condoms from?

I'm no longer a student, where is the best place to buy/get for free (hopefully!) condoms? Where do people here get them from?

Reply 1

Harvey Dent

You could always borrow pre-owned ones off your friends.

Reply 2

Whiteglare

Go to a gay bar and they'll give you loads; you can just take them from big bowls in most places. You can usually get 6 free if you go for an STI check as well.

Reply 3

username739587

You can get bags of assorted condoms from the GPs for free.
However, you can buy a jiffy bag of 25 / 50 durex condoms off ebay.
It works out at 20-30p each, and I get the type/style/brand I prefer.

Reply 4

Anonymous #1

Original post by Whiteglare

Go to a gay bar and they'll give you loads; you can just take them from big bowls in most places. You can usually get 6 free if you go for an STI check as well.

Thanks for the advice, but I'd prefer to pay over either of those two options! I have nothing against gay bars but I'd feel uncomfortable and rude just walking in to pick up condoms, and I'm pretty sure I don't need an STI check.

Reply 5

Darkwarrior23

I get it from the large penis store

Reply 6

Anonymous #1

Original post by stroppyninja

You can get bags of assorted condoms from the GPs for free.
However, you can buy a jiffy bag of 25 / 50 durex condoms off ebay.
It works out at 20-30p each, and I get the type/style/brand I prefer.

Do I just go into the GP and ask at the desk?

Are you sure they're genuine durex?

Reply 7

Whiteglare

Original post by Anonymous

Gay bars have loads of free condoms; they want you to take them and you don't have to buy anything. The STI people don't know you don't need an STI check; you can just go anyway (and who knows, you may have something you didn't even know about), and they'll give you free condoms.

Reply 8

dilszsexgod

I just wear my girlfriends socks..

Reply 9

Jezebelle

They're cheaper online, I bought 72 off amazon for £12. Cheap, durex and the packaging is discreet.

Reply 10

The Right

Man don't need no condom betch

Reply 11

Lord Jon

Just buy them from the poundshop if you are hard up! Pound shop stuff aren't knock offs or a bunch of dodgy stock. It's MAINLY bankruptcy stock which has been taken from companies that have recently gone bust.

Reply 12

Kieraeirian

My mom works in the sexual health clinic so she's always bringing home free condoms even though I don't have any use for them. If you go the clinic they give them to you for free.

Reply 13

Baloney

If you're in a long term / serious relationship, chat to your GF about getting the implant.
Lasts for 3 years, 99.9% effective contraception and no money wasted on condoms.

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Reply 14

Anonymous #2

Sexual health clinic. I get the pill from there too so I pick up condoms whenever I go to get more pill supplies. Both free and they offer STI tests too. :biggrin:

Reply 15

Anonymous #1

Thanks for the tips everyone, for the time being I'm going with this person's advice and just get them off Amazon. Cheapish and stops me from having to deal with anybody lol.

Original post by Jezebelle

They're cheaper online, I bought 72 off amazon for £12. Cheap, durex and the packaging is discreet.

Reply 16

username739587

Original post by Anonymous

Do I just go into the GP and ask at the desk?

Are you sure they're genuine durex?

Got to be honest, i've never got the condoms from the GPs, so I don't know!
It was always the GF who picked them up after regular appointments.

The ones on ebay are 100% genuine durex, with an expiry date many years from now.
They're power sellers, who buy tens of thousands in bulk and redistribute them.

Amazon sells them too, same thing, different site - many people feel ebay is a bit sketchy.

Reply 17

Gallois

You don't need to actually get an STI check to get the free condoms in Sexual Health/GUM clinics. Just go in and they're usually at the reception desk in unmarked white paper packets for you to just take. You shouldn't have to talk to anyone if you don't want to! They're there to be taken and used, nobody will judge you for going in and taking them :smile:

Ebay/Amazon are good shouts too, but I kind of begrudge paying for condoms since I can just get them free in the clinic.

Reply 18

Anonymous #3

Original post by Anonymous

Thanks for the tips everyone, for the time being I'm going with this person's advice and just get them off Amazon. Cheapish and stops me from having to deal with anybody lol.

Agree online is easiest, I use specialist condom stores online though. Not sure which is cheaper, but they were about ~10p for me.

Reply 19

Anonymous #4

Sexual health clinics and GPs give them out for free but they're either the extra safe or flavoured ones, which personally I can't stand.

I just go to boots and get the extra thin or "real feel" ones.