Article: Students told us the truth about sex...and here are the results!

I'd like to know how many students who haven't bought condoms are lesbians. Or virgins. Did you enquire about sexuality on the survey? And even in heterosexual couples only one person needs to buy the condoms, so 50% of people not buying them works out pretty well.

Also, what do you mean 50% have never bought a condom? Do you literally mean buying them?

There are window periods and so for example you're not clear for HIV if you have had sex in the last 3 months.

Also, what do you mean 50% have never bought a condom? Do you literally mean buying them? Why would students buy them when they can get them for free easily elsewhere? And you don't need both partners to have them for safe sex. It's a question that didn't really give you the evidence you're trying to get.

And the opening question was odd. Are you suggesting that being horny means having unprotected sex? You can be horny and have protected sex. You can be horny and not have sex.

Asking TSR people whether they have ever bought condoms is ridiculous.

Most people here are socially r******* virgins and the few who are not, are probably using a more long term method such as the pill or the contraceptive implant.

That's what I interpreted the question as meaning.

Asking TSR people whether they have ever bought condoms is ridiculous.

Most people here are socially retarded virgins and the few who are not, are probably using a more long term method such as the pill or the contraceptive implant.

50% haven't brought condoms....not surprising surely? For a start only one condom is needed when two people are having sex and a lot of women expect the bloke to have one, they may have some themselves, but not always. So lets say men are mostly buying condoms...which is logical tbh, you've reduced the percentage, then you have the guys who either get them free, too shortsighted to bother, are having unprotected sex by choice and finally are having no sex. So out of all that 50% doesn't act like some shocking figure.

I just found that you said 53% of students surveyed have never gone tested. I can safely assume not 100% of the surveyed have actually had sex and so what does this figure really say?

Though actually having protected sex doesn't necessarily mean you're 100% protected. In fact, some STIs are 100% not protected by condoms or anything else. And of course there's the thing that most people won't use a condom in oral sex and some would opt for a pill, which would protect you only against, still not 100%, pregnancy.

You can still get an STI ever if you're both virgins - STIs could've been transmitted from birth or from having injections, for example. And then there's the thing that people may lie to you about being a virgin.

But to some people, indeed, testing is not usually necessary especially when they may go for a body check every once in a while (which may include STI testing that I guess people wouldn't disclose here).

This article would work a lot better without using these meaningless numbers, though it'd still be pretty crap.

True. Condoms can always get small tears which you don't recognize afterwards, and I think i once read the safety label where they said they were only 90% effective as a barrier. Better than 0% i guess.

From birth is an interesting point. I know in women that chlamydia can appear non-symptomatic, or no visible symptoms, while it slowly causes infertility. I'm sure a few others have similar effects under the right circumstances (well, the wrong circumstances in the end)

But the point still stands. Statistics, when obtained and quoted, should usually be very specific, otherwise, like you did, they can be picked apart easily to show that actually they don't represent anything meaningful. They may have asked only sexually active people and just misquoted, or they asked regardless of that and quoted as such.

If you buy condoms, you're doing it wrong. I haven't needed to get any in a while tho cus I am very single lol.

It's higher than 90%, but it depends on the item, ie whether it's about pregnancy or an STI, and which one.

Many STIs can go without symptoms.

They asked everyone. You can go and check their actual survey. They even said it didn't matter whether you're sexually active or not.



You'll need to start buying them once you get older.