Condoms

Ladies. Please.
If you're not in a monogamous relationship, I'm beggin' you, carry condoms around with you.

It's not about being a slut.
It's not about being easy.
It's about taking care of yourself, because no one else is going to.

Here's one more reason why you owe it to yourself to always be prepared.

Women whose partners use condoms every time they have sex are less likely to become infected with HPV, the virus that can cause cervical cancer and genital warts, than women who only occasionally use them. Consistent condom use cut a woman's risk of infection by 70% and protected her from developing precancerous cervical changes, according to a University of Washington study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.....

.....Women who reported using condoms 100% of the time had a dramatically lower rate of HPV infection than women who said they used condoms only 5% of the time or less. The consistent condom users were 70% less likely to become infected. Even inconsistent use helped; women who used condoms only half the time cut their risk of HPV infection by 50%.

What's more, no cervical precancers were found among women who used condoms 100% of the time, but 14 precancers were detected in the women who used condoms 5% of the time or less.

Cervical cancer is one of the top killers, for women. And guess what? It's also one of those rare cancers that can actually be treated and stopped. It will save your life. You can still have children. Your ovaries will be spared. And don't say you won't have kids. You need the hormones that the ovaries give you!!

It doesn't cost much to purchase a 3-pack. It also doesn't cost your pride very much to gently broach the subjct in a time of (ahem) need. And if the man you've just started to date thinks otherwise...... then..... not a very good quality man there, I'd think.


Condoms aren't a dirty word, y'know.