# How safe was your first sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390 "2012-10-11T04:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/1 "2012-10-11T04:31:40Z")
For those of you who have had intercourse that involved an erect penis entering another human being’s below-the-waste orifice: Was there a condom on aforementioned erect penis when it entered aforementioned below-the-waste orifice-- when either your penis penetrated, or your orifice was penetrated, for the very first time? Poll coming, private. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/2 "2012-10-11T05:37:27Z")
Our protection was a diaphragm and a reasonable degree of confidence that neither of us had any STD’s - no condoms. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/3 "2012-10-11T05:43:32Z")
I don’t have any orifices below the waste orifice. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/4 "2012-10-11T06:06:45Z")
I’ll have to let you know when the time comes… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/5 "2012-10-11T06:43:22Z")
My first sex was unsafe. We thought that everything could be cured with penicillin, back then. I WAS on the Pill, so I was not risking pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![duchessofdork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@duchessofdork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duchessofdork)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/6 "2012-10-11T06:46:59Z")
Very. We used a condom, and I wouldn’t sleep with him unless he’d been tested. I was a virgin. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/7 "2012-10-11T07:27:51Z")
Not safe at all. In my defense, it was the seventies. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/8 "2012-10-11T08:04:07Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > I don’t have any orifices below the waste orifice. Well, that would depend on your position… I find it very strange that the OP appears to define “safe sex” as equaling “condom”. In my case he was wearing one, but it wasn’t the only precaution I took. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/9 "2012-10-11T08:14:51Z")
Damn! Well, condom was used, but we were in a basement at her place with no door up the stairs, so our VOLUME was safe. If her dad heard us… ---
**Author:** ![simple\_homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@simple\_homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simple_homer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/10 "2012-10-11T08:32:00Z")
It was the 70’s. I was 16, and she was 17. I used a condom due to all the information I had received from my parents and also from sex education classes at school. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/11 "2012-10-11T09:38:12Z")
I was finally getting laid - you think I was going to stop to look for a condom? After the first time, we came prepared. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/12 "2012-10-11T09:55:16Z")
Safety was not uppermost on my mind at that time. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/13 "2012-10-11T09:56:44Z")
I was perfectly safe; I didn’t tell her my real name! ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/14 "2012-10-11T10:16:52Z")
We started with a condom, couldnt get it to fit, so continued without one… ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/15 "2012-10-11T10:52:03Z")
Condom, the pill, at home, knew his parents. The most danger I was in was falling off the bed. And it was really lovely too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/16 "2012-10-11T12:02:02Z")
Newly married, my wife and I both virgins, she had gotten fitted for a diaphragm. Three kids and forty eight years later, I have still never used a condom. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/17 "2012-10-11T12:04:56Z")
No condom on me or my hand. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/18 "2012-10-11T12:14:35Z")
It was the 70s, prior to the discovery of condoms. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/19 "2012-10-11T12:35:52Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > below-the-waste orifice Ew. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390/20 "2012-10-11T12:38:59Z")
I brought condoms. She fell asleep, and I decided that the gentlemanly thing to do was to let her sleep (very long and exhausting day), so we didn’t use them that night. I found out later that her friends were impressed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-was-your-first-sex/637390.md?page=2)