Well, in some parts of the world the Hep B vaccine might be just as important (it can be transmitted sexually), but I suspect that Lynn does means HPV.
However, for my first time, my fiance did have to get a Hep B vaccination before our wedding (my fault, I was a carrier). She was on the pill as well, so I didn’t need to use a condom. We had discussed sexual histories and felt pretty safe in other respects.
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IIRC, Lynn’s daughter is old enough that when she (daughter) was a teen, the HPV vaccine had not been out yet, but the Hep B was. Hepatitis B can be sexually transmitted, and then later transmitted from mother to child during birth, so that was probably the vaccine Lynn was mentioning.
when it happens, I’ll report back. maybe.
No condom, 1983. I had a few drinks and it pulverized the decision-making portion of my brain.
We took all the precautions you would expect a couple of 16 year olds in the back seat of a '68 Mercury station wagon to take.
Have we ever, EVER had a poll so evenly split on this board?
No condom.
She told me she was on the pill, that was enough for 18 year old me. That was before AIDS/HIV. We later added spermicide foam because we really didn’t want a pregnancy.
lock the doors so they don’t pop open when you catch your foot in the door handle.
The clothes were already off when we discovered neither of us had come prepared. Everything came to an abrupt stop. We laid there for about a half hour before we got dressed, went to the store, and bought protection. Then things resumed as before.
It’s pretty amazing how split it is. I was sorta convinced it was going to lean heavier on the “unsafe” side. Right now it’s:
99 votes for "Yes, the penis was sporting rubber (48.77%)
104 votes for “No, the penis was as bare as the day is long” (51.23%)
And that’s a lopsided as I’ve seen it so far.
The year was 1977. I was 15 years old, not safe and damn lucky.
We used a condom. I was 15. He was quite a bit older and it was not his first time, so he knew what to do even if I didn’t. Guy #2 was more interesting in that he had NO idea what he was doing WRT condoms. Those things would slip all over the place. But we were determined to figure it out! This was in the late 90s.
ditto
Used a condom (late seventies, college), we made it part of the process and part of the fun. She was experienced, I wasn’t.
Hell, I *still *use a condom, even when I jerk off. You can’t be too safe!
We started out with a condom, he said it fell off. I think he took it off. (He was waaaaaayyy more experienced than I was.)
It happened unexpectedly (alcohol involved) and no protection was available at that hour.
I wonder how the poll would fare if the definition of first-sex expanded to involve any another-person’s-orifice-penetrating action (now, that there’s a way to describe the deed in a way that arouses not…).
Because for some of us there was a nontrivial time of separation between one mode and another, and disease can be spread by alternate means, pregnancy is not the only hazard.
By the strict definition stated in the OP (BTW, Happy, it’s “below the waist”, not “waste”), yes, protected.
By a more liberal definition (nothwiststanding President Clinton), then:
Let’s just say there was much sweat while waiting for tests for some time afterward…