No, there isn’t. It’s available without a prescription to anyone of age, and the only thing they ask is for an ID and if you have any questions for the pharmacist. There is zero information they ask the intended recipient of the medication beyond those two things.
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there!
The girl’s situation is just as ridiculous: she already has had unprotected sex, thus risking both disease AND pregnancy, but now she can’t risk being shamed in order to prevent a possible pregnancy? :dubious:
It’s not “absurd”, it’s “biology”. They both are clearly well informed and know the risks they are taking by having unprotected sex. It’s their well informed choice to risk pregnancy and/or disease rather than risk momentary shame.
I’m not responsible for either of these kids. You won’t find any guilt on my conscience if their lives suffer as a result of their own poor decision making and/or inability to assert themselves.
Ah, we did discuss this before. Thought I was losing my mind for a second there. Interesting, lots of very similar responses.
Condoms are clothing. Plan-B is a drug. Yes to the boy, no to the mom.
Me too. I’m very leery about random strangers trying to get me to do stuff for them. It could be a scam, or possibly scamola.
Hmm…inviting a fifteen-year-old boy into my car for the express purpose of getting condoms? How could that possibly go wrong?
Nope, still too paranoid.
Neither because its possible to have an adverse medical reaction to either morning after pill or condoms (anaphylaxis from latex allergy) and I don’t want to be responsible. Not risking my house to help some kids who can’t walk over to the local gas station and buy condoms from the vending machine there.
There it is. If you’re gonna bump uglies, you gotta take responsibility for all aspects of it, including buying your own protection.
I get being more bashful than horny (insert 7 dwarves reference) and would gladly help the kids out if I weren’t also paranoid.
No way in hell am I going to allow myself to be seen handing contraception over to a minor if it could possibly be mirepresented as me doing my part to lure the kid into bed wth me.
I’d congratulate the boy on his foresight and willingness to do the right thing by buying the condom, but I’d also let him know that he’s not mature enough to have sex until he’s mature enough to walk up to the pharmacist and buy the equipment. Hell, go somewhere where they don’t know you if you must. But don’t look to strangers to cover for you.
As for the young woman, I’d graciously decline. Again, she needs to take responsibility and get over the embarassment.
Since this would be so far out of left field I would be leery that there was some bad angle I wasn’t seeing. I wouldn’t even think about doing it. And my answer would be the same no matter what the product was.
BTW I hate that show.
Hell no. I wasn’t getting any at 15 so nobody should.
Actually I would explain that I don’t want to buy them either, my wife might find out, but I would back him or her up if the pharmacist or clerk wanted to try to make a fuss. Give a man a condom and he fucks for a day, teach him how to buy condoms …
When I was a teen, I was the one who frequently bought rubbers for my friends, & I’d hold my head up high at the counter. Appearances, man, appearances!
(I may not have been using them, but they were made of brass.) 
Where I live (greater suburbia). there’s almost always another pharmacy within a mile, sometimes in sight of where we might be standing. The 18 yo girl could easily go across/down the road a bit to a different store. No way do I get for her.
The 15yo boy would presumably be embarrassed anywhere he went. He’s okay walking up to a complete stranger to ask for this but can’t go inside to buy them? I don’t buy it (the story). This isn’t buying booze or cigarettes where he doesn’t have the right birthdate on his ID. I’d tell him to go to the ___ supermarket that has a drug store in it, along with self-checkout, I can think of 4 within 5 miles of my house.
I kinda like Shodan’s answer: just say to the pharmacist, “This guy wants to buy condoms. You’re not gonna tell his parents, right? Cool. C’mon, dude, go buy them!” At that point, it’s too late to prevent embarrassment, so he may as well buy them.
Nope. If you’re adult enough to have sex, you can be a big boy/girl and buy your own contraception.
First, I answered female - would buy condoms and morning-after pill.
However, both scenarios only make sense if I imagine I’m in an American pharmacy or similar. A boy of 18 can buy his condoms without problems here. A girl of under 18 can get the morning-after pill from her female doctor without problems here.
That said, I support responsible sex choices. I’m for sex education. If the parents have such a bad relationship that their children can’t come to them, then why shouldn’t I step in?
And gossip in small towns is very bad - everything to cut that. (Though I wonder what the pharmacist will tell about me when I go and buy both condoms and morning-after pill at my age! :))
I wouldn’t buy either because it’s not my place to get drawn into it. The kid can go elsewhere if there’s concern someone will find out or can talk to parents or whatever. In the case of condoms, I would certainly rather he had protection than him go ahead without it, or in the case of morning after, not having someone young ruin their life with a mistake, who am I to interject myself into such a situation. I’m not about to undermine the authority of a kid’s parent just because they’re scared they may find out even if, assuming their tale is true, I may agree with their decision. Worse, there may be complicating circumstances that the kid is leaving out, deliberately or not, and it would also be wrong to make a moral decision on something so important in someone else’s life based on such a small amount of knowledge about the situation. If it is something that important, do they really have no one else they can trust other than a perfect stranger in the store?
Oh? Tell me more.
I take it the laws vary from place to place? I was just reading this article today about a (female) high school coach who’s facing a felony charge of “delivery of a dangerous drug” for providing a morning-after pill to her 16-year-old student.
The article claims that a prescription is required for patients under 17— but it doesn’t specifically mention Plan B. Are there other forms of “morning after pill” with stricter control?
Take their money, then give the boy a bag of water balloons and the girl a box of tictacs, pocket the change.