I doubt condoms are used at all in the 24th century, except maybe on missions to primitive cultures.
The condoms are there as part of the realism of the 20th century* picking up babes at Studio 54 program. One has to bring in real condoms, as virtual condoms run the risk of dematerializing your privates if the program ends early / go awry / takes over the ship.
- All Trek cultures are obsessed with 20th century earth.
Although I guess technically, you’re LARPing anyway. As the DM of a D&D game. 
Did people use condoms back then with any regularity? '70s and early '80s seems to me to be before the big STD (especially AIDS/HIV) scares.
Oh my, no. Hardly anyone EVER had sex outside of marriage before the liberals ruined everything what with their free love and fucking in the mud. STDs were virtually unknown until liberals destroyed the family with their swinging orgies and open lifestyles. It really started in the 60s, saintly American sexual purity was lost forever by fornicating liberals tainting our culture with their perversity.
What’s that you say? Something about “venereal disease” and old movies shown to troops during WWII? NOT LISTENING.
Sounds like a great holodeck episode, imo. Relive the invention of sex! Some fantasies are too good to let go to waste.
(Sorry Shot From Guns. Something about your post reminded me of the rants of another SDMB poster, and I ran with it, just for fun.)
You’re expecting historical accuracy to this level of detail that far in the future? We’ll be lucky if they’re not totin’ six guns at Studio 54, since it was common to do so in the 1850s and the 2060s.
Except that they aren’t. Worf’s favorite holodeck program was one based on ancient Klingon culture, for instance. Janeway was interested in Earth history, but of the several holodeck programs we saw her run, only one was clearly 20th century; she spent time with Leonardo, and in 19th century Ireland. I don’t think you can nail Picard’s horse-riding program down to any particular era. Worf’s son liked the Old West; so did Deanna Troi. Data liked the 19th century, and reenactments of Shakespeare. The Holodoc’s simulated family was clearly contemporary to Voyager.
Tom Paris liked 20th century earth.
And Kirk, even in the reboot he stole a wheeled hot rod.
That only proves that 90210!Kirk liked that car and whatever the group was playing on the stereo.
Well, parody or attempts at parody aside, I was in college in the mid-80s. Condoms were not widely used in my social circles. The girls were mostly on the pill, AIDS wasn’t really a concern for straight folks, and other STDs were not common. Good times. Even through law school in the mid-1990s, condoms were not an automatic, every time consideration. Seems to me that kicked in in the late 90s or so…
(I know exactly who you’re talking about. So just as long as you realize that wasn’t my point, we’re good.)
Whatever group was playing on the stereo? *Whatever group was playing on the stereo? *It’s the god-damned BEASTIE BOYS, son. You’d best remember that.
I knew it was something like that. But I’m not much of a fan of popular music, and was even less so whenever the Beastie Boys were popular. (The 80s?)
I’ll vex you further by saying that not only could I not name any song of theirs, or pick them out of a crowd, but I’m not even sure if they’re black, white, or other.
They’ve been doing hip-hop since the mid '80s. IIRC the song in question was “Sabotage,” off of 1994’s Ill Communication. Although, really, their sound is so distinctive, if you heard them just a couple of times, you should be able to pick them out. (The same way that, although I don’t follow popular music at all these days and haven’t since I was what we currently annoyingly term a tween, I was able to tell that a song playing in the restaurant where I ate lunch was by Gwen Stefani.)
Oh, and they’re (ethnically) Jewish. At least some of the members, anyway.
Unless I never listened long enough to associate a name with a song. And as I can’t stand rap music, I’m sure I never did. But I find rap so odious that I am quick to change the station when it’s on, so I doubt I could distinguish any two rappers from one another.
I did not know that. I had a vague impression that they weren’t black, though.
Just for that, I’m going to find out where you live and stand outside your house with a boombox playing MF DOOM until you recant.
I don’t know what MF DOOM is.
Anyway, I didn’t say rap was bad; just that I don’t like it. I don’t like collard greens either, but it’s okay with me if other people eat it.
I know you don’t. Hip-hop artist. Has done great solo work, as well as collaborative stuff with people like Madlib and Danger Mouse.
I will *make *you like it.
With your mutant telepathic powers?
Don’t be silly. Mutation doesn’t give you telepathic powers, just polydactyly and things like that.
I got my telepathy from radiation.
Rhymer Skald, Rhymer Sklad
Does whatever Shots from Guns can
I almost spat all over my keyboard, and I’m still laughing. If I were the signature-having type, this would be snagged.