(hell, yeah) Scarleteen

It occurs to me that the “we both forgot to use condoms” thing that comes up often enough is a bit like suggesting that a person forgot to wear pants.

For a whole day.

And didn’t notice.

At all.

They got home, and after hours of being out in the cold or the sun, at work, getting lunch, taking the bus back and forth, only when they saw their pants laying on the bed did they go, “Whoah! I haven’t had pants on ALL DAY! I had NO IDEA WHATSOEVER!”

Just think about it. Seriously. Think about it. If in doubt, try The Great Pantsless Experiment and see how long you go without noticing.

Here’s a thing to know: chances are AWFULLY good that at least one person in that situation, and certainly the person who would be WEARING the condom realizes they’re not wearing a condom. Probably right from the start, but if not then pretty darn shortly thereafter.

That person is highly unlikely not to feel any difference at all, because even though various kinds of sex can feel just as awesome with condoms on, it still does tend to feel different. Even when we’re wearing the most comfortable pants we own, most things we might do while wearing them, if not all things, are not going to feel the same as when we’re sans pants.

So, at least one person in this equation knows a condom wasn’t put on. But probably the person who also didn’t, with them, take a second to stop, get the condom, get the lube, put the condom on, lube it up, then go back to what they wanted to do? They know there wasn’t a condom, too. Or they at least know that they do not know if there was.

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