Hear Hear, I used protection my first time, too, and it was because of sex-ed combined with trying to get my little mittens on anything I could that dealt with sex, often from progressive magazines/radio. I fancied myself a deviant and libertine. I read so much twisted stuff; things which normalized emotionally wraught sexual relationships- Henry Miller alone in my room because my parents were so strict I wasn’t allowed to watch shows like Roseanne (bad language and they talked about sex). So I never got an education on emotionally healthy sexuality, or much lbqttgia info, but I knew about the latex and used it. My little sister was just enough years behind me that the Clintons were gone and the Bushes were in and sex ed had gone from ‘OMG even looking at a drop of sex-residue WEEKS LATER will give you diseases and death !!1!’ to ‘You start out pure, like this tissue, but every time you have sex, you get more and more used up; now who wants a used kleenex?’ and all those little freaks chanced it their first time.
