Why I hate using condoms

He says condoms feel like plastic, reduce intimacy, cost too much for frequent sex, and may contain carcinogenic compounds. He minimizes STI risk, citing nine relationships, one STD, prior chlamydia, testing, and willingness to use condoms when asked. He says pregnancy no longer worries him, welcomes eventual children, defends family support on petrol-station wages, and accepts househusband duties.

Risk-taking is rationalized as pleasure and excitement while unprotected sex is folded into increasingly confident settling-down expectations.