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Condoms locked up under glass across the nation Anonymous
Well, my neighborhood CVS Pharmacy has just lost my business.

As of March 1st, All the "family planning" items are put under lock and key, akin to an electronics store. This includes Condoms, Pregnancy tests, vaginal rings, Lubricant, and other items that CVS sees fit to lock up.

The Abstinence-only fuckwads are enjoying this, applauding the "extra step" in buying contraceptives.

I cannot believe this is happening. it's 2008 and America continues to take gigantic strides backward.
>> Anonymous
WOW. And this is to discourage theft, or what? This boggles the mind, really.
>> Anonymous
But is it a law or just a popular (politically correct?) policy companies are going for?
>> Anonymous
>>45328

No, they are claiming "theft" as the factor.
>> Anonymous
>>45329

however, upon reading news articles about this, it's been supported by abstinence-only groups. Fucking idiots think that blocking condoms will stop sex?
>> Anonymous
Fuck the people who are too shy to ask the stock boy for some astroglide + condoms.

Let them get pregnant, drop out of school, and not compete for the jobs I want.
>> Anonymous
>>45331

yes, let the spread of disease continue.

idiot.
>> sage !jyye8faDxg
>>45331
YEAH DUDE, WE NEED MORE RETARDED BABIES
>> Anonymous
>>45331
you have to buzz the pharmacist. not the stock boy. which means that on some hours, you can't buy any condoms.
>> Anonymous
I really don't give a shit. When I was 18 I used to get outraged by fundies and their abstinence-only views. 5 years later, I don't give a shit. I have bigger things going on in my life than what a bunch of Jesus-loving rednecks think about me.
>> Miss/fit/ !CX5ZjxjyRA
So like.. is this supposed to stop kids because it's too embarrassing to ask for them or something? What the fuck.
>> Anonymous
Well, all such wares are popular targets of theft because some people are too embarrassed to buy them. But fuck that, natural selection should have ensured that the kind of people who don't have to guts to buy condoms should be the ones who don't get babies.
>> Anonymous
call first, have them get the condamns for you and then go and pick them up OTC.
>> Anonymous
This is bullshit.

I think this is an invasion of privacy, but whatever the fuck. You make this this less and less accessible and you wonder why the spread of STDs and teen pregnancy is what it is.
>> Anonymous
that's a ridiculous invasion of privacy. CVS lost my business. abstinence only fuckwads need to mind their own business - if they're not having sex, fine by me, but it's my body and my choice. They're not going to shame me out of doing it.
>> Anonymous
>>45366
fuck you libfag, the matter is simple.

This man is the king of the thread.

>>45362

Why don't you go to bed?
>> Anonymous
How is it an invasion of privacy lol?
>> Anonymous
It's an invasion of privacy because instead of discreetly going to the isle, getting some condoms and self-scanning your stuff and leaving - you have to wait for the pharmacist, which could be a while, in front of other people where people are likely to see/hear you ask for said product.

No one needs to know I'm getting laid.
>> ?suomynonA?
I don't really care but..

This does seem like a very pointless thing to do.
>> Anonymous
>>45374
In that case, buying anything is an invasion of property. You buy some food and the clerk knows ( or can assume ) you're going to eat it. You buy some magazines and the clerk knows ( or can assume ) that you're going to read them.

However, people are still embarrassed about buying them. It's hard enough to just pick them up and buy them, now it seems like more of a huge issue. But I suppose you could probably buy condoms over the internet so you don't have to worry as much.
>> Anonymous
>>45380
Buying condoms doesn't mean you're getting laid.

My friend and I used to buy condoms from the local pharmacy just to blow them into banana flavored or ribbed balloons.
>> Anonymous
lol @ usa

enjoy your greater incidence of teenage pregnancy
>> Anonymous
So go to your high school or doctor and ask for condoms. They have to hand them out by law. CVS just doesn't want horny little fuckers stealing them.

And yes, of course abstinence groups are going to support it. It doesn't mean they initiated it.
>> Anonymous
I really don't see what's so embarrassing about it. Maybe I've been married too long? What would piss me off more is waiting for a pharmacist. They're busy and plucking a 3 pack off the shelf is probably not a high priority for them (nor should it be)
>> Anonymous
YES! YES! SPREAD THAT CLAP! SPREAD THOSE GENITAL WARTS! IMPREGNATE THOSE ALCOHOLIC WHORES!

If there's one thing America needs it's more FAS babies and VD.
>> Anonymous
If the condoms are under lock and key then it means that it'll be more of a hassle to get it due to needing some speak to a pharmacist or someone stockperson. If depending on a pharmacist this limits the hours you can shop dramatically. This puts a simple limit on the shopping ability of people pursuing a particular variety of item.

This isn't an issue of people being embarrassed, it's an issue of availability being limited.
>> Anonymous
>>45322

I buy my condoms at Costco, where they're sold by the case. Nothing discreet about that. Nothing like walking down the aisle with a giant box of condoms and your head held high.
>> Anonymous
>>45482
this, also ebay.
but yeah, it's fucking retarded. America is a shitty country because of stuff like this, and only getting worse
>> Anonymous
grow up
>> Anonymous
>>45473
No excuse. Just because my store is out of toilet paper doesn't mean I'll walk around with shit hanging out my ass. With something as important as not procreating or getting VD I think a little wait or shopping around is a small price to pay.

The only stores I know of that do this have a high theft problem. Don't be mad at the business, be pissed at the 15 year olds who think they are man enough to fuck but not man enough to buy the rubbers and steal them. It's not the owner's business to stop the spread of VD, it's yours.
>> Anonymous
meh, i dont see where the extra 'embarassment' comes from considering most grocery stores you gotta pay for it at checkout.

Although i still hate the abstinence fuckwads.
>> Guil
>>45553
Self-checkout
>> Anonymous
>>45556

I've never seen a CVS stupid enough to allow self checkout. They've got enough douchebags walking out with unpaid merchandise on PURPOSE. The last thing they need are elderly dipshits doing it on accident.
>> Anonymous
1. Go to Wal-Mart
2. Go to their Pharmacy section and grab some Trojans
3. Go to self check out
4. ???
5. PROFIT

though seriously, some items do have something where a cashier lady needs to come and approve (usually things that may be hazardous, such as super glue). Not sure if condoms are one of them.
>> Anonymous
>>45559

I know my $10 razor cleaning chemicals (highly flammable) are behind lock and key.

BTW, the last time I even went down the condom isle (I get no tail...poor me, etc), I saw an opened/emptied box of magnums. Now I'll bet that person paid for each one he removed from the box. THAT is why they're under lock and key. They're expensive and VERY concealable.
>> Anonymous
Is it really because of abstinence groups? I thought condoms were one of the most stolen items in pharmacies.
>> Anonymous
>>45569

No, hippie liberals are attributing it to them so they have another reason to hate.
>> Anonymous
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hai guise, is this cause for worry?

red dots, more on my leg/ thigh just next to the groin

im thinking clogged pores, i needz ur medical expertise
>> Anonymous
Shame, abstinence people are okay(Besides the ones who say even touching your penis to urinate is masturbation and sinful people) but locking up the condoms? Seriously, do we need more fucktard babies running around???
>> Anonymous
>>45575

90% of the "abstinence" people I met during high school either have diseases or have kids where their daddy's aren't around.

I asked them why they didn't get a condom.

"Oh, we didn't have one."

Why I always carry a trojan in my wallet. I don't want kids around, and like hell I'm trusting a woman to not poke holes in one or to use "I'm on the pill" as a Spartan defense against my Persian army. They're going to take the fucking goat path to your eggs woman!

I don't mind. What would you rather have: embarassment or a kid?
>> Anonymous
>>45592
Damn the goat path!
>> Anonymous
This isn't some adult conspiracy to deter you from your underage girlfriend's hairy snatch. Business owner's don't give a fuck if you get HPV. They want money for their merchandise.

Don't bitch about the pharmacist not being in at 9pm because you didn't have the foresight to buy some before a date. There's always gas stations.
>> Anonymous
ITT: Idiots who are too embarrased to suck it up and buy a pack of condoms rather than have protected sex.
>> Anonymous
>>45648
Buy condoms RATHER THAN have protected sex? I thought using a rubber WAS protected sex
>> Guil
Shitty sentence is shitty and annoying.
>> Anonymous
>>45592
Isn't wallet-carry bad for condoms? The heat in your pockets degrades the latex faster AFAIK.

Unless you restock them, go through them at a high rate. GJ.
>> Guil
>>45664
Shh it would have been funnier when the condom broke during sex because it was over 6 months old. Then once the baby is aborted we'll all have a good reminiscent laugh over it while drinking tea.

You ruined it.
>> Anonymous
>>45669
This is why we are supposed to have prethread meetings. Not everyone gets the memo.
>> Anonymous
Fucking Christfags
>> Anonymous
I'm pissed because CVS stopped carrying my brand of condom.
>> Anonymous
You should keep going to CVS, but every time you need condoms, talk loudly to the woman at the counter "Hey I need to buy some rubbers, yeah those rubbers over there! I need rubbers please!"

Keep buying condoms that way until they relent and put it back on the aisle.
>> Anonymous
ugh. there should be laws against this kind of shit.
>> Anonymous
Fantastic, now kids who are already nervous about people finding out they are having sex will have one more reason not to use protection. It's embarrassing enough for them to bring those items to the counter, let alone ask "Can I please have some 2 packs of Trojan EZs and some warming KY liquid?"
>> Anonymous
Simple solution to make everyone happy:

Vending machines.

More sales instead of less, low theft, low embarrassment/discreet easy access, and still behind glass (in case it is somebody's sexual fetish)
>> Anonymous
Trojans are garbage.
>> Anonymous
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>>45572
This is bad. You should kill take this immediately.
>> Anonymous
who gives a fuck if you have to ask some pharmacist who most likely doesnt care if someone is buying condoms. why are people embarrassed about sending a message that they're getting laid?

this isn't about sending a message of abstinence or trying to get teenagers to have less sex. this isn't about America promoting that message and taking "giant strides" backward like the OP said. this is about business, and putting condoms behind locked glass increases profit by preventing kids who don't have the balls to admit to buying condoms from stealing them.
>> Anonymous
>>45967
Because pharmacies often have limited hours, and not all of us like having to work around those limited times.
>> Anonymous
It's probably not pro-abstinence bullshit. Teenagers probably steal condoms because they're too afraid to ask, so they lock them up.
>> Anonymous
>>45967

I think you'll find that not even a tenfold of the apparent "stolen condoms" isn't enough to force their hand into putting something their stock behind locked glass and counters.
Doing so is either a symbol and reaction to the amount of money they are apparently losing, or (more likely) a sever push towards the abolition of contraception by your fanatical, christianfag society.

This is why America can't have nice things.
>> Anonymous
>>45872
maybe, just MAYBE if they're too embarrassed they shouldn't be doing it. If they can't be man enough to say "My whore of a girlfriend is finally going to put out" they don't deserve the pussy.
>> Anonymous
>>45969
last I checked walmart, gas stations, grocery stores, etc still sold condoms.
>> Anonymous
>>45995
I know gas stations do. An Exxon next door to where I work sells them individually in the men's bathroom for $.75 each.

You can even get scented ones.
>> Anonymous
>>45993

As stated in many posts before this, only the pharmacist can open those kinds of cabinets - regardless of you bravery, the pharmacist simply isn't around at all hours. How long do you plan to wait for your condoms? Half an hour? An hour? Two hours? Come back next business day?

Also, certain fucktard pharmacists actually believe they can refuse business in the same way they refuse to give out morning after pills. Which is exactly what is happening all across the states.
>> Anonymous
Of course, as we all know, now that even condoms are in the pharmacists' controls, certain pharmacists will believe it is their RIGHT to refuse to sell condoms, much like what is currently happening with the morning after pill.

This is a pathetic state for the U S of A.
>> Anonymous
They give out rubbers at planned parenthood.
Also if you go to those sex stores, well the rubbers are the least thing to be embarassed about. If you pick up a John Holmes strokemaster or a Jeff Stryker RealCock, then buying rubbers is nothing.
>> Anonymous
>>46001
thankfully I live in california, and OTC needles are available from the pharmacist, therefor condoms would never be an issue.

anyway, why waste your money or time at stores that would be following this retarded act? buy in bulk online, go to the planned parenthood and pick up a 200-bag for free, or buy in bulk when there actually IS a pharmacist.

IMO this would just be incredibly fun because, assuming you aren't shy, it would be a great chance to fuck with whoever the stockboy is.

ask the stockboy for condoms and when he says they are behind glass and he has to get the pharmacist, simply tell him "no thanks, I'll just go buy a box of latex gloves, some rubber bands and vaseline. thanks for your time though".
>> Anonymous
This reminds me, all of the Pizza Huts in Germany have condom dispensers in the bathrooms.
>> Anonymous
I cum in my girlfriend all I want. She's infertile. I'll never have kids and I get to creampie whenever I fucking want, or pull out and shoot on her pussy. Forget condoms.
>> Anonymous
>>45322
it could be because of store theft (shrinkage).
>> Anonymous
It's because of theft.

Contraceptives are one of the 5 most frequently stolen items in a store.
>> sage
>>46001
>>46002
hivemind
>> Anonymous
>>46427
I'd be jealous if I believed you.
>> Anonymous
Why the hell do you idiots think this is a harbinger of the decline of American society into a supermoral fascist state?

It is the LAW that you have to have contraceptives if you want them. Ask any school nurse for a dick glove and she'll shell 'em out. It is CVS policy to put them behind glass (unconfirmed, at least by me, and also unconfirmed that the pharmacist has to be present). If anything, they'll eventually get sued for limiting availability.
>> Anonymous
>>46429

because people are embarrassed to buy them.

now they gotta find other means...

my school gives them away for free. i just grab a handful every other day.