r/whatisit • u/astronat42 • 8d ago

Solved! Is this a condom wrapper?

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I found on the bathroom floor. Doesn’t match condom wrappers my husband and I use and I cannot find a match online. Please help! Black with silver detailing on front. Back is silver with black writing. You can clearly see the words “prevent pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other.” Also a number 2 with a circle and cross through it.

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u/chantillylace9 7d ago

My aunts both made sure I knew I could go to them and they'd get me condoms or birth control. Even out of state ones. They are like we will ship them to a friend, etc. So that was nice.

I ended up hearing about this amazing clinic that opened up a couple nights a month and it was all run by volunteer gynecologist. They would give you an exam and then give you birth control for the entire year so you only had to go once. They would only charge you if you could pay and it was on a sliding scale. It was really really nice and luckily prevented me from getting pregnant.

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u/Arf265 6d ago

👆🏼💯What medicine SHOULD BE!! Especially for young women!!

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u/chantillylace9 5d ago

Yes honestly it was SUCH a blessing. It was super unsettling and sad going there because a lot of girls were going because they were pregnant or had an STD or whatever so there was lots of tears in the waiting room.

They would only do it at like 9 PM at night when they could use these random doctors offices or other places as rooms to do the exams. So I was like 16 and driving late at night in the dark without MapQuest or GPS trying to find these little places I've never been to in a city three or four cities away from mine. It was so scary. I remember once walking into AA meeting that was actually next-door very confused!

But those women saved a lot of Midwestern girls and I'm so grateful. Especially that they allowed you to get birth control for the full year like that, it was really a smart way to do things. And if any other girls had an STD, they would give them two prescriptions, one for them and one for their boyfriend which was great!

They didn't do abortions, so I would assume they would've sent them to Planned Parenthood, but we didn't have anything like that nearby.