Condom Conundrum

So.

This is something I have seen complained about, on several occasions. With my books, and with other books.

Condoms.

Why are book boyfriends such filthy whores that they never use condoms!?

Gross.

Honestly? I couldn't care two ways if a guy in a book uses a condom - these are just MY personal thoughts on the issue. You never once read about Jameson using a condom because - to be quite honest - I didn't think about it. I write sex scenes in a very similar fashion to how they happen in real life - quickly, without thinking too much about it, just trying to get to that explosive ending.

If an author wants to write condom use in to their story, bravo, good for them. But if they don't, I don't hold it against them, either.

In my opinion, we're reading FICTION, and since it's FICTION, then maybe this book takes place in a land where STDs don't exist and you only get pregnant when you decide you want to get pregnant.

Or maybe, since it's FICTION, the author is just glossing over it, and in the push and pull of the moment, the condom wrapping did happen, we just weren't privy to it. Most authors don't write in every time their characters pee and poop, but I'm gonna go ahead and assume those things happen, too (notice no one complains about that? Gotcha!).

Harry Potter is also FICTION, and I didn't need a disclaimer every time Harry whipped out his wand *nyuck nyuck* explaining to me that magic is not, in fact, real (LIES!!!!). I know magic isn't real. I know that I can't fly, or cast spells, or disappear - but I love to read about it, so I go with it. I don't need someone to remind me that it isn't real.

I know that under no circumstances, should a person EVER have sex for the first time with someone else WITHOUT using a condom. The only thing that's 100% safe is abstinence - if you don't want a fetching case of the Herpes, or a baby, wrap it up!

But I know that I am writing AND reading something that is entirely FICTION. And people will continue arguing this point, and maybe feel it's an author's duty to set a good example, or what have you.

But no one should use Jameson as a leading example for ANYTHING, least of all safe sex. He is a very, very bad boy.

Did you read the part where he likes to pay for sex!?

Gross.

(I'd still totally jump on that)