PSA: Plastic Service Announcement

I have a secret army of minions who scour the news for me and send me articles they think might be of interest. (For some unknown reason, most of said minions are Canadian. Maybe they just read more news?) They're a great resource for staying on top of STD news I might otherwise have missed, and they are also skilled at finding the more obscure stories about safe sex that tend to slide under my radar. Case in point - a piece entitled "Plastic Wrap is Not a Condom" which linked me to this video about STD myths compiled by a commercial STD screening service. Most of the items on the list are closely related to the ones I talk about in my STD misconceptions article, but the list did contain a doozy of a myth that was new to me - the aforementioned plastic wrap story.

Let me clearly state for the record: plastic wrap is not a condom. You may be able to use it, with reasonable success, as a dental dam (advice varies) to make oral sex safer, but in general it's a better idea to leave it in the kitchen. Plastic wrap is designed to help food stay fresh... not to help people get fresh.

• The "Plastic Wrap is Not a Condom" Video
• More STD Misconceptions
• How to Have Safe Sex
• How to Make a Dental Dam
• Oral Sex Isn't Safe Sex
• STD Screening Guidelines