Condoms sold in Japan

[wuchan]

people use condoms in japan?

[yanpa]

Yes, to stop their umbrellas dripping.

[Coligny]

people use condoms in japan?

people have seks in Japan ?

[wuchan]

people use condoms in japan?

people have seks in Japan ?

sure they do, just not with their wife/husband. GF gets knocked up, no drinking for a month to pay for the abortion.

[Coligny]

Good for my end of the business...

[matsuki]

Good for my end of the business...

You know there's a problem when abortion clinics start offer stamp cards. Abort 5 and get the 6th one freeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Kanchou]

Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?

Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?

Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.

It's not about access, it's about years of anti pill propaganda that makes people afraid to take it. Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so (doctors can actually prescribe you more than one month but most won't because they're scumbags who wan't to get money from the gubment).

[GomiGirl]

And they tell patients that taking the pill will most likely lead to weight gain.

That goes down like a cup of cold sick with young fashionable girlies.

[yanpa]

Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?

Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.

It's not about access, it's about years of anti pill propaganda that makes people afraid to take it. Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so (doctors can actually prescribe you more than one month but most won't because they're scumbags who wan't to get money from the gubment).

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

[Coligny]

Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?

Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.

D00d, the clinic is closed since 5 years, stopped taking deliveries since the early 90' and we still have vintage posters and pamphlets of all the brand and models of pills available.


I think the missconception of unavailability of the pill come from the delay for introduction of 'low dose' pills for health and safety reasons.

It's a drug, it's not a cheezeburger, being a little carefull is sometimes a good idea (maybe they'll do that for nukaplant one day too).

In France there start to be talk aboot removing from the market pills from 3rd and 4th generation as they seems to be doing more harm than good (like 'dead people' harm). Now if you think it's a manipulation against women and stuff... Just know that abortion and contraception are constitutionnal rights for the french law. Equivalent of the amendements for the americunz. Once established those rights can not be revoqued unless you wipe out all the legal system (ok, that would just need to have the german army walking the streets of Paris once again to happen, but this time we got nukes and the army generals have already shown in Algeria that if politicians are to scared to act they can write their own orders and shovel shit by themselves).

[Samurai_Jerk]

And they tell patients that taking the pill will most likely lead to weight gain.

That goes down like a cup of cold sick with young fashionable girlies.

When I finally convinced my ex to go on the pill, it was quite happy with the weight gain as it all seemed to go to her boobs.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?

Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.

It's not about access, it's about years of anti pill propaganda that makes people afraid to take it. Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so (doctors can actually prescribe you more than one month but most won't because they're scumbags who wan't to get money from the gubment).

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

[Kanchou]

Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so

^that is what I was referring to. If that's not a limit to practicality I don't know what is.

Plus they all think it will make them fat.

On another note, I think I might have to try the ones with the horse on the box next... except they'd probably still be too be too small around the base.

[Taro Toporific]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for a chronic condition such as insulin for a diabetic. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.

[yanpa]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.

I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.

I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)

Ah, maybe that's what it is. Since the pill isn't covered by NHS they don't have to stick to the three months or less rule. The thing is most doctors do anyway out of habit. I know, as Taro pointed out, that they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.

[Russell]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.

I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)

Ah, maybe that's what it is. Since the pill isn't covered by NHS they don't have to stick to the three months or less rule. The thing is most doctors do anyway out of habit. I know, as Taro pointed out, that they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.

You take the pill?!?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.

I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)

Ah, maybe that's what it is. Since the pill isn't covered by NHS they don't have to stick to the three months or less rule. The thing is most doctors do anyway out of habit. I know, as Taro pointed out, that they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.

You take the pill?!?

Yes. That's why my boobs are so big.

[Coligny]

Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply

I believe that's illegal.

It's because that's what she wantz him to believe...

Do you think M&M's is a real brand of oral contraceptives ?

[Coligny]

You take the pill?!?

Yes. That's why my boobs are so big.

That would explain the PMSing...

[Taro Toporific]

..they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.

Bingo! You hit on the magic way to get a 3-month perscription filled on Japanese national health: You have to claim you are going on extended time abroad, preferably on a Japanese-company business trip or to tend to a dying mother. Otherwise, the one-month rule for prescriptions is ironclad.

[Samurai_Jerk]

You take the pill?!?

Yes. That's why my boobs are so big.

That would explain the PMSing...

Not when you're on the pill it wouldn't.

[Coligny]

I TRIED TOO MAKEZ A FUNNAY...

/youz party p00per...

[matsuki]

Last lemur I brought to the US got an implant and apparently it's all the rage now stateside. It's like a toothpick that they slide into your arm and lasts 3 years. The bonus is most stop having periods so no worry of bloody murder scenes on nights when she starts early...cause uh, she won't start. Anyhow, no worrying about if she's actually taking the pills or forgot them. Won't protect against STD's but it's a pretty good way to prevent getting preggers until you actually want to. Maybe this is one time Japanese ineptness will do them some good though. Though the implant would let lemurs control when they wanted to get knocked up without any of the pill mendokusainess, they need all the babies they can get to prop up this country senior center.

[Kanchou]

The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.

I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).

Sort of how a lot of laws get in the way of someone setting up a rice farm big enough to make rice with prices competitive with foreign-made rice. (apparently it's very hard to buy farmland if you don't already own a significant amount)

[Samurai_Jerk]

The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.

I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).

That all sounds well and good and it tugs at my centrist heartstrings on days when my mood makes me lean to the left but the evidence doesn't support that theory. In Western European countries where daycare is plentiful and state subsidized and companies are required to give generous maternity and paternity leave by law birthrates are also extremely low. Meanwhile developing countries where people can't afford to feed themselves let alone the 8 babies they crank out and where both parents do backbreaking labor all day long have extremely high birthrates. The main reason that people in the developed world don't have babies is because it doesn't fit their lifestyle, they have better access to birth control, they understand the concept of family planning, and they don't have the same level of social pressure or any practical reason having lots of kids. Plus in those developed nations the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale tend have more babies.

[matsuki]

The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.

I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).

You give people too much credit for being able to plan their lives and let forward thinking guide them in their decision making. Sure, there are those that are put off by the cost and time put into ensuring the kiddos have a decent environment/support/education...but they are not the majority by any means.

Sort of how a lot of laws get in the way of someone setting up a rice farm big enough to make rice with prices competitive with foreign-made rice. (apparently it's very hard to buy farmland if you don't already own a significant amount)

I agree with this though...

[Kanchou]

The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.

I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).

That all sounds well and good and it tugs at my centrist heartstrings on days when my mood makes me lean to the left but the evidence doesn't support that theory. In Western European countries where daycare is plentiful and state subsidized and companies are required to give generous maternity and paternity leave by law birthrates are also extremely low. Meanwhile developing countries where people can't afford to feed themselves let alone the 8 babies they crank out and where both parents do backbreaking labor all day long have extremely high birthrates. The main reason that people in the developed world don't have babies is because it doesn't fit their lifestyle, they have better access to birth control, they understand the concept of family planning, and they don't have the same level of social pressure or any practical reason having lots of kids. Plus in those developed nations the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale tend have more babies.

Good point, but we're talking about a difference of a couple tenths over the current birthrate, not having several times as many kids.

Yes, birth control and family planning are why people have the option to not have kids when they don't have to, or when they can't afford to (within a given economy). I'm only suggesting that the birth rate would be back above the sustainable rate if a few tweaks to the current situation were made.

Also, the French birthrate is just over 2, versus the Japanese birthrate of 1.39 (compared a sustainable rate of 2.05), so statistically speaking, to suggest the policies aren't having an effect is like suggesting that the Japanese are just a tall as white Europeans because their the average height is only three inches shorter.

[Samurai_Jerk]

The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.

I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).

That all sounds well and good and it tugs at my centrist heartstrings on days when my mood makes me lean to the left but the evidence doesn't support that theory. In Western European countries where daycare is plentiful and state subsidized and companies are required to give generous maternity and paternity leave by law birthrates are also extremely low. Meanwhile developing countries where people can't afford to feed themselves let alone the 8 babies they crank out and where both parents do backbreaking labor all day long have extremely high birthrates. The main reason that people in the developed world don't have babies is because it doesn't fit their lifestyle, they have better access to birth control, they understand the concept of family planning, and they don't have the same level of social pressure or any practical reason having lots of kids. Plus in those developed nations the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale tend have more babies.

Good point, but we're talking about a difference of a couple tenths over the current birthrate, not having several times as many kids.

Yes, birth control and family planning are why people have the option to not have kids when they don't have to, or when they can't afford to (within a given economy). I'm only suggesting that the birth rate would be back above the sustainable rate if a few tweaks to the current situation were made.

Also, the French birthrate is just over 2, versus the Japanese birthrate of 1.39 (compared a sustainable rate of 2.05), so statistically speaking, to suggest the policies aren't having an effect is like suggesting that the Japanese are just a tall as white Europeans because their the average height is only three inches shorter.

If Japan let in a bunch of Muslim immigrants who refused to assimilate, they could achieve a higher birthrate too.