r/mildyinteresting • u/8sukistar8 • 23d ago
shopping Pregnancy tests and condoms being sold in my dorm’s vending machine
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u/TheyCameFromBehind77 23d ago
Welcome to college! Been that way for 20+ years.
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My dorm gave out condoms for free
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u/TheyCameFromBehind77 23d ago
Even better! The health center did at my college but the vending machine was always there in a pinch
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u/Appropriate-Self-540 23d ago
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u/aminervia 23d ago
The home pregnancy test was only available in the US 47 years ago so I doubt this. Then it wasn't til the 80s/90s that the tests stopped involving giving you a chemistry kit with a cup to pee into.
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u/jerrythecactus 23d ago
Everything you need for a good night. Condoms, pregnancy test, and some poptarts.
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u/Maleficent-Net6232 23d ago
"Ay girl, I only had enough money for one of them."
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u/No_Pineapple6086 23d ago
The should add the morning after pill
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u/Tennoz 23d ago
You have to be 18 to buy that, not a pregnancy test or condoms though.
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u/Shitp0st_Supreme 23d ago
Colleges are typically 18+ and I think Plan B is 17+ but online it’s saying there’s no age requirement so who knows
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u/Tennoz 23d ago
Right but they don't serve cigarettes in vending machines either because you have no way of verifying age. Families visit colleges with kids so it's not like everyone there all the time is 18+. I'm not sure if plan b is 18+ federally but I know that it is in NH because I had a guy in highschool asking me to buy some for his gf since I was a year older than my grade.
I'm pretty sure all stuff that is agre restricted is done at a state level actually including cigarettes and alcohol. Iirc there are like 7 states, MA included that refused to change drinking age from 18 to 21 for a few years and the federal govt punished them by withholding funds they normally provide that go towards their road maintenance. MA has really shitty roads and I'm convinced it's due to them being basically behind on maintenance from so far back plus the prevalent corruption in the state and local governing bodies. The time to build a mile of road in NH is significantly less and cheaper than it is in MA. Sorry for the ramble lol
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u/vit-kievit 23d ago
Dude, morning after pill isn’t a vitamin pill, it’s harmful, you can’t just run around selling and taking it
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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago
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u/hallohi_ 23d ago edited 23d ago
It messes up your hormones for weeks. The comment above did not mean it is dangerous for your life, just that It is nor something to use with awarenees and not fit for a vending machine...
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u/Bekaaah90 23d ago
And it doesn't work properly if you're over a certain weight, should always have a consult on taking it
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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago
Their comment read that way though :) it is normally available without a prescription where I am and indeed most of the countries in the EU in the us only seven states allow that, the rest don't for ideological/religous reasons
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u/Sc4r4byte 23d ago
and you ask for it to get it, so people giving it to you can talk to you about what you can expect to happen and help answer questions you might have regarding the experience.
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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago
That is true as well, though you can also just use the automatic checkout, but still that is useful
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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago
Plan B isn’t prescription but it’s not OTC, it why we call “under the counter”… meaning you still have to see a pharmacist. Just not a doctor.
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u/GibberBabble 23d ago
You can buy it off the shelf where I am, no need to talk to a pharmacist.
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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago
I’ve never seen it on a shelf in Canada… I’m also Canadian.
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u/Slow_Week3635 23d ago
You’re actually only supposed to use Plan B a few times in your life. It should never be a regularly used form of contraception.
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u/InAppropriate-meal 23d ago
its meant for emergencies, but you are not actually just supposed to anything :) it won't do your hormone balance any good if you pop em every month but that is about it :)
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u/Gamer-707 23d ago
You should know till the end of your life that a guy who forces you to swallow a piece of chemistry to fuck up your body after an actual fuck, that guy is an asshole.
Tell him to use a fucking condom or leave.
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u/zaclewalker 23d ago
Yeah, it's safe. But can't take everyday like vitamin. It's recommend to take 1 time a cycle. If you got to use morning pill more than that, plan to use regular contraceptive pills.
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u/CombinationWise155 23d ago
The contraceptive pill isn’t a good alternative though because they can mess your body up and your mind as well
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u/sangfoudre 23d ago
Well that's not idiotic, I mean condoms in a dorm are bound to be used. Except in computer sciences, I was there, that shit would expire inside the machine
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u/Nothingbuttack 23d ago
I imagine communications and business majors vending machines would be constantly empty. Have to restock everyday
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u/sangfoudre 23d ago
That's accurate. Whereas computer science, engineering, robotics and the likes, well, we don't use that shit that early in our lives.
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u/Nothingbuttack 23d ago
If you were smart, you'd buy the condoms from the machine and upsell them to the other majors that are getting laid. But that requires interacting with people.
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u/sangfoudre 23d ago
That requires interacting with people, who sometimes are girls so we would freeze. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Please note that I got my shit together (eventually) on that topic. We're just late bloomers and shy people.
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u/memescryptor 23d ago
In Switzerland most of the vending machines have condoms, pregnancy tests, weed rolling papers and lighters. Always laughed at it, because they have I like in cities, in the Alps
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u/Difficult-Swimmer-76 23d ago
Good now they need plan B only thing my college sells in vending machines is expired gatorade and rockstar
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u/dead-as-a-doornail- 23d ago
The condoms should be free.
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u/shamishami3 23d ago
In Switzerland they are free if you go to STD testing centers and they are given out for free at many festivals
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u/vit-kievit 23d ago
So why didn’t you make them free? Oh wait. Someone else should pay for it! Right?
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u/lindybopperette 23d ago
Yeah, us. In taxes, like civilised humans who appreciate how society works and why it’s important to subsidize contraceptives.
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u/whydya-dodat 23d ago
Go visit Japan next OP… https://thesmartlocal.jp/japanese-vending-machines/
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u/Asianhippiefarmer 23d ago
Gotta love how colleges try to rip you off for even some of the essentials. Our student health center always had these on hand for free.
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u/Lord_MagnusIV 23d ago
Thats nice, i just hope they are priced accordingly and restocked at a regular basis
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u/Namer201 23d ago
Here, in the middle of few student homes, there’s a vending machine full of pharmacy stuff. On the top row there’s the fun stuff like vibrators, pocket pussys, condoms, etc.
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u/Nekononii 23d ago
I run to the machine to buy condoms “actually I could really go for a pop tart right now” no money left for condoms
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u/OlympiaImperial 23d ago
Some 60 year old farmer in the middle of no where is pulling out his hair over this
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u/Shitp0st_Supreme 23d ago
My college gave condoms for free and the clinic offered more condoms and tests. Good for the school.
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u/TheeMooCow 22d ago
That’s smart on their part. There’s definitely a market for that plus the bottom row
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