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People Who Bring Condoms To Funerals 'Just In Case' Share Their Experiences

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Reddit user Broke_Pigeon_Sales asked: 'After a recent study found 1 in 8 men under 35 admit to taking condoms to funerals "just in case", what's your experience with this?'

Be it desperation, self-indulgence, or simply optimism, many people never leave home without a condom.

If the chances of "getting lucky" are much more likely at some places than others, one never knows where or when they might hit it off with someone.

Including a funeral.

Bizarre and tasteless as that sounds, a recent study reportedly showed that 1 in 8 men under the age of 35 do, in fact, bring condoms with them when attending a funeral, "just in case".

Whether or not these condoms were used, however, is another story entirely.


Redditor Broke_Pigeon_Sales was curious to hear the experiences of this dubious "1 in 8", leading them to ask:
"After a recent study found 1 in 8 men under 35 admit to taking condoms to funerals "just in case", what's your experience with this?"

Select Crowd...

"I went to my grandma's funeral and hit it off with this hot nurse."

"Things were going great until my brother pulled me aside and said it was my second cousin."

'You know who shows up at funerals for old people? "

"Family members."- bumblef**kglobal

"I remember seeing a really hot chick at my grandmother's funeral."

"Immediately thought was I should chat her up."

"Then my brain went to, 'What if she's family and we just never met?'"

"I just went back to mourning."- VideoGameDana

Okay then...

"Once I was dating a girl whose dad absolutely forbid us from dating."

"Like, would lock his daughter in her room and take her phone to make sure we did not communicate."

"She told me when we spoke for a moment at Starbucks that she would date me if her dad was out of the picture."

"He died is a car crash on the freeway, and since her mom liked me invited me to the funeral."

"My girl and I sat next to each other at the funeral and couldn't wait, got it on in the parking lot of the funeral home."

"Condom was necessary."- crunchysquare

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Never The Funeral, Always The Wake

"Ngl, some of the best parties I’ve been to have been wakes."

"In no way disrespectful, they were a celebration of the person’s life and also a massive tension release after grimness of the funeral itself."

"So I’m not surprised some people take a condom just in case."

"I’ve never done it, but I didn’t often expect to get laid regardless of situation."- Goryokaku

Oops...

"Proudly in the 7 out of 8 camp."

"But the 1 in 8 aren’t wrong."

"Heard through the family grapevine that one of my female cousins met a dude at a funeral and they banged it out the same night."

"Also turns out they were related (what’re the odds at the funeral of a relative? )."

"Distant enough they would never see each other again (different branches of her family), close enough that their family photo albums have overlapping people."- ESQBOJaguar

If You Really Think About It...

"Biologically speaking mourning/death triggers mating instincts as though that death tells the lizard brain in us that we need to procreate because death is scary."

"Scum'ically speaking, funerals typically leave people especially women in a state of fragility that leaves them vulnerable to suggestion and coercion."

"Socially speaking, some people, both men and women, seek comfort and company after/during a mourning period and when two people engage in comforting each other emotionally through a death it can trigger chemicals in the brain that cause the idea of connection or chemistry which can inevitably lead to copulation."- KURO-K1SH1

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Better Safe Than Sorry!

"If you forget to bring a condom you increase the chance of casual sex with 10.000%."

"It’s a well-known fact."- Mukkeman

Not Just Men...

"I'm not a man and I've taken condoms 'just in case' pretty much anywhere."

"I've told folks to take condoms 'just in case' to a festival who I was sure would never have a one night stand and who I had never even seen mingle with any man/woman."

"It's a safety."

"The thing costs less than a dollar, but if anything somehow would happen, not having it could cost you your healthiness or independence/freedom due to a child being your new responsibility."

"Unless you absolutely, 100% am sure you will not be having sex that day, and no one will be able to change your mind - carry a condom."

"And having visited a funeral is likely not impactful enough to everyone to make them absolutely sure of that."-deterministic_lynx

It Is, Indeed, A Source Of Comfort...

"I'm a woman, but I'm going to point out that grief affects everyone differently."

"Some people get an intense need for sex when they are grieving, I speak from experience here."

"Perhaps they're carrying them everywhere already, but choosing to take some specifically to a funeral makes perfect sense to me."- Sexy-Snowflake

"My bf's son died, and his sex drive was significantly higher around that time period, I think it's just a way men deal with stress."- Arielxxxlee

"There is no 'wrong' way to grieve."- Noctudeit

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Always Listen To Your Mother...

"When I turned 15 my mom told me to always have a condom in my wallet just in case."

"That was before people realized it was really bad to keep it in your wallet."

"So yeah I’ve been pretty much everywhere with one 'just in case'."- euphoria110

If It's Already There, Why Take It Out?

"I do too."

"I'm not going to remove the random condom that is in my wallet just because I'm going to a funeral."

"Not that I ever needed one, I'm still a virgin BTW."- azarbi

When One Life Ends, Another Begins...

"I’ve heard that the proximity of death increases the desire to make new life."

"Anecdotally, my FIL and MIL met at a funeral and 9 months later my husband was born."- KerouacsGirlfriend

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Not SPECIFICALLY Funerals...

"We bring condoms everywhere, 'just in case', not only the funeral, you silly!"- WeetIkVeelNL

No one should be judged if they happen to have a condom with them when attending a funeral.

After all, should the moment arise, better to be prepared and safe.

On the other hand, if any of these people are attending the funeral with the intention of "getting lucky", that's just... yeah...

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