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"When I my friends and I first became sexually active, we&amp;amp;#8217;d often head to the next town to pick up condoms. For whatever reason, we worried that we&amp;amp;#8217;d be spotted buying the goods. Our plans usually went pretty smoothly until&amp;amp;#133; We ran into one of my ex&amp;amp;#8217;s good friends. He was a box boy at grocery store two towns away. As soon as I saw him, my stomach dropped and I wanted to leave. Happily, though, my best friend grabbed my arm and said something like, &amp;amp;#8220;So what? He&amp;amp;#8217;s going to know you&amp;amp;#8217;re having safe sex and maybe tell your ex whom you&amp;amp;#8217;ve slept with anyway? Big deal!&amp;amp;#8221; Right then, something clicked. It was a wake-up call for both of us and we realized that we didn&amp;amp;#8217;t need to scurry around on the DL for our condoms. I picked up a box and though I still had butterflies in my stomach, I marched up to the check stand. Funny enough, my ex&amp;amp;#8217;s friend must have been on his break or out in the parking lot on shopping-cart duty so my purchase remained a secret. For all he knew, I was picking up chocolate milk! Sure, even now I blush from time to time when buying condoms. But I don&amp;amp;#8217;t go out of my way to hide my purchases. In fact, I can&amp;amp;#8217;t help but giggle when I load up the most personal items ever (tampons, lube, over-the-counter UTI relief, condoms, acne cream and foot-odor powder) all up on to the check-out stand&amp;amp;#8217;s conveyor belt at the same time. So imagine how thrilled I was when I heard about MTV&amp;amp;#8217;s new campaign to help people find condom retailers. The (sometimes) music network has partnered with iCondom to create an app that uses GPS technology to locate closest available shops that sell condoms. Users are also encouraged to share information about these stores, like their hours and selection. This is a global effort; MTV and iCondom hope to map locations all over the world so that no matter where you are, you can quickly find a place to purchase protection: iCondom from mtv staying alive on Vimeo. What do you make of this app and campaign? Where do you purchase condoms from? The drugstore? An adult shop? A condom truck? And have you ever been embarrassed about buying condoms? Don&amp;amp;#8217;t be! P.S. Got a specific question about condoms, birth control or sexual health? Submit it to Dr. Kate! For more on sexual health&amp;amp;#133; * Women&amp;amp;#8217;s Health: Everything You Don&amp;amp;#8217;t Know About Your Ladyparts&amp;amp;#133;but Should! * Dancing Birth Control + Bollywood = the Video You Need to See RIGHT NOW * The Birth Control Your Ob-gyn Uses More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter. Photo: Jupiter Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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