Does the fear of pregnancy and/or STDs make you less likely to engage in casual sex?

If you're gay or bi, then answer regarding whether fear of STDs makes you less likely to engage in casual sex with people of your OWN gender (one of the last 3 options).
If you're straight, then answer regarding whether pregnancy and/or fear of STDs makes you less likely to engage in casual sex with people of the opposite gender.
Does the fear of pregnancy and/or STDs make you less likely to engage in casual sex?
I wouldn't want to engage in casual sex, even if unwanted pregnancy and/or STDs didn't exist.
Vote A
I'm straight. Fear of pregnancy and/or STDs does NOT make me less likely to engage in casual sex.
Vote B
I'm straight. Fear of pregnancy and/or STDs makes me somewhat/considerably less likely to engage in casual sex.
Vote C
I'm straight. Fear of pregnancy and/or STDs makes me much less likely to engage in casual sex, /OR/ it makes it so that I don't engage in casual sex at all.
Vote D
I'm bi or gay. Fear of STDs does NOT make me less likely to engage in casual sex (with people of my own gender).
Vote E
I'm bi or gay. Fear of STDs makes me somewhat/considerably less likely to engage in casual sex (with people of my own gender)
Vote F
I'm bi or gay. Fear of STDs makes me much less likely to engage in casual sex, /OR/ it makes it so that I don't engage in casual sex at all (with people of my own gender)
Vote G
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  • STDs? A little. Pregnancy? Nah, that's the goal

  • Stay strapped

  • Not in the least. you've gotta have some sense of adventure

  • Not super worried about pregnancy since I got snipped. STDs yeah that's a worry but there's lots of precautions before sex is even an option

  • I personally as a man think the question should also include rape and feeling used and shamed afterwards.

  • I have 5 kids different mom's they where friends then we all caught feelings... and I had a lot of sex with females on pof never wore protection being a fucking dumb ass but std free im lucky i guess you could say but now when it comes to having sex I'm scared... even with a condom I'm scared... I don't know man

  • This is a really important issue because you don't have a chance to come back, especially if you have the following diseases (aids, hiv, gonorrhea)

  • Sex period.

  • No but that corona virus sure keeps me sexually sober

  • Ever heard of condoms/contraceptives?😑

  • Despite... The fear won't stop me. There're protection methods.

  • I stopped having casual sex after I met my so a year and a half ago. I don't think I would ever go back to that lifestyle. Before I met my so I really didn't care about myself and had a ton of casual sex and random hookups I didn't care about STD's or anything. Since I didn't care about myself I tried to get self-worth through sex and I didn't take any BC and made little effort to get guys to use condoms. But I got extremely lucky and have been tested many times since I stopped and have no STD's and never go pregnant.

  • STDs and avoiding the emotional fall out I'll have from connecting with someone I have no feelings for. Condoms don't always provide 100% protection and if used correctly there wouldn't even be oral sex done without a condom but that doesn't happen a lot.

  • Among other things, yes, but overall, my brain keeps me away from engaging in casual sex, such stuff is reserved for dumb and primitive people. From an evolutionary standpoint, promiscuity among humans is dying out. Promiscuous people are inferior in all fields.

  • I'm straight. Fear of pregnancy and/or STDs makes me much less likely to engage in casual sex, /OR/ it makes it so that I don't engage in casual sex at all.

  • Yep!

    The lack of concern the men I've been with in the last is shocking to me now. A lot of the time they'd try talking their way out of using a condom, or they'd say "just for a little bit" so lol.

    I could be the most careful person in the world, and these dudes would somehow figure out how to make things very unsafe. Hard noooo.

    • That’s what I’m afraid of! 🤦🏽‍♀️