I'm pinning this comment to answer some frequent questions I've seen down in the comments below. 1. So what are the official per-use rates of unintended pregnancy with condoms? There aren't any! When researchers study this, they look at sexually active couples that use only condoms and then report the rate of unintended pregnancy. They do not report how many times those couples have sex. Using separate data on how often the average couple has sex (which varies tremendously) I calculated that between 0.01% and 0.005% of properly encondomed boinks result in unintended pregnancy. That's between 1 in 10,000 and one in 20,000. The wide range is because it's unclear how much people have sex and rates of unintended pregnancies also have a range. 2. How are condoms so frequently misused?! Usually it's that use is inconsistent. People may put them on half way through, they might think they're not at a dangerous time of the month, they might just take a risk when there isn't a condom handy. Also, proper use requires that you use plenty of water-based lubrication, with the proper size, and that your condoms aren't expired. 3. How do people get pregnant when using a condom properly? Condoms break. It really does happen. You don't ever think it will until it does! 4. What's the difference between an unintended and an unwanted pregnancy? Many people want a baby, they just don't want it exactly 9 months from now. So when one of those couples gets pregnant, it's usually referred to as "mis-timed" because, like, they 100% want the baby. Mis-timed and unwanted pregnancies are lumped together as "unintended" and I think that's fair. 5. Why did a basketball coach teach you sex ed? I DON'T KNOW IT WAS WEIRD Leave more questions below and I'll try to answer!
vlogbrothers sex educator here! A big reason for the gap between typical and perfect use is human error in the process of putting on a condom. Often times people put the condom on upside down and can't roll it down so they flip it over and put it the rest of the way on, but then the side that goes in the vagina has been exposed to pre-ejaculate which often contains semen. Similarly people may put on a condom with hands that have touched that same pre-ejaculate which also leads to exposure. The perfect method is not always easy to perfect, especially with poor sex ed as a foundation.
Lets say there is some kind of mess up with the condom. What happens to the 1 in 1000 statistic then? I know there will be statistics for unprotected sex (although probably yearly and per-instance would be better), but what about slight mess ups instead of full blown condom break/unprotected sex?
I'm all for encouraging the use of better methods of birth control than condoms, especially if you're having lots of sex, but I think the idea that condoms are terrible at preventing pregnancy (which they aren't) makes some people believe that they might as well not even use them.
I always wonder how reliable even this 2% number is. Know just how over engineered condoms are these days I bet the number is much lower than 2%. If you want to see something crazy see how much water you can put into a condom before it has a structural failure. How did the scientists do these studies?
After a bunch of arguments with anti-abortion folks I found out that the odds of getting pregnant without birth control was between 1 in 12 to 1 in 20 times. If Hank's numbers are accurate that means using a condom decreases the odds of pregnancy "per sex" to something like 1 in 4,000.
@@Amandasbarros You can check the condom,, if there is leakage..Go to the pharmacy and get Plan B. It would be help greatly if it's used correct and (like the instructions on them say) the guy does not climax while inside of her.
Thoughts And feels I like that Hank's video topics varies so much. I wish John's videos varied a little bit more, but don't get me wrong I love John and his videos.
His book release is the final culmination of years of work and stress that he's only been able to discuss publicly in a very roundabout way. Finally publishing to the public the result of this effort is a really big moment in an author's life and has so many emotions wrapped into it. With that in mind, I'm more than happy to indulge John if he wants to talk about what's going on in his life.
Hank, you may find it interesting to know that I didn't even get statistics in my sex Ed class! My state has a mandatory abstinence only policy. So we got discussions on how to properly take people on dates and not have sex with them.
Something that's always made me uncomfortable is the stereotypes around birth control. So I'm 16 and I'm on the pill but I've never had sex. I take the pill because because I'm anemic and I need to keep as much blood in my body as I can. I use it control my period. My friend has an implant in her arm. She isn't currently active but her and her mother say better safe than sorry. Both of us try to tell as little people as possible. When I first stared the pill I had a smuggle it into church camp so they won't yell at me for having sex (that I wasn't) can people who have birth control in place not be called rude names and assumed to be as hank would say "humping the town"
jliller I was passing out alot and my period just wrecked me. I guess we just need go be more informed. But the problems is also people thinking that it's "Oh crap already banging a bunch" but it's really "better safe then sorry"
I have, like you, been on the pill to keep as much blood in my body as possible, and just because I'm not one to shout about bodily functions I don't tell many people, but nonetheless it does take some explaining, which is annoying.
Sandra de Vries Good question! The role of health teacher is often pushed onto the physical education and sports coaches if there is no health teacher in the school. I remember my class asking why this was back in middle school, and our teacher said that when they went through college to become a physical education teacher, there is an optional class you can take to become qualified to teach sex ed. I guess that the duty got thrown onto gym teachers because they are the ones that mostly closely work with the body, and sex has to do with the body, so... Eh!
Sandra de Vries it probably varies by school district. But then, maybe it's changed over time. I'm similar in age to Hank and John, but it was never coaches that taught it in my schools. We had a separate health teacher who taught it as part of the health curriculum.
Hey now, just because you may or may not be the result of a condom failure, that doesn't mean you're a failure! You're an amazing human being with so much potential! As the pokemon Mewtwo once said, "the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
Chaos3000and3, here's a funny story for you and Harvey Rain: I was an 'on purpose child' my parents couldn't get pregnant for a year after marriage, they went to the Md, then I happened. My parents were emotionally distant, yelled when I was loud or did kid stuff and I always wondered "why did my parents have me and then my sister on purpose if they hate loud obnoxious kids?" The take-away is this: being a 'not mistake' does not = happy childhood or loving parents.
I'm assuming you're addressing me and Chaos. to answer your question, we care? i guess? as a dad I can say that I look at the young people on this channel and want them, and you, to know that you have intrinsic value, that your birth is like your race or gender... it's just who you are. Your decisions in live are what make who you ARE.
me and my 3 siblings are 4 different forms of failed birth control. my brother was condoms, i was the pill, my sister was scheduling, and the youngest was spermicide. choose ur fighter
hi hank! Im studying to be a doctor,and as a person who gets to meet people firsthand who taboo sex education and somehow teach their kids how its a 'forbidden topic' ,I think our community is doing a very good job of educating people and lightening this dark aura that is associated to contraception and sex ed. thank you! DFTBA!
This is why I really wish that Scishow Statistics was a thing. Even a Scishow Sociology for which Stats is a pretty major part of it would be cool. O well, I guess I'll just wait on the Nerdfiteria census and following Hankschannel vid.
That's such an interesting point! I hadn't really considered the temporal/framing difference that's emerged in their approaches; when the channels started the divide was more topical.
This is one of the best explanations of statistics as they pertain to safer sex I have heard. Even as a former (sex positive) safer sex educator in her mid 30's. Thank you.
Hank, thank you for talking about this. I was taught abstinence-only while in school, and while I turned out okay, I dream of a world where health education (and statistics interpretation!) is more comprehensively taught for all. Also I've been a proud IUD owner for almost seven years.
Thank you so much for this video, Hank. I've asked about this statistic from high school to college level courses and nobody has ever known what the "2% a year" meant.
I'm a psychology student who does research on the sociocognitive factors involved in sexual health decision making, and this video is really well-done. Thank you, Hank!
I went to a Catholic High School. We were told that condoms "somewhat lowered the rate of pregnancy and disease transmission" but we weren't given any statistics and were also told that contraceptives are immoral. Hank, you're the lucky ones.
To be charitable, that's in the right ballpark for a lifetime of condom use (actual use, not perfect use). Still, dangerously misleading to not explain it properly.
I can completely relate. Our district had (and, I believe, still has) an abstinence-only policy that actually required the school to only talk about contraceptive and safer sex practices by focusing on failure rates and complications. So we heard about the pill in that we were told that no one should ever use it because you can end up blood clots and hormonal problems (in addition to making sex less than fun for guys, because that's important apparently); we were told that condoms have frequent manufacturing issues that lead to microscopic holes and cause rashes (and were also made aware that it makes sex less enjoyable for guys). When I questioned how birth control pills were still approved by the FDA or how the condom industry still existed if there really were so many problems, they said it was because we lived in a godless country that used commercialism to tempt people into sin and the existence of birth control and condoms was a test from the devil for which god would punish us. In a public school. We weren't told about any other methods except abstinence, and were assured that none of us should ever have to use any kind of birth control method because "God will take care of your pregnancy plans". In a public school. We were also told that if we had sex with anyone but our spouse or if we had sex before marriage that we would be damned to hell. In a public school. We were showed multiple slideshows on STIs and were told that 100% of STIs occur outside married couples and that 95% of people who engaged in premarital/extramarital sex contracted STIs. It's horrifying that not only is such misinformation allowed, but it was actually encouraged by the school district, and this sort of thing still happens regularly all over the country.
If I read your statement without knowing that happened in reality it's hilarious to read the absurdity in it, when it hit me that that actually happened to someone (you and many others)... it's just unbelievable!. I really dont believe it, they are ruining those kid's lifes, it's so wrong. I am speechless. Hope you were able to get a better education after that.
Mariel thankfully, sex positive folks online and Sexplanations came out shortly after I got to college, so I used those resources and made good friends with the PP folks who would come to campus for various safer sex programs and such. I have since shared such resources with my sister (currently 17) so she can also get accurate information, and she's been sharing it with her friends as well. Apparently there's currently an underground exchange of accurate and sex positive education at my old high school!
Mariel, I knew at the time how ridiculous the teaching was. I had a mom who was pretty cool and progressive when it came to talking about sex stuff. I never felt like I personally lost out. Can't say the same about the community as a whole and its above-average teen pregnancy rate, but that's a whole different discussion.
I love how much learning there is to this video in its different facets: a bit of how stats work, a lot on how stats are routinely misunderstood, public health, how ill-served the public is by sex ed in what seems like most cases, the learning that Hank did, etc etc.
This was nice, an actual informational clip. I like John and Hank well enough. They have an onscreen presence that I find engaging. They're easy to listen to... Though they seem to talk too fast, and I have to replay the clips sometimes to catch everything. The last few weeks, they seem to have been talking about their personal lives, and what's been going on. Whatever. That's all good. It's not what I've come to the Vlog Brothers to listen to. I enjoy listening to the information they disseminate, they seem informed and intelligent. As human beings, I'm glad they're getting on well in life. They're not my friends, and I don't need to know what's happening in their personal lives.
All of my sex-ed was done through the internet, and i'm honestly kinda glad about that. I got the truth (even if i had to get it myself at a much older age) The sex-ed in our country REALLY needs improving, unfortunately, everyone and their mother has a taboo about talking about sex.
Data analysis and interpretation is so important! That's why I love this video so much. Because data does never perfectly represent reality. And for each set of data there a factors that can falsify the result or can lead to misconclusions. My favorite example for this are autism statistics. Yes, the number of people diagnosed with autism increased in the last decade but that doesn't mean that more people "got" autism all of a sudden but only that the more people actually got a diagnosis than before, and that can have various reasons like the means of diagnosing it got better or parents/teachers/etc. recognize the characteristics more often because there is more awareness now than there was before.
My immediate reactions was something along the lines of "ew dad no" which probably says bad things about my relationship with TH-cam because Hank is NOT MY FATHER
Surprisingly informative. This is one of those videos that I think would actually benefit from a more clickbaity title like "The condom failure rate doesn't mean what you think it does."
"You may not be an average person, nobody really is" Whenever I think about that, I'm always reminded of the quote "According to statistics, the average person has one testicle and one breast".
Hey Hank, I rarely comment but I'm about 15 years past the time when I needed this info but BOY DID I NEED IT and the students I teach now need this! I don't teach this subject and therefore cannot approach this with them. Please continue with this kind of content to make this less confusing. Thank you :)
I always mistook the "2%" statistic to be "2% per sexual encounter" thing too, but I never thought too deeply about it. I just took it in the much more optimistic "there's a 98% chance I won't get pregnant using them" way. It seemed a lot more reasonable from that angle.
This is a fantastic video, and I'm going to use it the next time I teach statistics, particularly because it's a great reminder that probability is not the most important part of statistics. The most important part of statistics is a clear statement of what was measured and how. Once you understand where the numbers come from, it becomes much easier to reason about the random variations behind them.
At my high school, when it was time to teach sex ed, the teacher would be "sick" those two days every single year. So every single kid learned it from a ninety year old substitute teacher.
This video was super informative and helpful! You spoke so naturally about it that it didn't feel weird at all. These 4 minutes were super helpful, but I would love to see you guys make an extended sex ed video. It's a sad world when I can trust youtubers to properly inform me better than my own school district.
That stat also boggled my brain in high school, thanks for sharing this! (Also I'm kind of genuinely surprised there wasn't a Sexplainations plug? Totally seems like a natural place for it.)
THIS IS IMPORTANT and these numbers make so much more sense now. The only sex ed I've gotten through school that was actually useful and informative was in my AP Psych class. Our teacher squeezed in a unit on sex, and after giving her own presentation, she had us get into groups and design our own versions of our ideal sex ed curriculum, researching what we wish we'd been taught about. So many people, teens especially, feel like they have to walk on eggshells when it comes to these topics, and a lot of the information that circulates both online and IRL is either oversimplified or totally false. I so appreciate her for creating the space to have an open and honest discussion facilitated by an educated adult, and I wish everyone could have that.
Hey Hank! Thank you so much for this video. I hope it helps end some people's misunderstandings and misconceptions, and I too am glad that there are many more resources on the internet that do so as well. I truly wish there was a way to change/improve the way schools teach kids sex ed in America so that people who don't see videos like these are still fully informed about sex.
Me and my now-ex used condoms every single time correctly and (every single time) I checked them with water shortly after to see if there was any leakage, and I never came inside her with the condom. Never once had a pregnancy scare, although she was late by about 5 days once, and with my anxiety, I starting having internal worry..In fact, the 2nd time she was "late" she didn't tell me knowing I'd freak out. Conversely, her sister and her BF didnt use it every time (it was a "well..we try to, but if we don't find one, we just do it anyway) and got pregnant. Majority of the time unwanted pregnancy is a result from bareback sex.
Because in the US (in most schools) you take one quarter of the year to do sex ed rather than physical education and you often get your PE teacher as your sex ed teacher.
I was kinda surprised too! Especially since Hank-- or Complexly, properly speaking-- was the one who initially thought of Sexplanations and asked Lindsey if she'd like to do the show.
Hank, this is a super important video because I've asked a lot of these same questions about the 2% number. It always bothered me and I think people see it and underestimate the effectiveness of condoms as a personal choice for birth control method. If you know you can and will use them perfectly, that number still sounds pretty scary. Your breakdown helps with that, though I feel like it's still pretty hard to grasp. Like so much of probability and statistics, it's not intuitive. I think that 2% (and other, less accurate figures) are used as scare tactics by abstinence only groups. Understanding the number better helps counter that misinformation. I also always wondered what the number meant, as I've gotten to my forties with no other birth control method and no unwanted pregnancies. If it were 2% of the time, I'd be an outlier. As it is, I'm not.
Thank you for making this video Hank! This is so important and governments do a really shit job of providing average-joe friendly data. And as you hinted at on Twitter, platforms like TH-cam don't really incentivise people to make content like this. This kind of content (and that put out by Dr Doe) is so important, thank you.
Chose the right size, be hard, lubrify (water based lubricant of spit) pinch before rolling down, check if it's still all the way down periodically, withdraw right after ejaculation.
I love my Nexplanon implant. Makes me feel much more safe. Obviously I still need to worry about condoms failing when it comes to diseases, but it puts my mind at ease to know I've got pretty much a 0% chance of having an unwanted pregnancy. So it enabled me with more freedom, and helped my menstrual cramps, too! Love it!
Yeah I'm still not too happy about using just condoms as birth control, but IUDs or hormones also don't sound so hot. Ughhh I just don't want babies ffs
Shane Davis Using oil based lubricant, not changing condoms if he becomes flacid then hard again, not using enough lube, not pinching the top of the condom when putting it on, using the wrong size, not checking to see if it slipped off
People are stressed out and uneducated about condoms. Follow the instructions by the letter, even if it kills the mood. Tbh, I don't know of any study that can verify the most prevalent mistakes, most experience is anectodal and restrospective.
I thought that after you turn 100, you can still get pregnant, but you end up having a shadow-demon murder-baby. Now that I think about it though, I probably shouldn't have gotten most of my sex-ed from Game of Thrones.
When doing sex ed classes to grade 10+es: after doing a condom demo, we like to ask the question aloud to the class. "So when we are done with this condom, do we just run it under the tap and save it for next time?"
Thanks for clearing this up! I always found it to be really confusing as I'm sure most people do. On a similar note, thanks for helping make Sexplanations a thing. I have learned so much from that channel.
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I'm pinning this comment to answer some frequent questions I've seen down in the comments below.
1. So what are the official per-use rates of unintended pregnancy with condoms?
There aren't any! When researchers study this, they look at sexually active couples that use only condoms and then report the rate of unintended pregnancy. They do not report how many times those couples have sex. Using separate data on how often the average couple has sex (which varies tremendously) I calculated that between 0.01% and 0.005% of properly encondomed boinks result in unintended pregnancy. That's between 1 in 10,000 and one in 20,000. The wide range is because it's unclear how much people have sex and rates of unintended pregnancies also have a range.
2. How are condoms so frequently misused?!
Usually it's that use is inconsistent. People may put them on half way through, they might think they're not at a dangerous time of the month, they might just take a risk when there isn't a condom handy. Also, proper use requires that you use plenty of water-based lubrication, with the proper size, and that your condoms aren't expired.
3. How do people get pregnant when using a condom properly?
Condoms break. It really does happen. You don't ever think it will until it does!
4. What's the difference between an unintended and an unwanted pregnancy?
Many people want a baby, they just don't want it exactly 9 months from now. So when one of those couples gets pregnant, it's usually referred to as "mis-timed" because, like, they 100% want the baby. Mis-timed and unwanted pregnancies are lumped together as "unintended" and I think that's fair.
5. Why did a basketball coach teach you sex ed?
I DON'T KNOW IT WAS WEIRD
Leave more questions below and I'll try to answer!
vlogbrothers sex educator here! A big reason for the gap between typical and perfect use is human error in the process of putting on a condom. Often times people put the condom on upside down and can't roll it down so they flip it over and put it the rest of the way on, but then the side that goes in the vagina has been exposed to pre-ejaculate which often contains semen. Similarly people may put on a condom with hands that have touched that same pre-ejaculate which also leads to exposure. The perfect method is not always easy to perfect, especially with poor sex ed as a foundation.
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Thank the lord I'm ace. These numbers are making my head spin...
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Lets say there is some kind of mess up with the condom. What happens to the 1 in 1000 statistic then? I know there will be statistics for unprotected sex (although probably yearly and per-instance would be better), but what about slight mess ups instead of full blown condom break/unprotected sex?
2% fail rate SOUNDS HORRIFYING. It was really just poor wording, thanks for clearing everything up! Love the show!
I'm all for encouraging the use of better methods of birth control than condoms, especially if you're having lots of sex, but I think the idea that condoms are terrible at preventing pregnancy (which they aren't) makes some people believe that they might as well not even use them.
I always wonder how reliable even this 2% number is. Know just how over engineered condoms are these days I bet the number is much lower than 2%. If you want to see something crazy see how much water you can put into a condom before it has a structural failure. How did the scientists do these studies?
Whoa I thought this was gonna be a really weird way of Hank announcing a second kid 😅
WateverWatever04 That would've been hilarious
I definitely thought that too.
WateverWatever04 lmao
WateverWatever04 Me, too. lol
That....would be a really weird way to announce a second kid!
The Fault In our Condoms
"Get those broken condoms off the couch"
"Honey don't call the kids that"
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totally made me irl lol
After a bunch of arguments with anti-abortion folks I found out that the odds of getting pregnant without birth control was between 1 in 12 to 1 in 20 times.
If Hank's numbers are accurate that means using a condom decreases the odds of pregnancy "per sex" to something like 1 in 4,000.
marie mac lol
"Hey Twoper, did you finish your homework?"
as a person who has constant anxiety about birth control failing i'd like to say this video is terrifying as heck
God I'm so terrified of having sex at this point. What if the birth control and the condom decides to fail in the same day?
@@Amandasbarros You can check the condom,, if there is leakage..Go to the pharmacy and get Plan B. It would be help greatly if it's used correct and (like the instructions on them say) the guy does not climax while inside of her.
Will there ever be a Sexual Education Crash Course? It could save a lot of lives, of gym teachers and teenagers alike.
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sexplanations
I second this!
Hank Green produces sexplanations! Please check it out!! Its super educational and inclusive
This would be so helpful please Hank!
John: has a upload schedule mostly about the same things in his life.
Hank : talks about whatever but today about sex
Thoughts And feels I like that Hank's video topics varies so much. I wish John's videos varied a little bit more, but don't get me wrong I love John and his videos.
Kk
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His book release is the final culmination of years of work and stress that he's only been able to discuss publicly in a very roundabout way. Finally publishing to the public the result of this effort is a really big moment in an author's life and has so many emotions wrapped into it. With that in mind, I'm more than happy to indulge John if he wants to talk about what's going on in his life.
Why compare? Why not meet each of them where they are and appreciate them for who they are?
Isn't that how you'd like people to treat you?
Nice shirt ;)
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That is a interesting point about statistics that make me think of that Veritasiun video about statistics and WWII plains and falling cats
Hank, you may find it interesting to know that I didn't even get statistics in my sex Ed class! My state has a mandatory abstinence only policy. So we got discussions on how to properly take people on dates and not have sex with them.
Katie Jones That is just Dumb! No wonder America has problems with unintended pregnancies.
And I guess those states that have a "mandatory abstinence only policy." is high on the list of number of unintended pregnancies.
bknesheim one of the highest, actually
well i've never heard of Sex Ed classes in my country, so! XD
That is awful. Should make a student led sex-ed group and name it something veiled like Dumbledore's Army.
...1 view. I've never truly understood power until this moment.
Something that's always made me uncomfortable is the stereotypes around birth control. So I'm 16 and I'm on the pill but I've never had sex. I take the pill because because I'm anemic and I need to keep as much blood in my body as I can. I use it control my period. My friend has an implant in her arm. She isn't currently active but her and her mother say better safe than sorry. Both of us try to tell as little people as possible. When I first stared the pill I had a smuggle it into church camp so they won't yell at me for having sex (that I wasn't) can people who have birth control in place not be called rude names and assumed to be as hank would say "humping the town"
I've always been very open about birth control (and all my other health issues), but I'm lucky enough to live in a pretty liberal place.
I was in my mid-20s before anyone told me women use birth control pills (or variants thereof) for anything other than preventing pregnancy.
jliller I was passing out alot and my period just wrecked me. I guess we just need go be more informed. But the problems is also people thinking that it's "Oh crap already banging a bunch" but it's really "better safe then sorry"
Patricia Hawbaker my school pushed our first openly trans student down the stairs till he cracked his head open.
I have, like you, been on the pill to keep as much blood in my body as possible, and just because I'm not one to shout about bodily functions I don't tell many people, but nonetheless it does take some explaining, which is annoying.
Raw data 😏😂
nmartin60 'it's for science '
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Great info. This should be taught in every sex ed class.
Dr. Lindsay Doe would be so proud, Hank.
Chae Howard - laci green too.
she actually tweeted "You are my hero" at Hank in response to this video ;)
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Lindsay Doe isn't exactly totally pro-science (*cough*homeopathy*cough*)
4ppych [citation needed]
Wait wait, why is sex-ed in the US taught by basket ball coaches?
schools are too cheap to hire more people
Sandra de Vries In many schools, sex ex is taught by gym teachers.
Health is part of Physical education, PE is taught by... well basketball coaches pretty often.
Sandra de Vries Good question! The role of health teacher is often pushed onto the physical education and sports coaches if there is no health teacher in the school. I remember my class asking why this was back in middle school, and our teacher said that when they went through college to become a physical education teacher, there is an optional class you can take to become qualified to teach sex ed.
I guess that the duty got thrown onto gym teachers because they are the ones that mostly closely work with the body, and sex has to do with the body, so... Eh!
Sandra de Vries it probably varies by school district. But then, maybe it's changed over time. I'm similar in age to Hank and John, but it was never coaches that taught it in my schools. We had a separate health teacher who taught it as part of the health curriculum.
Getting this notification made me do a double take but I'm very glad you addressed this topic
Kaitlyn Carroll lol ikr I looked and I was like "What?"
I see you 3blue1brown shirt.
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I was about to say that :D
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You where 2 fast 4 me :)
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pretty sure im a condom failure
Hey now, just because you may or may not be the result of a condom failure, that doesn't mean you're a failure! You're an amazing human being with so much potential! As the pokemon Mewtwo once said, "the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
Chaos3000and3, here's a funny story for you and Harvey Rain:
I was an 'on purpose child' my parents couldn't get pregnant for a year after marriage, they went to the Md, then I happened. My parents were emotionally distant, yelled when I was loud or did kid stuff and I always wondered "why did my parents have me and then my sister on purpose if they hate loud obnoxious kids?"
The take-away is this: being a 'not mistake' does not = happy childhood or loving parents.
wow how did you turn my crappy comment in to a wholesome message
I'm assuming you're addressing me and Chaos.
to answer your question, we care? i guess? as a dad I can say that I look at the young people on this channel and want them, and you, to know that you have intrinsic value, that your birth is like your race or gender... it's just who you are.
Your decisions in live are what make who you ARE.
I'm positive I am.
me and my 3 siblings are 4 different forms of failed birth control. my brother was condoms, i was the pill, my sister was scheduling, and the youngest was spermicide. choose ur fighter
I'm sure they worked most of the time, but you and your siblings just would not be denied.
your dad's got some strong swimmers
Helena Zerple so abstinence is key .
hi hank! Im studying to be a doctor,and as a person who gets to meet people firsthand who taboo sex education and somehow teach their kids how its a 'forbidden topic' ,I think our community is doing a very good job of educating people and lightening this dark aura that is associated to contraception and sex ed. thank you! DFTBA!
This is why I really wish that Scishow Statistics was a thing. Even a Scishow Sociology for which Stats is a pretty major part of it would be cool. O well, I guess I'll just wait on the Nerdfiteria census and following Hankschannel vid.
there's Crash Course sociology!
I know and love Crash Course sociology but it doesn't really deal with current events like the Scishows (original, space and psychology).
That's such an interesting point! I hadn't really considered the temporal/framing difference that's emerged in their approaches; when the channels started the divide was more topical.
Expecting hank to make some comment about his child.. thank goodness :3
Vikings488 thought he was gonna make one about himself - JUST KIDDING
Hey Hank! Thank you for doing this! As a sex educator this really helps 💕
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This is one of the best explanations of statistics as they pertain to safer sex I have heard. Even as a former (sex positive) safer sex educator in her mid 30's. Thank you.
Hank, thank you for talking about this. I was taught abstinence-only while in school, and while I turned out okay, I dream of a world where health education (and statistics interpretation!) is more comprehensively taught for all. Also I've been a proud IUD owner for almost seven years.
Thought title said "our condom failure"...
Lost Connection Looking for Condoms. An Abundance of Condoms. Condoms All The Way Down. These books are great for this purpose.
That’d be a weird pregnancy announcement
Thank you so much for this video, Hank. I've asked about this statistic from high school to college level courses and nobody has ever known what the "2% a year" meant.
This has really cleared some things up thank you. I was also really confused when I first heard that statistic.
This video blew my mind, it is a thousand times more helpful than the sex ed videos I saw in school
"100th year... pretty unlikely"
AMAZING.
I'm a psychology student who does research on the sociocognitive factors involved in sexual health decision making, and this video is really well-done. Thank you, Hank!
Sex ed is so important! Thanks for making this video, stats are so interesting!
I have been wondering this FOR YEARS. Hank, thank you for not forgetting to be awesome.
I went to a Catholic High School. We were told that condoms "somewhat lowered the rate of pregnancy and disease transmission" but we weren't given any statistics and were also told that contraceptives are immoral. Hank, you're the lucky ones.
I can't believe how misleading that who 2% thing is! Thanks for shedding some light on the topic
I'm not going to comment FIRST. But bless you notification squad!!! Also, I love you Hank and John. You inspire me to see things beyond face value 😘
Dude, you cannot imagine how useful that video was, thank you
My sex-ed teacher told us that the condom failure rate was "fifty to eighty percent." That's abstinence-only 'education' for ya!
To be charitable, that's in the right ballpark for a lifetime of condom use (actual use, not perfect use). Still, dangerously misleading to not explain it properly.
I can completely relate. Our district had (and, I believe, still has) an abstinence-only policy that actually required the school to only talk about contraceptive and safer sex practices by focusing on failure rates and complications. So we heard about the pill in that we were told that no one should ever use it because you can end up blood clots and hormonal problems (in addition to making sex less than fun for guys, because that's important apparently); we were told that condoms have frequent manufacturing issues that lead to microscopic holes and cause rashes (and were also made aware that it makes sex less enjoyable for guys). When I questioned how birth control pills were still approved by the FDA or how the condom industry still existed if there really were so many problems, they said it was because we lived in a godless country that used commercialism to tempt people into sin and the existence of birth control and condoms was a test from the devil for which god would punish us. In a public school. We weren't told about any other methods except abstinence, and were assured that none of us should ever have to use any kind of birth control method because "God will take care of your pregnancy plans". In a public school. We were also told that if we had sex with anyone but our spouse or if we had sex before marriage that we would be damned to hell. In a public school. We were showed multiple slideshows on STIs and were told that 100% of STIs occur outside married couples and that 95% of people who engaged in premarital/extramarital sex contracted STIs. It's horrifying that not only is such misinformation allowed, but it was actually encouraged by the school district, and this sort of thing still happens regularly all over the country.
If I read your statement without knowing that happened in reality it's hilarious to read the absurdity in it, when it hit me that that actually happened to someone (you and many others)... it's just unbelievable!. I really dont believe it, they are ruining those kid's lifes, it's so wrong. I am speechless. Hope you were able to get a better education after that.
Mariel thankfully, sex positive folks online and Sexplanations came out shortly after I got to college, so I used those resources and made good friends with the PP folks who would come to campus for various safer sex programs and such. I have since shared such resources with my sister (currently 17) so she can also get accurate information, and she's been sharing it with her friends as well. Apparently there's currently an underground exchange of accurate and sex positive education at my old high school!
Mariel, I knew at the time how ridiculous the teaching was. I had a mom who was pretty cool and progressive when it came to talking about sex stuff. I never felt like I personally lost out. Can't say the same about the community as a whole and its above-average teen pregnancy rate, but that's a whole different discussion.
I love how much learning there is to this video in its different facets: a bit of how stats work, a lot on how stats are routinely misunderstood, public health, how ill-served the public is by sex ed in what seems like most cases, the learning that Hank did, etc etc.
Present Mr. Hank 🙋
This was nice, an actual informational clip. I like John and Hank well enough. They have an onscreen presence that I find engaging. They're easy to listen to... Though they seem to talk too fast, and I have to replay the clips sometimes to catch everything.
The last few weeks, they seem to have been talking about their personal lives, and what's been going on. Whatever. That's all good. It's not what I've come to the Vlog Brothers to listen to. I enjoy listening to the information they disseminate, they seem informed and intelligent. As human beings, I'm glad they're getting on well in life. They're not my friends, and I don't need to know what's happening in their personal lives.
All of my sex-ed was done through the internet, and i'm honestly kinda glad about that. I got the truth (even if i had to get it myself at a much older age) The sex-ed in our country REALLY needs improving, unfortunately, everyone and their mother has a taboo about talking about sex.
MrLotrfreak Is it Italy?
I am guessing Mississippi.
Washington actually.
Data analysis and interpretation is so important! That's why I love this video so much. Because data does never perfectly represent reality. And for each set of data there a factors that can falsify the result or can lead to misconclusions.
My favorite example for this are autism statistics. Yes, the number of people diagnosed with autism increased in the last decade but that doesn't mean that more people "got" autism all of a sudden but only that the more people actually got a diagnosis than before, and that can have various reasons like the means of diagnosing it got better or parents/teachers/etc. recognize the characteristics more often because there is more awareness now than there was before.
I get the wibblies hearing Hank talk about math.
Thanks for going into this, it is sad how little people are taught about something that almost everyone comes into contact with at some point.
My immediate reactions was something along the lines of "ew dad no" which probably says bad things about my relationship with TH-cam because Hank is NOT MY FATHER
lafayette the baguette and your family life
Sure... just like Capt. Holt isn’t Jake’s father.
(Wink wink)
Surprisingly informative. This is one of those videos that I think would actually benefit from a more clickbaity title like "The condom failure rate doesn't mean what you think it does."
"You may not be an average person, nobody really is"
Whenever I think about that, I'm always reminded of the quote "According to statistics, the average person has one testicle and one breast".
Hey Hank, I rarely comment but I'm about 15 years past the time when I needed this info but BOY DID I NEED IT and the students I teach now need this! I don't teach this subject and therefore cannot approach this with them. Please continue with this kind of content to make this less confusing. Thank you :)
I always mistook the "2%" statistic to be "2% per sexual encounter" thing too, but I never thought too deeply about it. I just took it in the much more optimistic "there's a 98% chance I won't get pregnant using them" way. It seemed a lot more reasonable from that angle.
This is a fantastic video, and I'm going to use it the next time I teach statistics, particularly because it's a great reminder that probability is not the most important part of statistics. The most important part of statistics is a clear statement of what was measured and how. Once you understand where the numbers come from, it becomes much easier to reason about the random variations behind them.
Without sexplanations I wouldn't have had a sexual education at all so thanks guys 👏👏👏
Omg finally someone else explains perfect use vs typical use! I've been trying to communicate this for a while, and every time my friends are shocked.
I have a 0% chance. I'm lonely.
You, my friend, are one of the greatest people who ever lived in my book. I mean it, thank you for all you've done for education
At my high school, when it was time to teach sex ed, the teacher would be "sick" those two days every single year. So every single kid learned it from a ninety year old substitute teacher.
Now I'm imagining Jasper from the Simpsons saying "unprotected sex? That's a paddling." Thank you, with sarcasm.
That would be me except in my school sex ed tends to last 2+ weeks
This video was super informative and helpful! You spoke so naturally about it that it didn't feel weird at all. These 4 minutes were super helpful, but I would love to see you guys make an extended sex ed video. It's a sad world when I can trust youtubers to properly inform me better than my own school district.
Sex ed and evolution are things you can't learn effectively in school
That stat also boggled my brain in high school, thanks for sharing this! (Also I'm kind of genuinely surprised there wasn't a Sexplainations plug? Totally seems like a natural place for it.)
Babies All the Way Down?
DFTBA!
An abundance of babies
Looking for the condom
THIS IS IMPORTANT and these numbers make so much more sense now.
The only sex ed I've gotten through school that was actually useful and informative was in my AP Psych class. Our teacher squeezed in a unit on sex, and after giving her own presentation, she had us get into groups and design our own versions of our ideal sex ed curriculum, researching what we wish we'd been taught about. So many people, teens especially, feel like they have to walk on eggshells when it comes to these topics, and a lot of the information that circulates both online and IRL is either oversimplified or totally false. I so appreciate her for creating the space to have an open and honest discussion facilitated by an educated adult, and I wish everyone could have that.
Well... I have a 0% chance of getting pregnant right now as I am due to have a baby in October :D
So there.
Jessica Komarow Well *technically* you can still get pregnant while pregnant but it's rare
Jessica Komarow congrats
Congrats jeas
Hey Hank! Thank you so much for this video. I hope it helps end some people's misunderstandings and misconceptions, and I too am glad that there are many more resources on the internet that do so as well. I truly wish there was a way to change/improve the way schools teach kids sex ed in America so that people who don't see videos like these are still fully informed about sex.
Me and my now-ex used condoms every single time correctly and (every single time) I checked them with water shortly after to see if there was any leakage, and I never came inside her with the condom. Never once had a pregnancy scare, although she was late by about 5 days once, and with my anxiety, I starting having internal worry..In fact, the 2nd time she was "late" she didn't tell me knowing I'd freak out. Conversely, her sister and her BF didnt use it every time (it was a "well..we try to, but if we don't find one, we just do it anyway) and got pregnant. Majority of the time unwanted pregnancy is a result from bareback sex.
I bet this video is going to change the course of many lives. It's crazy to think about.
As someone not from the US, what? Why the basketball coach and not the biology teacher?
I DON'T KNOW! IT WAS WEIRD!
Bart Stikkers my sex ed teacher was a history teacher hahah classic school systems
Because in the US (in most schools) you take one quarter of the year to do sex ed rather than physical education and you often get your PE teacher as your sex ed teacher.
American schools are more likely to have a basketball coach.
mine was a bio teacher. So idk wat u guys r saying
Yay knowledge. Thanks for continuing to make empirical presentations of misunderstood phenomena, Hank!
So THAT just ruined the later Friends seasons for me 🙄
I respect that you're educating yourself on this, so that we learn new things too
I never had sex ed. I went to a private school. So yeah the internet is wonderful place to learn stuff no one teaches you.
Silas Mayes I go to a christian school and had a "sexual purity" class.
Maddie sounds about right
I go to a Christian school and we had a normal sex Ed class
A wonderful place....
#10 on trending!!!! So glad this channel is getting the attention it deserves I love you guys
I can't believe sexplinations wasn't mentioned in this video, its a great source for curious people who are interested in sex.
I was kinda surprised too! Especially since Hank-- or Complexly, properly speaking-- was the one who initially thought of Sexplanations and asked Lindsey if she'd like to do the show.
They're not intended for the same audience
This is yet another video that this channel has made that should be in all classrooms immediately.
I actually was the result of a broken condom...lol😂
Hank, this is a super important video because I've asked a lot of these same questions about the 2% number. It always bothered me and I think people see it and underestimate the effectiveness of condoms as a personal choice for birth control method. If you know you can and will use them perfectly, that number still sounds pretty scary. Your breakdown helps with that, though I feel like it's still pretty hard to grasp. Like so much of probability and statistics, it's not intuitive. I think that 2% (and other, less accurate figures) are used as scare tactics by abstinence only groups. Understanding the number better helps counter that misinformation. I also always wondered what the number meant, as I've gotten to my forties with no other birth control method and no unwanted pregnancies. If it were 2% of the time, I'd be an outlier. As it is, I'm not.
Oh god. I thought they were having another baby.
Thank you for making this video Hank! This is so important and governments do a really shit job of providing average-joe friendly data. And as you hinted at on Twitter, platforms like TH-cam don't really incentivise people to make content like this. This kind of content (and that put out by Dr Doe) is so important, thank you.
I appreciate the information. But I'm still confused about one thing. What is the "perfect use" of a condom?
Chose the right size, be hard, lubrify (water based lubricant of spit) pinch before rolling down, check if it's still all the way down periodically, withdraw right after ejaculation.
I love my Nexplanon implant. Makes me feel much more safe. Obviously I still need to worry about condoms failing when it comes to diseases, but it puts my mind at ease to know I've got pretty much a 0% chance of having an unwanted pregnancy. So it enabled me with more freedom, and helped my menstrual cramps, too! Love it!
Yeah I'm still not too happy about using just condoms as birth control, but IUDs or hormones also don't sound so hot. Ughhh I just don't want babies ffs
I'm a nurse practitioner at a school based health center and get many teens wondering this stuff. Thank you for doing this video!!!!
Okay but what is the difference between typical use and perfect use? What exactly are people doing wrong?
Shane Davis Using oil based lubricant, not changing condoms if he becomes flacid then hard again, not using enough lube, not pinching the top of the condom when putting it on, using the wrong size, not checking to see if it slipped off
It's a long list, but the most common things done wrong are not using them every time and not withdrawing promptly after ejaculation.
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I think you can include: Not using it from the start, thinking that IT IS save before you come.
Shane Davis also people sometimes use two condoms, which makes it even more prone to break!
People are stressed out and uneducated about condoms. Follow the instructions by the letter, even if it kills the mood.
Tbh, I don't know of any study that can verify the most prevalent mistakes, most experience is anectodal and restrospective.
Thank you for bringing light to this issue
Hank, no plug for the sexplanations channel? Ugh #staycurious
*plugs sexplanations*
*shows a clip of the "workout montage"*
Video was loaded 6 seconds ago lol. The earliest I have ever seen a vid uploaded
on condom failure........
I believe Jake and Logan Paul are prime examples
Thanks Hank! This was a great video and I can honestly say that I had no idea what any of the statics meant either.
Hank, rename this video for a wider TH-cam outreach. It doesn't give a complete idea of what the video is actually about.
Unexpected topic, but very glad you did this! Thanks, Hank!
I see that 3blue1brown shirt! :D
Thank you for posting people need to know this stuff.
I thought that after you turn 100, you can still get pregnant, but you end up having a shadow-demon murder-baby. Now that I think about it though, I probably shouldn't have gotten most of my sex-ed from Game of Thrones.
You only get shadow demon murder babies if youre 100 years old AND a witch that is a servant of the Lord of Light. ^^
Thank you so much for making this video! I've been misinformed about this my whole life! Thank you Hank!
A video called "On Condom Failure" and you put your face on the thumbnail? No the best combination, that's all that I'm saying...
Ross needed this video - also I wish schools would use your videos more often to teach stuff.
Correctly using a condom... for an entire year...
YOU USE ONE CONDOM?!?!?! ONE?!?!?
YOU PEOPLE DISGUST ME
When I have the opportunity to use just one, I consider it an above average year. :)
When doing sex ed classes to grade 10+es:
after doing a condom demo, we like to ask the question aloud to the class.
"So when we are done with this condom, do we just run it under the tap and save it for next time?"
Out of all Hank's videos this is the one that gets on the trending page.
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Thanks for clearing this up! I always found it to be really confusing as I'm sure most people do. On a similar note, thanks for helping make Sexplanations a thing. I have learned so much from that channel.