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Does anyone know where you can get Dental Dams from in Dublin

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  • 03-01-2014 7:36pm
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    ewan whose army
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭


    I would like to buy a couple but boots etc. just have condoms and lube.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,053 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Have you tried Condom Power on Dame Street?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    PopRocks
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭PopRocks


    Belongto run a group for girls who like girls and they gave me a big box of dental dams free :)


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    PopRocks
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭PopRocks


    Also, if you buy condoms (Flavored if you like) and cut the top and bottom bits off and then cut through it, you're left with a sheet of latex that can be used as a dental dam :)


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    Rick_
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    Being the totally innocent and naive creature that I am, I was wondering what a dental dam is and why they are needed? I've never heard of one, and with a name like Dental Dam, it sounds like something a dentist would use, or a really weird superhero.

    I'm in work so can't risk a Google search to find out myself in case something NSFW pops up.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,053 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Paddy C wrote: »
    Being the totally innocent and naive creature that I am, I was wondering what a dental dam is and why they are needed? I've never heard of one, and with a name like Dental Dam, it sounds like something a dentist would use, or a really weird superhero.

    I'm in work so can't risk a Google search to find out myself in case something NSFW pops up.
    It's like a condom except you use it for oral or anal sex - usually lesbians would you use it over the vagina

    Its just a small square sheet of latex.

    This description explains

    a thin sheet of latex used by dentists to isolate a tooth being worked on, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Ambersky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Ambersky


    Dental dams are not for sale in the way comdoms are and can be difficult to find. I dont know anyone who has used them for anything other than an experiment or a bit of fun with a partner they have already been having sex with, minus the dental dams. That's not to say there are no situations where dental dams are appropriate.
    I have asked all my lesbian friends if they carry and use dental dams for those occasions when they have sex with someone for the first time. Nobody told me that they do and no one I knew said they had met anyone else who used a dam with them first time having sex. Thats just the women I know so it may not be the full story but the market for dental dams has not developed nearly as widely as condoms, you dont see them on the shelves, you have to go to specialist shops or look for them online to get them so it would have to make you wonder why they seem so unavailable. Is it that there simply is no real market for them because there usually is no need for them. Lesbians arent the only ones having oral sex with women so why arent heterosexual men carrying dental dams as well as condoms if dental dams are so necessary?
    I know various lesbian organisations are at pains to point out that lesbian sex can carry a risk of getting HIV and yet worldwide there have only been one or two cases in the last 30 years of woman to woman sexual transmission of HIV .
    No one seems to like to admit the lack of statistics for woman to woman transmission one way or another. Some safer sex publications will spend quite a bit of time explaining the risks of contacting HIV in lesbian sex saying that some lesbians have sex with men, use needles etc in order to demonstrate risk but dont talk about the actual shortage of cases of woman to woman transmission . Some people claim there is a conspiracy to under report womens health issues which I have some sympathy for but surely by now we would know of more cases of woman to woman transmission even in our own lives or from women we know abroad. Yet all the medical papers seem to be able to report are one or two cases where a woman may have contacted HIV from sex with another woman and not by also sharing needles with her. Is it that some womens groups want to be equal to men in all things that they also want to be equal in this way too a kind of equality of oppression or suffering by insisting that condom and dental dam distribution is equally necessary.
    Whats wrong with admitting lesbian sex is usually and for those of us who would rather not draw our partners blood, a low risk sexual activity.
    You can also reduce the risk of contacting other forms of STIs by avoiding certain practices without having to use dental dams.

    The way I now think of it is everything carries a risk, eating some foods can be risky, crossing the road can be risky, living in certain areas is risky, smoking and drinking is definitely risky, we take note of risks and choose which ones to take and which ones we have the power or choice, to avoid or reduce.
    Some of the things we do to avoid risk carries a price in itself so we also have to decide whether the inconvenience, discomfort, clumsiness, agitation and restraint needed to avoid that risk is worth it on every occasion no matter how low the risk. I hear the talk about safer sex for lesbians and I see packets with dental dams given out occasionally but does anyone actually use them regularly and more importantly are they used on the first time they have sex with someone because its all very well whipping out the dental dam for the laugh but that's not what its suppose to be for.

    I dont really know what is happening among younger lesbian women has there been a change in practices and attitudes in recent years? I wonder whats really happening in practice rather than what information safer sex representatives put out. Im sceptical about dental dams probably because I think they were introduced during the 80s when public awareness campaigns were based on scare tactics about AIDS and that hasnt proven useful to lesbians, to my mind anyway. Maybe for other reasons they are useful. I wonder are dental dams being used and are they proving useful in preventing the spread of STDs during woman to woman sex.

    Just did a quick Google on uses of dental dams during lesbian sex and mostly people saying they have heard the talk but no one uses them.
    http://ask.metafilter.com/147686/Who-ACTUALLY-uses-dental-dams
    Then I came across this
    Dental Dams - Can We All Finally Admit That Using Them Is A Myth?
    ..............
    ...The only thing I can see happening by society pretending that more than 1 percent of people who give head to women use dental dams is to make young lesbians super paranoid after their first sexual experiences. (In fact, part of me wonders if the myth of dental dams is perpetuated by the patriarchy to make lesbian sex seem scary to younger women.)

    Don't get me wrong. I'm all for safer sex - but no sex is 100 percent safe and honest discussions about what people really do in the bedroom seem a lot more constructive to me than fostering some mythos about women covering their clits in latex before they get eaten out.
    http://crosstalk.kinja.com/dental-dams-can-we-all-finally-admit-that-using-them-1444514195


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    suicide_circus
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    None of the girls I know have ever used them or even heard of anyone using them. I had to explain to one of them what a dental dam was!


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    baby and crumble
    Registered Users Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    Cling film can be used in a pinch. But don't pinch it or it'll break! (Har Har Har!!)

    In all seriousness, they are important if you want to go down on a girl if you have a cold sore, etc. I think of dams as more useful for that kind of stuff and if you want to avoid getting sick etc after a bit of rimming. In general usage across most age groups of women I honestly don't think they're used for general safe sex purposes. I mean you could probably catch more stuff from fingering if you had a cut that's not healed or from tribbing.


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