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So your fantasy couple is finally going to consummate their relationship! Hooray for them!
If the decision to have sex is a conscious, in-advance one, rather than a spur-of-the-moment twist near the end of an
The acquiring of said birth control is where this trope comes into play. For some reason, buying condoms or getting on the pill is made a torturous experience that explains why most sex on TV is hasty, unplanned and thoughtless. The pharmacist will give a character a hard time about buying his condoms, or an unrealistically insensitive clinic worker will make going on the pill the most embarrassing thing possible. Even worse is if a parent or parent figure finds out, and instead of berating the character, supports their responsibility... often with humiliating advice and anecdotes. In comedies, this will be milked for all its worth.
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Of course, being able to get condoms doesn't necessarily mean they [[But We Used a Condom|will always work]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''Summer of '42'' has one of the better examples of this, justified in that the movie takes place in [[The Forties]] and the guy trying to obtain the rubbers is 15 years old.
* The teen sex comedy ''Trojan War'' has a plot driven entirely by this trope.
* The teen sex comedy ''School Spirit'' begins with the central character running a
* A hilarious sequence in the film ''[[The Hairy Bird|All I Wanna Do]]'' involves the characters physically grappling with a can of contraceptive foam.
* A sequence in ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'' features a youth trying to buy a package of condoms. After hitting some of the usual aspects of this trope (embarrassment because the pharmacist is a family friend, etc.), the trope is spoofed when the youth is surprised by the president of the condom company coming out of hiding and informing him that he is the condom company's one millionth customer. This "wins" him the privilege of being the condom company's public mascot for a year, at the cost of entirely spoiling his planned evening of passion.
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== Jokes ==
* Inverted in an old joke: a man with a tic that causes him to keep winking goes to a job interview. At one point, he reaches into his pocket for some aspirin, but a huge pile of condoms spills out. "It's [[Not What It Looks Like]]!" he says. "Have you ever tried asking a pharmacist for aspirin while winking?"
* Inverted in a joke from the 1980s when smoking was becoming unfashionable: A man walks up to the pharmacist's counter and says "I'd like a box of condoms," then adds in a whisper, "and a pack of cigarettes."
== [[Literature]] ==
* The Tom Sharpe novel ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]'' features a particularly elaborate
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* For an unfunny example, in the pilot of ''[[Mad Men]]'', the gynecologist prescribing Peggy her birth control pills thoughtlessly humiliated her throughout her exam.
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Monica and Rachel once had a long, hilarious scene fighting over the last condom in the bathroom while Ross and Richard awkwardly waited together outside for the two to come to an agreement.
* In the ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' episode "The Best Laid Plans", Wheels runs the
* On ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', the girls attempt to discreetly buy condoms, to be subjected to a loud price check everyone in the store hears.
** Fortunately, the embarassment leads to a crowning speech of awesome.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[
* Subverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811143708/http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=956 this] ''[[Red String]]'' page and the following one. Serves as something of a one-time [[Unusual Euphemism]], as well.
* Explored creatively in [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1368#comic this] ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]''.
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* There have been a few well-publicized incidents of pharmacists refusing to dispense contraceptives on religious or moral grounds, with [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html an attendant controversy] over the rights of the pharmacist versus those of the customer.
* Back in [[The Fifties]], this was [[Truth in Television]]. Condoms were sold as a ''behind the counter'' item; you had to actually go up to the pharmacy counter and ask for them. (Not like today, where you just grab the kind you want off the shelf and go pay for them.) (And heaven help [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|a woman who attempted to buy them]], even if she was married.)
** Still [[Truth in Television]] at times; condoms tend to [[Five-Finger Discount|grow legs]]
** Go back even further and it was illegal for the pharmacist to sell them to unmarried people. So you would have to prove you were married.
* [[Tech Marches On]] and more or less renders this trope irrelevant: nowadays, every large pharmacist has an online store.
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