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according to the cdc the youngest demographic remains the best about that. and to whatever extent "Well she is (or I am) on hormonal birth control" exists, it's significantly different from how men used to make up lies to avoid using them
Good to see that usage is good, although I think we’d need to see some data of young people from 20-30 years ago to get a full comparison. Also, the older generations are most likely reporting lower condoms use because they’re more likely to be in long term, monogamous relationships than the younger ones, thus more concerned with the reproductive control aspect than the disease control aspect. So they’re more likely to be using hormonal or surgical birth control. If you look at the breakdown by relationship type, it show long term relationships have way, way lower condom usage rates than hookups or casual relationships.
the earliest data i can find is from the late 80s, with expectedly slightly lower 52%. then we're into the reeds. there's claims condom use was down from some high point before the pill was introduced but i cannot verify this. but idk there's just a very strong pattern with more recent generations tending to increase use, and a reverse of this trend has not yet borne out.
conservative politicians are always hard at work getting that number down though, i think 2020+ might present interesting data but i don't think anyone has that published yet