Influencer and podcast host Hallie Batchelder has ignited on-line discourse about secure intercourse practices — or the dearth thereof.
In a clip uploaded to Instagram on Friday, October 24, to advertise the most recent episode of Batchelder's “Additional Soiled” podcast, she shares her opinions on what she dubs the “condom epidemic.”
“I had an enormous drought over the summer season, after which I, like, reentered a ho period,” Batchelder, 28, mentioned. “However the final two guys I f***ed, like, previously month, have instructed utilizing condoms and I'm, like, type of being offended by the condom epidemic. I don't know the way I really feel about it. I don't … I'm allergic.”
“I don't like them,” Lindsey Fishman, who was the visitor on that episode, mentioned.
“I do know. Who likes them?” Batchelder requested.
Batchelder then listed three the explanation why she doesn't help using them.
“One, it kills the temper,” Batchelder mentioned. “Two, I don't need to have your f***ing bizarre offspring child. Like, I've a stronger IUD than, like, Zeus. Being pregnant just isn't on the desk. I don't need to have a toddler with you. Or like three, are you calling me a whore and are you attempting to guard your self from STDs I may need?”
“Do you ever ask them? Like, why are you doing this,” Fishman, 26, adopted up.
“This occurred to me like a pair weeks in the past and I used to be like, ‘Take a look at you searching for a condom and like the way it's ruining the temper. And in addition like why do you want one,'” Batchelder mentioned. “He simply thought it was training accountable intercourse and bounds with him. And I used to be like, ‘Blah blah blah blah blah.'”
“Did you inform him to develop up?” Fishman later requested.
“I received the ick, and I haven't talked to him since,” Batchelder mentioned.
Within the remark part of the put up, Instagram customers responded with questions resembling “Does your IUD additionally defend you in opposition to HIV and AIDS?” and basic ideas like, “Try to be encouraging condoms in your viewers, HPV can result in cervical most cancers.”
The controversy has additionally made its approach over to TikTok the place many customers added their ideas about Batchelder's feedback and the significance of secure intercourse practices, with even fellow influencers like Clarke Peoples weighing in.
“Telling folks that ‘utilizing condoms kills the temper' or that you simply really feel like a slut if somebody tells you, ‘Yeah, nicely, I need to use a condom to guard myself,' is without doubt one of the craziest issues I've really ever heard,” Peoples, 24, mentioned.
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“To suppose there are grown adults roaming the streets pondering that it's offensive for somebody to need to defend themselves and also you from contracting an STD or getting pregnant blows my thoughts. There is no such thing as a man, no lady, no one-night stand, no baecation, no Chanel bag, no sum of money that's price risking your life, your livelihood or your well being for to have interaction in unprotected intercourse,” Peoples continued.
Batchelder made a response video to the backlash on Saturday, October 25, through which she seemingly doubled down on her unique assertion to her 654,000-plus TikTok followers.
“Emergency press convention, guys, I'm not within the f***ing temper in the present day for this bulls***,” Batchelder begins the video.
Batchelder goes on to say that she noticed a video of a “stunning younger lady” posted “attempting to cancel me for having a ‘controversial opinion about intercourse.'”
“I mentioned I don't f*** with condoms, they usually spoil the vibe. And if that's what you need to cancel me for, OK, cancel me and my profession. I don't know what you need me to say. I'm not altering my thoughts on that one. If I texted a bunch chat with 100 bitches and I mentioned, ‘Hey guys, when was the final time you used a condom?' I can assure most of them would say highschool,” she continues.
Batchelder mentioned that out of the “out of pocket” issues she's mentioned previously, she's shocked that this has blown up this a lot.
“I'm not saying apply unsafe intercourse, I've an IUD that's stronger than Zeus and Thor mixed. I used to be a classics main. Let's be so fucking for actual proper now, that's some dumbass s***,” Batchelder mentioned. “Anyhow, I'm going to take a nap. I really like you guys and I'm formally apologizing for saying that, I suppose,” Batchelder ends the video.
Batchelder's “Additional Soiled” podcast launched on December 5, 2024, and is below “Name Her Daddy's” Alex Cooper's “Unwell” manufacturing firm.
