A young couple in northern Vietnam was recently admitted to a hospital with scratched and bleeding genitalia after having sex wearing a plastic bag in place of a condom.

The two undergraduates, a boy and a girl, were taken to the Hanoi Nephrology Hospital with badly injured private parts, said Nguyen The Luong, the infirmary’s deputy director.

According to the patients, the two had used a plastic bag as protection when having their first sexual intercourse, after feeling too shy to buy a real condom.

As the plastic bag was rough and lacked elasticity and lubrication, the young couple ended up scratching their genitals to the point of bleeding.

The lovebirds underwent a thorough check-up and were prescribed with antibiotics and disinfectants for their injuries.

According to doctors, the use of plastic bags or similar household products as alternatives to condoms is strongly discouraged since such items are not designed for the function.

Thick plastic bags can scratch or even tear private parts, while thinner ones are just as damaging and are prone to break much more easily than condoms.

A recent study conducted on over 2,700 undergraduates in Hanoi by Hanoi Medical University and Hanoi Medical College found that 16 percent of those surveyed claimed to have had sexual intercourse by the time of the interview.

However, only a third of these respondents said they had used a condom during their first sexual experience, while a fourth of them admitted that they found buying condoms embarrassing.

The staggering numbers may be attributed to a lack of sex and contraceptive education, a topic still considered sensitive and avoided by many parents and teachers despite it having long been a compulsory part of school curricula in Vietnam. 

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