We probably are about the same age. I'm 36. No secret about it. Born at the end of 1970, came of age sexually during the beginning of the AIDS crisis. "And the Band Played On" was probably my favorite book during my first year of college. Safer sex workshops were cool and fun and relatively easy to find. I attended at least two college-approved safer sex events. One was a sex toy "show and tell". I lived in a city with a great feminist sex toy shop where I could attend workshops and demonstrations, all of which eroticized safer sex. Completely different experience from that of a friend of mine, about 20 years ahead of me, who was telling me that when she was developing her sexuality condoms were a sign of distrust and that she never did learn to like them. She probably had the same visceral sense of "ickyness" the first time she used one that I had the first time I didn't!

As for gloves, well, they're even better. The smoothness of latex is an amazing thing! 

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth