It is related to decreased effectiveness of safer sex messages because people who realize the necessity of condoms still perpetuate the phenomenon.
[1] It is typically expressed as a frustration with the idea of a future filled with less sexual pleasure due to the use of condoms.
Condom fatigue is especially prevalent in long-term couples[3] who may believe that since they know their partner well they no longer need to worry about AIDS.
[2] This fatigue can be exacerbated by the desire to feel closer to one's partner during sex.
[8][9][10] Experts attribute this to "AIDS fatigue" among younger people who have no memory of the worst phase of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as "condom fatigue" among those who have grown tired of and disillusioned with the unrelenting safer sex message.