New Yorkers just aren’t up for condoms.
Only one in three adults in the city used a condom the last time they had sex — or just 31.8 percent of the more than 4 million sexually active New Yorkers, a city Health Department poll has found.
By comparison, two-thirds, or 68.2 percent, of adults said they didn’t use a condom the last time they were in the sack, the 2012 Community Health survey says.
It’s the same rate of usage as when Mayor Bloomberg took office in 2003, despite the city spending millions of dollars buying, marketing and distributing free condoms to promote safe sex.
The Bloomberg administration launched campaigns that included branding its own NYC Condom and using slogans such as “New York We’ve Got You Covered.”
Meanwhile, the poll found a lot of love machines out there.
Some 771,000 New Yorkers had two or more sexual partners last year, it found. Of those, 457,000 boasted having three or more partners, an increase of 47,000 from 2011 and 62,000 from 2003.
Neighborhoods with the highest percentage of adults claiming three or more sex partners were East Harlem (20 percent), Northeast Bronx and Washington Heights (14 each) and Flushing, Northern Staten Island and Greenwich Village/Chelsea (12 each).
The least promiscuous areas — or those with fewer than 3 percent of adults claiming three or more partners — were The Bronx’s Pelham Bay/Throggs Neck and Queens’ Bayside/Little Neck/Fresh Meadows. These areas are known as bedroom communities of married couples with kids.
Although a huge percentage of New Yorkers are doing it without condoms, the rate of adults age 18 to 24 using them has increased 4 points to 63 percent since 2009.
Seventy-eight percent of adults ages 45 to 64 and 89 percent of senior citizens do not use condoms.
City health officials down-played the overall flaccid condom usage, instead emphasizing data showing those at risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases — such as young singles and gay men — are practicing safe sex.
In that respect, they say, the condom program is working.
“Condoms cost the Health Department less than $1 each, but the lifetime cost of treatment of HIV infection is $360,000,” the department said.
“Condom use has been increasing in people at risk for HIV: from 49.4 percent in 2003 to 58.3 in 2012 among never-married persons,” it said. “In specialized surveys done of high-risk men who have sex with men in 2012, 79 percent of those surveyed in person and 57 percent of those surveyed online used a condom at last sex.”