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Would you and your racially diverse group of friends like to regulate your reproductive systems at the same time you consume healthy, low-fat, probiotic yogurt? Look no further than Birth Control On The Bottom, the yogurt that is also a pill. More
We know teenagers will have sex. We know this. We can’t afford to be naive enough to believe that blissful ignorance channeled by way of abstinence-only education will be totally effective. But, naturally, people are upset about this announcement. More
The awesome parodies of conservative idiocy just keep coming! (Warning: contains cartoonish depiction of rape.) More
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Were you one of those kids who had an uncomfortable conversation with your mother about getting birth control in high school? Kim Kardashian was one of those kids! More
I’m going to say something, and for some people, it might be hard to read. But here it goes: I use birth control because I want to have non-procreative sex.
I know. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that surely, I must have mis-typed. That I must want birth control not to control birth, but for my acne. Or for my ovarian cysts. Or for my menopause. Or for all of the other reasons that women have been forced to say they want birth control just to make it OK in the current, sex-negative climate. Because if you were to believe most of the rhetoric swirling around these days, you might start to think that preventing pregnancy is, in fact, a pleasant side-effect of hormonal IUDs, pills, patches, and rings. That the millions of women who use some form of hormonal contraceptive every day are doing it for some reason other than preventing pregnancy. More
Well ladies, a few lawmakers in Arizona have decided that it’s a nice day to take your health and shit all over it. More
Rush Limbaugh is rightly in trouble over some truly terrible comments he made about a woman named Sandra Fluke. Limbaugh has been pulling this kind of shit for years but, if we remember our Nietzsche, us bloggers should recognize something about monster hunting and looking into an abyss. Maybe? Editors Jennifer Wright and Ashley Cardiff don’t really remember their Nietzsche because we tossed out all our birth control and replaced it with OxyContin. Let’s do this. More
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In the following video, Funny or Die provides a pretty thorough summary on why it was absurd that a recent Congressional hearing about women’s access to birth control through their work-sponsored health insurance was in fact a conversation amongst eight men. More
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear there was a secret competition going on for which public figure can give the worst birth control advice. First, Foster Friess told us “gals” that we should just stick some aspirin between our knees; now, Adam Levine is happy to let us all know that pulling out is his favored, “foolproof” birth control method. So…when’s the baby due?
The 32-year-old Maroon 5 singer and The Voice judge visited Howard Stern with his girlfriend, Victoria’s Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna. The two discussed their relationship, and in the process he disclosed his contraceptive secret: “a foolproof birth-control system” called pulling out, according to OK Magazine. More
A new study says that alcohol consumption ups your chances of having unsafe sex…It’s not rocket science, but it could help clear up some misconceptions about the “kind” of people who forego condoms and spread HIV and other STDs. In the past, researchers have questioned whether it’s alcohol, or the personalities of the people drinking the alcohol, that make for irresponsible mating. But researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health say pretty much anyone who’s had more than four or five drinks is more likely to have unsafe sex.
In the study, researchers randomly assigned participants to a drinking or sober group, and asked them to rate their intention to have unprotected sex. The more alcohol they consumed, the greater their intention; at 0.1 mg/mL blood alcohol level, the likelihood of engaging in unsafe sex was up by 5%. More
Kathleen Sebelius (Human Services Secretary) overruled the FDA ‘s decision to allow Plan B for minors. We talked to some ladies who have used Plan B to see what their experience was like. More
You know what’s great? Avoiding unplanned pregnancies. It’s probably the best thing about being a responsible adult, besides maybe eating cake for dinner sometimes. So, in the wake of a certain internet fiasco, we decided to talk to a bunch of smart, responsible, female adults who 1) care about their health and 2) care about the health of their partners… and therefore practice safe sex.
This is not to say that people don’t make mistakes–condoms break and no form of birth control is 100% effective–but it is to say that adults who make mistakes learn from them. Otherwise, they’re not adults. So, for today’s Real Talk we asked women to tell us about their preferred methods of protection. More
