As A PSA Can I point out Prevention Again?

[BobCox2]

As A PSA Can I point out Prevention Again?

Oops - Tiger Attack
Down Hobbes!

Lets take a subtopic.

How hard Do Most Guys Think Girls think about this?
Whats the success rate of Birth control measures and how many are used?

I'm changing the subject.

I guess My Opinion is we correct fallacy's on that subject.

But this ones for the Ladies.

:girly:

 

[TheOgreMan]

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I know my ex-girlfriend thought about birth control a lot. She was on birth control but still insisted on using a condom 90% of the time; only occasionally did we go without.

But she also was on top, mostly, and we all know women can't get pregnant if they are on top. It's gravity.

 

[SaroDarksbane]

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The birth control pill is extremely effective if taken regularly. The chance of a woman on the pill getting pregnant over the course of an entire year (if she's taking it as intended) is like 1 in 2000.

In an unrelated topic, what happened to you, BobCox? Your posts are becoming nigh unintelligible . . .

 

[TheOgreMan]

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Yeah, it's like 95-98% effective or something along those lines. It didn't bother me much so I never complained; only requests like on holidays, and such. :badteeth:

 

[Johnny]

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Birth control pills are very effective but if you take an anti biotic it removes the birth control pills effect.

That's why you often see those redneck women on TV who got knocked up while on the pill then they say something stupid like "I'm just that fertile!" or "Maybe god just wants me to have this kid!"

Meanwhile I found this very interesting.

Other side effects associated with low-dose COCPs are leukorrhea (increased vaginal secretions), reductions in menstrual flow, mastalgia (breast tenderness), increase in breast size, and decrease in acneThe use of oral contraceptives (birth control pills) for five years or more decreases the risk of ovarian cancer in later life by 50%.[81]
Combined oral contraceptive use reduces the risk of ovarian cancer by 40% and the risk of endometrial cancer by 50% compared to never users. The risk reduction increases with duration of use, with an 80% reduction in risk for both ovarian and endometrial cancer with use for more than 10 years. The risk reduction for both ovarian and endometrial cancer persists for at least 20 years.[19]
Taking oral contraceptives also reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, and improves conditions such as pelvic inflammatory disease, dysmenorrhea, premenstrual syndrome, and acne.

They should put that stuff in the tap water.

For the health benefits of course....

 

[stillman]

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^But oral contraceptives are mostly synthetic estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen has been shown to increase the risk of developing breast cancer, so a woman is trading one form of cancer for another. And breast cancer is far more common, is it not? Well, the research keeps fluctuating on this estrogen debate I hear, so moving on...

You just can't get away with eating synthetic hormones every day for years at a time.

In fact, as a woman gets older, the combination of oral contraceptives and smoking leads to higher risk of death. I saw a graph and it was just ridiculous. As the woman gets' into her late 30's and 40's, the graph looks like the paper it's on is not tall enough to contain the graphic that shows liklihood of dying. Of course, we all know smoking is dangerous anyway, and the chances of a woman needing birth control as she gets older, passing menopause, are reduced. But the graph basically showed that oral contraceptives are not these harmless wonders afterall. If you were to just smoke without the birth control you would live until you get COPD or cancer after years of abuse. But if you smoke and use the pill, you're DEAD after a certain age.

Basically, what I'm adding to this as my main point is that women sometimes are using oral contraceptives because of the estrogen priming effects. That is, estrogen affects many tissues. IIRC, some of the effects actually make the woman look more appealing. Do you suppose women would notice these changes and keep taking the oral contraceptives even when they are not dating or anything? You bet! They can and they do.

 

[BobCox2]

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The birth control pill is extremely effective if taken regularly. The chance of a woman on the pill getting pregnant over the course of an entire year (if she's taking it as intended) is like 1 in 2000.

In an unrelated topic, what happened to you, BobCox? Your posts are becoming nigh unintelligible . . .

I tHiNk You Have tHat baKWards.
The Personal comment not the General one.

 

[Dirty_Zulu]

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95% effective is like saying 1 in 20 chance. So if you do it 20 times, 1 of them is going the full 9 yards.

Odd to see sex discussion on an RPG forums. You'd think people here get laid lot less than some pop culture forums.

 

[Nazdakka]

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95% effective is like saying 1 in 20 chance. So if you do it 20 times, 1 of them is going the full 9 yards.

Odd to see sex discussion on an RPG forums. You'd think people here get laid lot less than some pop culture forums.

I think that you're misinterpreting that statistic. According to this, the odds of conceiving from unprotected sex during the most fertile few days of a woman's cycle is only around 1 in 3, so 1 baby/20 sexual encounters at any point in the cycle AND while using a condom seems wrong.

What I believe that statistic means is that, if a woman has regular sex over the course of a year with only condoms as contraceptive, she has a 1/20 (5%) chance of getting pregnant.

 

[SaroDarksbane]

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What I believe that statistic means is that, if a woman has regular sex over the course of a year with only condoms as contraceptive, she has a 1/20 (5%) chance of getting pregnant.

That's pretty close for condoms, but the stat mentioned was for the pill, which is much lower (~0.3%).

 

[Nazdakka]

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Ah, oops

Yeah, the pill is miles better than condoms.

 

[Dirty_Zulu]

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What I believe that statistic means is that, if a woman has regular sex over the course of a year with only condoms as contraceptive, she has a 1/20 (5%) chance of getting pregnant.

I heard that if you're monogamous, you can do it like 3 times a day and the chances are the same as you do it once every 3 days.

Supposedly, it takes time for the guy to rebuilt his little army.

 

[SaroDarksbane]

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I heard that if you're monogamous, you can do it like 3 times a day and the chances are the same as you do it once every 3 days.

Supposedly, it takes time for the guy to rebuilt his little army.

Well, that and the fact that if it isn't the right time, then no amount of "doing it" will end in tragedy . . . err . . . a "blessing".

 

[Dondrei]

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Kind of irrelevant, you're stuck with condoms no matter what. Because you can't abort AIDs.

Anyway, the only 100% effective contraception is marriage.

 

[stillman]

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On an episode of Nip Tuck, one of the doctors said you can just take a bath and the heat will render the sperm useless. I have no idea if that's true or not...

 

[Dirty_Zulu]

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On an episode of Nip Tuck, one of the doctors said you can just take a bath and the heat will render the sperm useless. I have no idea if that's true or not...

I don't know about that but I know that if a guy sits in a jacuzzi for a while, his awaiting army would be killed. If he have sex soon after, he'll be shooting blanks. The factory is very sensitive to heat that's why it expands and contracts.

 

[Dondrei]

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Maybe you don't want to take your contraceptive advice from playground lore.

 

[BobCox2]

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and tv show or a PSA thread in the off-Topic forum