Blanket term for any of several methods used to prevent fertilization or pregnancy from resulting due to a sexual act.
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Does the Creighton Method of Natural Family Planning have a failure rate of 3.2% or less?
The Creighton Method of natural family planning claims to have a 3.2% failure rate for typical use, and a failure rate of 0.5% for perfect use. However, my primary care doctor said that Natural Family Planning in general has a low success rate.…
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Do condoms have large enough holes for HIV to pass through?
Some people say that holes in latex are large enough for the AIDS-causing HIV and chlamydia to pass through, so that condoms do not protect against these STDs. Others dispute this statement and consider condoms to be effective in blocking HIV…
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Does the oral contraceptive pill "age" a woman's cervix prematurely?
Well, I heard an interesting one tonight. My wife passed on that on a blog discussing contraceptive use, someone posted a link to a site stating that taking Ortho Tri Cyclen, an oral contraceptive, "ages" the cervix prematurely.
The implication was…
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Is RISUG a simple, effective birth control for men?
I noticed an article about birth control method for men (called RISUG) being developed in India. It's described as being something like this description of a near perfect contraceptive:
no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to…
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Is the withdrawal/pull-out method efficient if used correctly?
In Germany (and most other western countries) it is considered common knowledge, taught in sex-ed, that pre-cum contains live sperm making the Withdrawal/Pull Out Method ineffective.
Source: Bauer Media Group, 2009
I found no sufficient…
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Does freely available contraception cut the abortion rate?
A recent study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (see report here) concluded that provision of free long-acting contraception reduced the number of abortions in its recipients.
Even such an apparently simple result can be…
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Was the opposition of the Catholic Church to contraception based on the Homunculi theory?
I have heard said that the opposition of the church to any form of contraception - or any attempt to prevent conception (pulling out, oral sex, etc.) while still performing coitus - was originally based in an outdated and wrong scientific view that…
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Does taking a contraceptive pill increase your chance of getting cancer?
It is a common thing to hear among women discussing contraception, and in the press:
A 45 per cent increase in the disease was found among women who had been taking the second generation Pill for three years or more.
A ten per cent increase was…
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Have 98% of Catholic women used birth control?
An NPR article on the debate about contraceptive coverage makes the following claim:
In fact, 98 percent of Catholic women use birth control at some point in their lifetimes.
Is this claim true?
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Do condoms stored in a wallet deteriorate faster?
During adolescence, teens are often taught to not store condoms in their wallet because it causes the condom to deteriorate. In fact, the National Institute of Health claims:
Do not carry condoms in your wallet
for long periods of time. Replace…
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Does eating papaya everyday work as a contraceptive?
I saw a few hours ago a friend posted on his Facebook wall a claim that some research from the University of Sussex has shown that daily consumption of ripe papaya works as a contraceptive, and to reverse the effects all you have to do is stop…
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Can Lady Comp predict women's fertility cycles with 99.3% accuracy?
I just came across a seemingly amazing product, called Pearly or Lady Comp. This product was recently mentioned in Sweden's biggest newspaper.
According to the company, it can predict female fertility at the rate of 99.3% based on the menstruation…
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Do excreted oral contraceptive compounds in drinking water contribute to male infertility?
I've run across several claims about oral contraceptives ("the pill") and how the residuals that enter municipal water supplies via urination cannot be filtered out and may have detrimental effects on animal and human health. One particular claim is…
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Does natural family planning decrease divorce rates?
According to Dr. Janet Smith's lecture "Contraception Why Not" the Family of the Americas Foundation performed a study regarding rates of divorce and the use of Natural Family Planning techniques (as opposed to oral contraception, sterilization,…
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What is the five-year failure rate for condom-usage?
Writing for the New York Times, Gregor Aisch and Bill Marsh model long term failure rates of birth control methods by extrapolating the one-year failure rate based on a simple mathematical formula:
The probability that a woman doesn't get pregnant…
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