Contraception or birth control: whichever you call it, here's a whole lot of information on when we may need or want to prevent pregnancy, and the array of current methods and practices available to do it with and how to use them effectively.
Birth Control
- Emily Wilson
IUDs are a good thing. But I don’t want to be dishonest about the very real pain that I and others had to endure in the process of gaining access to this method of birth control.
- Orion Ray
As a teenager who has encountered plenty of teenagers who are confused, scared, or otherwise troubled over pregnancy I couldn't be happier about over the counter access to birth control pills.
- Sarah Kiser MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
How an IUD is placed, at which points during the procedure people can experience pain, and pain management options that can be used during this procedure.
- Zoe Mendelson
- María Conejo
What's up with so many people experiencing what sure seem like side effects of hormonal birth control methods, but so few studies seeming to find or report those same effects? This excerpt from the book version of Pussypedia breaks it down and backs it up with a giant pile of research.
- Paige Alexandria
If you're a young person, you may not know it, but you can probably access methods of birth control without your parent's permission, and even for free! Here's a starter guide for those in the United States, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and India.
- Al Washburn
A guide to accessing hormonal contraception (regular and emergency) via online mail-order pharmacies and other helps when access in the United States is looking grim.
- Amanda Seely
Worried a medication might interact/interfere with your hormonal contraceptive, or vice versa? Here's a rundown of the most common culprits in birth control interference.
- Heather Corinna
One of the most common condom whoopsies we hear about from our users involves themselves or a partner going to put a condom on, then discovering they've put it on the wrong way. Often, after doing that, they'll also report following that up with a second common oops, which is just flipping that same condom over and then putting it on the right way.
- Robin Mandell
In a sentence: you could just take one out of your bag, hand it to your partner, and say "Here, put this on." Or, "Let's get a condom on first." Or, if you want to keep the touch between the two of you going without a condom-stop, how about, "Why don't I slide this on for you." Remember, you can put...