Reproduction

Well, panic doesn’t really do anybody any good, so I’d advise not spending your time in a panic period. However, based on what you described you do have both a pregnancy risk and an STI risk. Withdrawal (or “pulling out”) is not really a good method of birth control. (Our own founder, Heather, is…

Understand that if a person with a penis is aroused and/or erect, then there is likely some pre-ejaculate at some point. If his penis is visible, you will likely be able to see it, but for obvious reasons, if it’s inside your vagina or your mouth, you’re not going to be able to see it, and both you…

Know what is really NOT a good way to find out if you’re able to be a Dad at 15? To wind up being a Dad at 15. You seriously do NOT want to be that guy. Heck, even if you have a partner who terminates a pregnancy you caused, that’s an awful lot to put her through for nothing. It’s very unusual for a…

Unprotected sex of any sort (even without ejaculation) has both a pregnancy risk and an STI risk. So yes, you do have a risk from this contact. Pre-ejaculate (which happens throughout the course of an erection) isn’t something that anybody is really going to feel happening and it can contain sperm…

Research on pre-ejaculate is still a bit on the slim side, but based on what the experts know and report so far, urinating before sexual activity does likely reduce or remove the risk of active sperm being in that fluid. That’s not something we can guarantee yet, but that is the general consensus at…

You’re right, unprotected sex (even without ejaculation) has both pregnancy and STI risks. Pre-ejaculate can contain sperm and it’s not really something that one is going to “feel” when it happens (especially inside the vagina). Also, it’s not always possible for men to pull out before any…

Sperm can be pretty hardy when they’re in hospitable environments, like the reproductive track of someone with a vagina. They can survive for days in there. However, in an inhospitable environment (on towels, clothing, sheets, the wall, bathtub, etc.), they don’t last very long at all. In those…

Is your period late? If it is, then by all means, take a pregnancy test, as withdrawal is one of the least effective methods of birth control in typical use. If you don’t know when to expect your period, or your periods are often irregular, then just take a test when it’s been around 14 days since…

If weeks after this risk, you had a normal period, then there really is no reason to be concerned about pregnancy. But if you’re still worried, even knowing that, the best thing to do so that you can relax is just to go to the drugstore, get a home pregnancy test and take it so that you can see that…

For a majority of people who menstruate, the time period you’re talking about, a week after your menstrual period ends, is a window of the highest fertility: in other words, the time when most people who menstruate would be at their highest pregnancy risk. Thing is, with any question like this, we…