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Options, anyone?

This may be a post some will find offensive. it involves birth control. If you plan on becoming offended, please skip this post.

The idea of teaching only abstinence in sex ed classes makes me sick. It isn't realistic, it's naive and it teaches ignorance. However, these days, adults have so many birth control devices and drugs from which to choose, abstinence might be an easier option. (For complete and serious info, go to http://www.plannedparenthood.com)

A poster recently seen in an ob/gyn office outlined the following contraceptive choices:

* Implants (the medicinal-dispensing kind, not the breast kind)
* Depo-Provera (the every-three-months shot)
* Progestin-only birth control pills (known as POPS; hopefully your partner won't become one)
* The original Pill (original, but there are about 401 versions from various drug companies)
* The IUD (two kinds: a copper one, and one I can't remember the name of but it's something like the Macarena)
* NuvaRing (it fits down there somehow and dispenses drugs of some sort)
* The Patch (Ortho Evra, not Nicorette...don't get the two confused, or you'll crave nicotine and pickles&ice cream)
* Emergency Contraception pills or Emergency IUD insertion
* Prescription barrier methods including the diaphragm, the cap and the shield. (Barbaric? Or at least time consuming?)
* The condom***
* The female condom (yeah, right)
* Spermicides (can you say "messy")
* Fertility Awareness-Based Methods (it involves temperature taking and charting cycles...no thanks)
* Outercourse (depends on what your definition of is, is. I think this means the oral version)
* Withdrawal (you make up your own comment on this)
* Sterilization (very very permanent. unless you want reversal, then you can pay lots of money to change your mind)


Is your world spinning? After contemplating all that, arousal is the last thing on one's mind.


*** Latex condoms are the method most effective against many sexually transmitted infections — including HIV.

Comments

Brianne said…
You should have put "If you're Catholic, please skip this post." Those crazy Catholics.

I say stick with the basics and let the doctors explain the rest of the choices. That shot always scared me. If it didn't come every month how would you know if it didn't work you got pregnant?? It would be a bit scary I'd think.

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