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If you’re considering minipills as a birth control method, or already use them and want more information.

If you’re considering fertility awareness (FAM) as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.

If you’re considering emergency contraception – pills or a copper IUD – as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.

If you’re considering Depo-Provera as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.

If you’re considering the contraceptive patch as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.

Contraceptive implant research and development began at the Population Council laboratories in New York in 1966. The development of implants was made possible by the discovery of silicone and its bio-compatibility in the human body.

If you’re considering cervical barriers as a birth control method, or already use them and want more information.

If you want a hormonal method of contraception, but need help deciding which one.

If you’re looking for methods of birth control and are trying to decide between an implant, the shot or IUD.

If you’re considering IUDs or IUSs as a birth control method, or already use them and want more information.

If you’re considering the combination pill (the most common form of oral contraceptives) as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.

Pregnancy prevention information for someone whose body can co-create a pregnancy, but in whose body itself pregnancy can’t happen.

If you’re looking for methods of birth control and trying to decide between Lea’s Shield, the Sponge or spermicide.

If you’re looking for a barrier method of birth control and want help deciding which one.

If you’re considering a nonhormonal method or practice of pregnancy prevention, and want help deciding which one(s).

If you’re considering a hormonal method of birth control, and want help choosing one.

A page if you’re someone who does not want to take ANY risk, at all, of a pregnancy, and wants to know your options.

You’re considering a method or practice of pregnancy prevention, and want need to decide if you want to use a hormonal or nonhormonal method.

Our giant 25-page guide to birth control options provides in-depth info on contraceptive choices to help you find your BC BFF.

A couple of years ago, I learned to knit and I got really really interested in knitting. Anytime I was sitting still (and sometimes when I was moving) I was knitting. But then, after a while, I sorta stopped getting that urge to knit everytime I sat still. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy knitting. It…

Looking at what you’ve posted, and given he knows that not only does anal sex not feel good for you, it causes you pain, I’d be inclined to agree that there’s probably something very unhealthy going on here interpersonally. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to give someone tips on how to do something…

I’m afraid that there isn’t a whole lot I can do for you, Guyman. You’re right: it is totally normal right now for you to feel strong sexual desires, and to get pretty excited when you’re around people that you’re attracted to. It’s also certainly more profound because of your age. It does settle…

What if it’s not about her coming out of her shell, but about the fact that she is NOT strongly attracted to girls, or attracted to girls at all? A person’s gender identity doesn’t determine their sexual orientation. In other words, very “girly” girls can be and are attracted to women (or people of…

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…

When someone asks me a sex readiness question, one of the big things I look for is that the onset of sex in a relationship is about more than one person mostly or solely initiating. In other words, I hear you telling me that he says you can stop if you want to, and that tells me he’s probably the…