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August 17th 2010

Getting Birth Control Over-the-Counter

- Bedsider

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August 16th 2010

Getting Prescription Birth Control

- Bedsider

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June 11th 2010

Elephants, Birth Control, and Baboons: Things I Learned in South Africa

- Stefanie

I’m back! Let the crazy stories re-commence.

I was sitting in a lecture listening to some professor wax poetic about elephants. No joke. The rest of the class was taking copious notes. I was just short of drawing horses in my note book. I’m not the best graduate student.

So the professor is yammering on about elephants when he says, “Some wish to control the elephant population with birth control. Elephants can destroy the vegetation in an area if the population is not in check.” He now had my full attention.

I turned to Miss Happy Face and said “How do they get the elephants to take the birth control?”

February 26th 2010

Womb Service — Is It Really Okay to Skip Periods?

- Provider Perspective

A number of birth control methods hold the promise of lighter periods, fewer periods, or none at all, namely the Mirena intrauterine device, the Depo Provera shot, the single-rod implant Implanon, or continuous use of the pill or NuvaRing. To some of us, the idea of effective contraception and no periods sounds like menstrual nirvana. But for others there is a niggling worry: is it really okay to skip periods?

December 18th 2009

It’s All Fun and Games Until You Lose a Condom in Your Vajayjay. . .

- Stefanie

The other night I was talking to Polly Pocket. We were doing our work version of “Best Week Ever.” Basically you have thirty seconds to tell the other one what you are doing at work before you dive into the really important stuff . . . sex and gossip. In an effort to protect Polly Pocket’s identity, I won’t tell you what she was doing at work.

I was talking about how I was trying to find young adults to talk about some new research we had coming out called The Fog Zone.

Polly Pocket: “Do I have to drive with my brights on when I’m in the ‘The Fog Zone'?”

November 4th 2009

How I Dumped The Pill And Met The IUD

- Lena Chen

Two weeks ago, I ended my longest and most tumultuous relationship to date. Four years and hundreds of dollars after my first prescription, I decided that I had swallowed my final birth control pill. I tossed out my last packet, lay back in stir-ups, and got an IUD.