In our contraceptive experience, birth control pills have been both cursed and thanked. Damn you for those extra 10 pounds (hiss, hiss) but many thanks for the extra cup size (wink, wink). Makes sense. We are, after all, tricking our bodies into thinking we're pregnant. Why not have a slightly rounded belly to match?

Yet, we've always been told toning up isn't witchcraft—it's biology. Ingest more calories than you burn, voila, it goes right to your hips. Sit all day and avoid physical exertion? Don't be surprised if all that slacking equates into a less … Read More

John McCain press corps got silence instead of 'straight talk' when asked by a reporter what he would do about the fact that some health insurance plans cover Viagra but not birth control. Watch his awkward answer regarding b.s. double standards after eight seconds of squirming!

According to a recent study in Australia, 60% of women with unplanned pregnancies last year claimed to be using birth control. And 21% of those women claim that they were on more than one kind of birth control. In addition to unplanned pregnancies, the number of reported cases of Chlamydia have tripled in the last seven years. It sounds like young people need to hear a little more about safe sex in Down Under. “Crikey, we were safe, that ‘roo was sedated!” (Thank you!)

In all seriousness, various Aussie women’s groups … Read More

From The New York Times

By Donald G. McNeil Jr.

The female condom has never caught on in the United States. But in the third world, where it was introduced in the late 1990s, public health workers hoped it would overthrow the politics of the bedroom, empower women and stop the AIDS epidemic in its tracks.

It did not. Female condoms never really caught on there, either.

Only about 12 million female condoms are delivered each year in poor countries, compared with about 6 billion male condoms. Couples complained that the female version was awkward, unsightly, noisy and slippery — … Read More