Kourtney Kardashian, like a lot of reality stars, has chosen to be open about almost everything in her life, and her recent unplanned pregnancy is no exception. But while some people have chosen to criticize her bun-in-the-oven candidness in recent weeks, we can't help but applaud it. In fact, we think there's a lot we can learn from Kourtney Kardashian and her situation. Among the bits of wisdom:

1. Remember to use your birth control. If you don't want to get pregnant, take precautions. Obviously. In Kourtney's case, she says she may have forgotten to take her pill prior to accidentally … Read More

AKA: My worst nightmare...

You take birth control pills to avoid exactly what's happened to Brit Carly O'Brien. Twice. That's right, she not only got preggers on the pill twice, but had twins both times. Queue the scary music!

Carly, who has been using the pill since she was 17, gave birth to her second set of twins, Lilly and Dylan, just two years after delivering her first set of twins, Brandon and Daisy. The happy mom is quoted as saying:

"Everyone I've spoken to, all my friends and family and even the staff at the hospital, say they have never known … Read More

2006 was a year of unprotected sex for me. No, not every time, but I started off the year with a fling with a slightly older man I was besotted with, who didn’t speak a word about condoms, and, in response, I didn’t either. I wanted to trust that he had some magical knowledge that somehow I was missing, that maybe the world had overturned itself and they were no longer necessary. I was wrong, and after a pregnancy panic as I searched for Plan B—this was right before it was so readily available—I escaped unscathed. Then later that … Read More

A woman in Germany (not necessarily a German woman) has won the right to get paternity information from an online auction house. Did we mention that the woman auctioned off sex to six different men and now needs their contact information to find out the identity of her child’s father? Yeah, that’s a big part of the story.

This story sounds like a cross between Hostel 2 and every episode of Springer. There are a few parts of this story that make us a little uneasy. 1) A woman auctions herself off … Read More

Evidently, the unplanned/ teen pregnancy problem in the United Kingdom has gotten bad enough that the government plans to do something about it. The Department of Health is investing $20 million into a campaign to get doctors focused on birth control. As it is, a woman can generally walk into her doctor’s office and request a prescription to birth control pills (the Pill, as it were) and have no problem getting it. The problem lies in making sure the pill is taken. Somewhere around 75% of women forget to take the pill on two or more consecutive days in … Read More