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Too many choices? Not enough time?
A few years ago, a friend went off the pill. She’d been on it long enough, she said, and though she was 38 at the time, she and her husband weren’t ready to “try.” So, she insisted he use condoms. Every time. I said to her, “Do you know there are only, like, 3 days a month during which you can get pregnant? Five tops?” And she looked at me like I’d just told her I could see Russia from my backyard.
As a young woman, it’s easy to think you understand your menstrual cycle. You get your period, hopefully with some regularity, and when you have sex, because you get your period, you can get pregnant. You go on the pill, you still get your period, but you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant. So the question is, did the pill make us forget that we get our periods to get pregnant and enable women to wait too long to get pregnant?
Writing in New York magazine, Vanessa Grigoriadis explores this question. On the occasion of the pill’s 50th birthday, she argues that while the pill introduced a level of choice and control to women, it also (might have) made them forget that their biological clocks were ticking.
Proving once again that there’s never too much of a good thing, scientists have given the go-ahead to have as much sex as you want. Even if you’re not planning a baby right now, word has it daily sex (yes, we said daily) is good for sperm motility. Continue reading »
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