Fact or fiction
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Birth control pill
Weight a minute
Does the pill always put on pounds?
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Health care
Smeared and cleared
If you’re on Team Pap Smear, does that mean you’ve been tested for STIs?
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Birth control patch
Check, please
Wait a minute. Is new birth control immediately effective?
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Emergency contraception
Yo, no bros
Is it legal for guys to buy emergency contraception for women?
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Pregnancy & fertility
Grace period
Sex on your period: Safe and sound or just plain messy?
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Pregnancy & fertility
The good, the bad, the infertile
You do it, do it, do it and never get pregnant. Can that last?
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Emergency contraception
Douche and don'ts
Coke goes down nice with fries, but can it also go "down there"?
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Condom
Senseless acts
Maybe a micro-thin piece of latex isn’t that bad after all.
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Withdrawal (pull out) method
Pull and pray
We’ve all said the silent pull out prayer.
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Pregnancy & fertility
Chronic problems
Are you in love with a bowl-smoking boy? Then watch this.
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Implant (Nexplanon)
The implanon conspiracy
An implant in your arm? What’s next, alien abduction?
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Birth control ring
Ring wrong
Birth control device or a carnival game?
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