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Fact or fiction
Displaying 13-24 of 26 articles tagged “fact or fiction”
Birth control pill
Weight a minute
Does the pill always put on pounds?
Health care
Smeared and cleared
If you’re on Team Pap Smear, does that mean you’ve been tested for STIs?
Birth control patch
Check, please
Wait a minute. Is new birth control immediately effective?
Emergency contraception
Yo, no bros
Is it legal for guys to buy emergency contraception for women?
Pregnancy & fertility
Grace period
Sex on your period: Safe and sound or just plain messy?
Pregnancy & fertility
The good, the bad, the infertile
You do it, do it, do it and never get pregnant. Can that last?
Emergency contraception
Douche and don'ts
Coke goes down nice with fries, but can it also go "down there"?
Condom
Senseless acts
Maybe a micro-thin piece of latex isn’t that bad after all.
Withdrawal (pull out) method
Pull and pray
We’ve all said the silent pull out prayer.
Pregnancy & fertility
Chronic problems
Are you in love with a bowl-smoking boy? Then watch this.
Implant (Nexplanon)
The implanon conspiracy
An implant in your arm? What’s next, alien abduction?
Birth control ring
Ring wrong
Birth control device or a carnival game?
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