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Their Doctors Wouldn’t Listen — So They Took Their Fight To The FDA

Mia Garchitorena

One Surprising Health Benefit Of Being On The Pill

How Zika Could Affect The Fight For Cheaper Birth Control In The U.S.

A Handy Guide To Some Of The Best Condom Options Out There

Looking for a handy guide to some of the best condom options out there? We've got you, um, covered.

by Rebecca Adams

11 Things No One Tells You About Going Off The Pill

by Camille Chatterjee

THIS Is Why Men Don’t Want To Wear Condoms?

Most adult men have taken a sexual education class and know that condoms prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, accordin

by Evette Dionne

Giving Kids Condoms Only Works If They Know How To Use Them

A new study out of the University of Notre Dame shows that giving kids condoms without educating them in how to use them isn’t just unhelpful, it can

by Lilli Petersen

We Need To Talk About These Safe Sex Myths

Kenyan-born and Tanzania-based sexual health educator Maureen Oduor knows that soda doesn’t prevent pregnancy, but not all of the young women she cou

by Hayley MacMillen

The Life-Changing Birth Control Advice I Wish I’d Heard Ear...

When I was 12, I got the worst migraine of my life. It lasted an entire week, and at the end of that week, I got a present: my first period. And every mont

by Danielle Braff

Sterilization Is As Popular As The Pill

Birth control comes in so many forms: the ring, the pill, the shot, and more. And a recent survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

by Sara Coughlin

5 Major Things You Should Know About The Supreme Court’s Recent B...

This never-ending battle over women’s access to birth control was punctuated by Monday’s Supreme Court decision in the

by Brigitte Amiri

10 Things To Know If You Want To Stop Using Condoms

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What You Should Do The Next Time You Forget To Bring A Condom

The video above depicts a typical impromptu heterosexual hookup. The woman forgot to shave her legs, the guy's shirt buttons are impossible to undo, a

by Sara Coughlin

Discover Why These 10 Powerful Women Practice Safe Sex — Then Ple...

It's said that there is safety in numbers, and Meika Hollander, cofounder of natural condom company Sustain, is out to prove this is true when it come

by Hayley MacMillen

Why I Quit Birth Control

Illustrated by Ly Ngo. This was originally published on February 22, 2014. I started using NuvaRing in 2008. Before that, I had a very casual relationship

You Can Now Get Birth Control Without A Doctor In California

A 2013 bill that would allow women to get birth control straight from their pharmacies took effect as California law last Friday. Now, pharmacists in the s

by Sara Coughlin

How Did We Never Notice This Crazy Friends Moment Before?

We're quickly learning that season 2, episode 6, “The One With The Baby On The Bus,” was among the most important Friends eps in the entir

by Vanessa Golembewski

Bet You Didn’t Know Birth Control Could Also Help Prevent THIS

Birth control is an excellent tool to keep in your arsenal for reasons including — but certainly not limited to — keeping you from getting preg

by Sarah Jacoby

How ISIS Pushes Birth Control To Keep Women & Girls Enslaved

Through interviews with dozens of women, she found that ISIS fighters were administering oral contraceptives and Depo-Provera injections as well as testing

by KAELYN FORDE

Here’s Why The Unplanned Pregnancy Rate Is The Lowest It...

Some much-needed good news on the reproductive health front: According to new research by the Guttmacher Institute, published yesterday in the New England

by Hayley MacMillen

How One App Is Delivering Birth Control To Your Door

When news of the birth control delivery app Nurx first hit, we (and the rest of the internet) were stoked. It was immediately hailed the Uber for birth con

by Sara Coughlin

Porn Performers Won’t Be Required To Wear Condoms On Set — ...

Yesterday, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) rejected a controversial measure that would have required the state's

by Hayley MacMillen

Women Told Not To Get Pregnant Until 2018 Because Of Zika, But So...

The Zika virus is currently spreading through more than two dozen countries. But in a country like El Salvador, where sexual education is scarce, contracep

by Torey Van Oot

Watch: If Men Had To Deal With Women’s Birth Control Woes

This video from Above Average is a glimpse into an alternate reality that will never, ever be. In this world, men deal with the same kind pressures, respon

by Sara Coughlin

This Guy Redid The CDC’s Guidelines For Women’s Alcoh...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set off a firestorm of controversy last week when it released a report recommending that sexually active wom

by Hayley MacMillen

The CDC Wants All Women To Stop Drinking — Unless They’re O...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all sexually active women who don't use birth control avoid alcohol in order to prevent

by Sara Coughlin

Couples Who Use Birth Control May Be Getting Down More Often

This story was originally published on January 28th, 2016.You probably already know much of what makes contraception so great. Pregnancy prevention, hormon

by Hayley MacMillen

This One-Page Form Could Threaten Access To Birth Control

Brigitte Amiri is a senior staff attorney for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.The Supreme Court is taking up a new case about contraception coverage.

by Brigitte Amiri

I Have An IUD To Avoid Having An Abortion — That’s It

All I had to tell my provider to get a Mirena IUD last September was that I wanted one. Getting an IUD is not a pioneering move: Despite a bad rap that has

by Hayley MacMillen

This New Form Of Male Birth Control Is Blowing Our Minds

Ever wish you could control a man's ability to procreate with the flip of a switch? Well, German craftsman Clemens Bimek sure did, so he invented the

by Hayley MacMillen