INTRODUCTION
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Welcome
to AfraidToAsk.com's Contraception & Birth Control Guide.
This guide has been developed to help you learn about common
contraceptive methods and to make informed decisions about
your health and life. Though
this guide is a good start, we strongly recommend you call
your own doctor or a local
family planning clinic to take the next step in learning
more about correct contraceptive use.
The
probability of pregnancy after a single act of intercourse
is calculated to be 15% if it occurs once a week and increases
to 33% if it occurs every other day. Each year 3.2 million
unplanned pregnancies occur as a result of no use, misuse,
or malfunction of contraceptive methods. This often poses
great emotional and financial distress to the people involved,
including the parents (whether wed or unwed), the unplanned
child, and sometimes even society as a whole.
This makes contraception and its methods a topic that must
be addressed. Our goal here is to give you a easy-to-understand,
yet thorough, guide to preventing unwanted pregnancies.
This guide will address the family planning concept and
how contraceptives actually work in preventing pregnancy.
One of the best resources for learning about contraceptive
choices and getting a contraceptive is your primary care
physician.
Another
note, though this guide is focused as a contraceptive guide
for heterosexual vaginal sexual intercourse, the sexually
transmitted disease (STD) portions of this guide is applicable
to all sexual acts, including vaginal, oral, and anal intercourse.
Whether participants are heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexua,
sexually transmitted diseases do not discriminate.
To see detailed information and photographs about the common
sexually transmitted infections, visit our STD
Online Guide.
