New Contraceptives for Cascadia
Photo Credit: Chris JL via Compfight cc Last fall, researchers in Missouri caught the attention of public health experts and advocates across North America. Some 9,000 St. Louis women had been offered...
View ArticleThe Pill Is 1965 Technology
The Pill, photo by Beatrice Murch, ccFuturist Sara Robinson has called modern contraception the most disruptive technology of the last hundred years. From the time our ancestors first walked out of the...
View ArticleExorcising the Dalkon Shield
Photo credit alecskaIn 2002, 26 percent of Norwegian contraceptive users relied on a long acting method that they could simply fit and forget, the IUD. In the United States, that rate was 2 percent....
View ArticleA Contraceptive Revolution
Image credit LoveMyLARC campaign, used with permission. Imagine a future in which a woman becomes fertile only when she wants to have a child—a future in which high school and college students can...
View ArticleThe Trust Game
Photo credit MestreechCity, cc. I want to be able to take matters into my own hands and make sure I cannot father a kid until I choose. –Brian, California As a young sexually active male in a committed...
View ArticleIntrauterine Bling
Intrauterine contraceptives collection. Photo by Contrel.Picture a series of copper beads on a fine titanium alloy wire curved in a graceful sphere. It looks like an earring, but you won’t find it in a...
View ArticleParty Time! Excellent!
Oh what fun by all.consuming used under CC BY-ND 2.0 Public health officials, educators, and parents of teens have reason to party! According to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, American...
View ArticleDazed and Confused
Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex standing up? Will my boyfriend be able to feel my IUD? What are dental dams, and why do people use them for sex? Does everybody shave or trim down there? If a guy...
View ArticleBring It On
OTC Plan B by Cory Doctorow used under CC BY-SA 2.0When Plan B emergency contraceptives became available without a prescription, I sent my teenage daughter, Marley, and her friend Amanda out to do a...
View ArticleSay Anything
Equipment by Tyler used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0A young woman sits in an examining room, waiting for her medical provider. The provider arrives and picks up the chart. “I see you’re here to talk about...
View ArticleStand by Me
Teens by Lena Vasiljeva used under CC BY 2.0No one birth control method fits everyone, but today young women have better options than ever before. Across the United States, from New York to South...
View ArticleBack to the Future
Pregnant silhouette by Stefan Pasch used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0More than 80 percent of teen pregnancies are accidents. A girl with other hopes and dreams—or maybe a girl who is floundering, who hasn’t...
View ArticleBirth Control? There’s an App for That
By the Lake by Jill G used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Given that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unintended, it should come as no surprise that sexual health advocates are eager to make information and...
View ArticleSustainability Between the Sheets
Sustain Condoms 3-pack varieties. by Ken Burris (Used with permission.)When Meika Hollender’s dad, superstar green entrepreneur Jeffrey Hollender, first brought up the idea of founding a condom company...
View ArticleThe Trust Game
Why both partners should have control over their fertility. | I want to be able to take matters into my own hands and make sure I cannot father a kid until I choose. –Brian, California For a long time,...
View ArticleIntrauterine Bling
2,000 years of IUDs, from camels to body mod. | Picture a series of copper beads on a fine titanium alloy wire curved in a graceful sphere. It looks like an earring, but you won’t find it in a jewelry...
View ArticleParty Time! Excellent!
Educators and health professionals celebrate a drop in teen pregnancy. | Public health officials, educators, and parents of teens have reason to party! According to a new report from the Guttmacher...
View ArticleDazed and Confused
The case for comprehensive sex ed for children and teens. | Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex standing up? Will my boyfriend be able to feel my IUD? What are dental dams, and why do people use...
View ArticleBring It On
Universally available OTC oral contraceptives would be a game-changer. | When Plan B emergency contraceptives became available without a prescription, I sent my teenage daughter, Marley, and her friend...
View ArticleSay Anything
Medical providers' role in constructing clear options for young women. | A young woman sits in an examining room, waiting for her medical provider. The provider arrives and picks up the chart. “I see...
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