A STORY about KAREN and GRANT WHO WANTED to CHOOSE a METHOD of CONTRACEPTION, but DIDNT KNOW HOW to DO IT
It is strange that there is such a big number of unwilling pregnancies in our modern society where the information about birth control can be found nearly everywhere.
The last data prove that more than 50 per cent of pregnancies in the USA are unplanned ones. More than 70 per cent or these accident pregnancies occured because the couples did not use any contraceptive at all, but not because the tried method of contraception failed them.
Of course, there are some moments in our life when passion is stronger than common sense. And perhaps such moments of fearlessness are likely to happen in your life as well. In spite of this, an unplanned conceiving is unforgivable (except the case of a condoms deterioration, though it is not quite characteristic of it).
The choice of a method of contraception is individual, but not all women understand this fact.
For example, Karen. She is 22 and works as a shop assistant at a boutique in Texas. She has been married to Grant for about two years. Grant is a succsessful young accountant. They both have taken the desicion not to have babies until they earn enough money.
At first, Grant used condoms, but than he and his young wife arrived to the conclusion that the process of putting on the condom spoils all the intimate atmosphere. Grant confessed that making love with condom is like swimming in socks.
Karen applied to the doctor who prescribed her birth control pills. For some time everything was quite all right. But after seven months Karen began to feel tired, sleepy and realised that she had put on weight. Earlier Karen had always been proud of her body. Furthemore, being slender was necessary for her job. She asked whether she could try some other method of contraception. She knew about intrauterine contraceptives and asked if she could use them. She thought that this was the simpliest and the most effective method: the doctor inserts a loop and everything is fine...
But Karens doctor explained her that he never adviced intrauterine methods of contraception to women who do not have children. As it happens, a vergin uterus rejects the device for undefined reasons. The loop slips out the vagina imperceptibly and a woman can continue her sexual life not knowing that she is not protected.
Than Karen began to ask about calendar method, that is calculating the days when you are most likely to get pregnant. But this method is quite unreliable.
So called coitus interruptus (when the man takes the penis out of the vagina before ejaculation) was rejected by the doctor at ones. Indeed, it is a very unreliable method which can provoke sexual disstresses of various kinds.
So Karen chose cervical cap that is a small rubber device that fits around the cervix by the method of elimination. At first Karen did not like this method as the cap is to be inserted before each intercourse and be combined with spermicides. But the doctor taught her how to insert the cap easily and explained that this procedure can be done before the intercourse (in distinction from condom, which can be put only on a hard penis).
As a result, Karen was quite satisfied and used the cap for three years. She got used to the cap and in a couple of months dared to insert it in her her husbands presense. Some time later she allowed Grant to do it. Like many other couples they learned to make the contraceptive a part of foreplay.