Birth Control

Did You Know?

• American teens are still engaging in sexual intercourse at a very young age. Girls who had their first intercourse at age 16 or younger most often regretted their early introduction to sex.
• Emergency contraception is well known among physicians but not amongst the general public. Family-planning advocates hope that emergency contraception can help prevent a vast majority of the 3 million unintended pregnancies in the U.S.
• Spermicides such as nonoxynol 9 may not prevent HIV infection & sexually transmitted diseases.
• Condoms that are available to high school students in their schools leads to higher condom use, not higher teen promiscuity, a new study finds.
• People who underwent small-group educational training on how to avoid risky sexual behaviors used condoms more frequently and had unprotected sex less frequently.