pregnancy

Are You Risking Pregnancy When You Switch Birth Control Methods? [Body Blog]
About 2 in 5 sexually active women in the U.S. aren’t using any form of contraception. Yikes! I don’t think I have to tell you that leads to pregnancy. But still, if 3 out of 5 women are using contraception, it doesn’t make sense that there are so many unintended pregnancies. What gives?
Scientist Says Oral Sex Cures Morning Sickness [WTF Friday]
There are loads of rumored cures for unbearable morning sickness – eating crackers, drinking sports drinks, eating fresh ginger – but this new one is a little more unusual.

The Five Scariest Facts About Pregnancy
As if 16 & Pregnant and my 7th grade health class didn’t give me enough reasons to never produce offspring, turns out there’s a bunch of other aspects of pregnancy that scare the hell out of me. Maybe I’m biased since I’ve never had much of an interest in having kids, but just consider this a fair warning from one female to another.
Sex in the News: Wrapping up the Reproductive Year
When I started writing this column back in February the across the United States, many states were reevaluating their legislation around reproductive health. We’re nearing the end of the year and yet issues surrounding reproductive health are continuing to pop up. Access to abortion, distribution of Plan B, and issues around birth control are still coming up across they country.
Candy Dish: Can’t Believe This is Still an Issue
• Why is race still a dating factor?
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• This is totally normal…NOT!
• Whoa…American Idol has gotten so bad
• 8 types of Facebook creepers
• What attracts you to someone?
• Can you get pregnant if….
Sexy Time: Bareback Mountin’
There are a lot of decisions to be made in a long-term relationship — whose friends to hang out with more often, if and when to cohabit, whose place to crash at more often, and what you’d both like the future to look like. Once sex enters the relationship – whether if it’s on the first date or on the first night of marriage, there comes a whole new set of decisions to make.
Sexy Time: The Rules of The FWB
If there’s one way to complicate a friendship, it would be to add sex to the mix. This “hook-up culture,” as it has been so nicely labeled by middle-agers, seems to be the norm on college campuses everywhere. Students are much more likely to have a few drinks and go home with a friend, than go on a “real” dinner-and-a-movie date.

She Lost How Much!? How Fast!?
Bethenny Frankel from The Real Housewives of New York City has recently received a lot of flack f…
Duke It Out: College Condoms
This week, under the category of “news that made me say WTF!” was this little story about students at Georgetown University taping their mouths and chaining themselves to a statue in front of the school in protest of the fact the Georgetown doesn’t provide or help to provide contraceptive options like condoms to it’s students.
Tuffy Luv Is Engaged…in Conversation About Being Engaged
Dear Tuffy Luv, My best friend got engaged on Valentine’s Day. I want to be excited for her big moment, but I can’t help but feel like she’s making a gigantic mistake. She’s only known him since November (he was a mutual friend of the guy she was sleeping with at the time) and has a long history of rushing into relationships with really sketchy guys.
The Doc Is In: Will Plan B Hurt Me Down The Road?
Will taking Plan B multiple times affect the ability to get pregnant later down the road? My boyfriend and I are talking about having a baby sometime in the future but I have taken Plan B more than once in the past… Have my chances of becoming pregnant been reduced?
Teen Mom: For Lessons or for Ratings?
Teen Mom. Yes, like most people, I am obsessed. I am still trying to figure out what Catelynn has that I don’t (besides braces, a trailer, and a 1995 JCPenny homecoming dress) that makes Tyler choose HER over me. SO unfair.
Sexy Time: Wrap it Up This Holiday Season
Condoms often get a bad rap. Their amazing qualities (they prevent STDs and pregnancy, people!) are often downplayed by horny college boys, because “sex doesn’t feel as good” with them on. While I think a slight loss in sensation is a small price to pay for your health and piece of mind, I’ve put together a list of condoms that even the drunkest frat boy wouldn’t turn down.
Sexy Time: Does Peeing After Sex Protect You?
I’m one of those girls who religiously pees after sex. I read an article at some point in my life (probably in Cosmo when I was sneaking it at 15) about how peeing could prevent UTIs. Combine that with the fact that I inherited my mothers insanely-active bladder, and I can’t imagine not taking that trip to the potty.
Saturday Read: Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Although reviewed as “one of this year’s most inviting summer novels” by the New York Times, J. Courtney Sullivan’s first novel Commencement is the perfect back-to-school dorm room read to carry any undergraduate woman through the first days of their fall term.
The Doctor Is In: OMG, Am I Preggers?
Q: My period is irregular every month. Sometimes it comes 6 weeks apart and other times it can be up to 9. I am not on birth control (can’t handle the side effects) and practice safe sex with my boyfriend. The problem is that I get freaked out every month that I’m pregnant.