Birth Control: Use Two Forms Every Time or Risk The Consequences

Scientists and researchers have been interested in creating a male birth control pill for decades. The task has proven to be far more difficult than creating the female pill because while women make one egg per month, men produce about 1,000 sperm every second.

If a successful birth control pill for men was created, would it be popular? Perhaps, but some men would probably still prefer condoms due to possible side effects or other reasons. How many would continue to be irresponsible and not give it much thought or simply hope their partner is consistently using one of the various forms of birth control? Way too many, unfortunately.

Whose fault is this?

Parents who don’t teach their teens, from a young age, about the importance of birth control, and why it’s better to create a life and career before becoming a parent.

A lack of sex education programs, those that teach abstinence as the only way to avoid unplanned pregnancies, or the unavailability of birth control to some teens can also be blamed. Abstinence can work to a point, but lets be realistic; often it’s about as effective as telling under age college kids not to drink alcohol.

By the way, because no birth control method is 100% effective, if two forms of birth control aren’t used every time, the pregnancy was not “unplanned.” One or both of the individuals wanted to have a child, either consciously or subconsciously. There is also the risk of one partner secretly wanting to have a child for various reasons, so if you don’t always use protection on yourself, even if they assure you they are using it, it’s your own fault if an “unplanned” pregnancy happens.

For those men who don’t like condoms, too bad! Learn to tolerate them or risk the possibility of wasting your life working at a menial job because the cost of a child made it impossible for you to go to or finish college and reach your career potential.

Everyone having sex needs to take a pro-active role with birth control. Using two forms of birth control and safe sex, every time, should be ingrained into the minds of teens.

Copyright (c) 2010 Stephen Petullo

Read entire article about the male pill here:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/07/future.contraceptives.male.pill/?hpt=Mid

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