Which Birth Control Method Fits Your Life?
Single and hooking up
With your work-all-day/party-all-night life, you can barely keep track of your cell phone, much less the name of that shag last week. You'd rather die than be tied down - by a guy or a baby - heck, you don't have health insurance.
You need: Cheap, reliable birth control and protection from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Latex condoms are a must. Consider backing up with the Pill, the patch, or the implant.
Between partners
You're in a dry spell, but who cares? You've got that whole group you bike with, brunch with, blog about. You're cautious about things (you don't even send personal e-mails from work). You want to be ready, but a daily pill feels like overkill - though a baby would be worse.
You need: Condoms for STD protection when the time comes. Also consider the ring or a diaphragm/cervical cap as backup.
Happy (and horny) together
You boinked on the kitchen table, on the fire escape, in the hallway - and that was just last night. Celebs stay off coke better than you stay off each other - babies would totally crash the party.
You need: Hormonal methods, like the Pill, the ring, the Mirena IUD, the implant, the patch, or injections, which allow for plenty of whenever-wherever sex.
Continue reading here for the the best birth control if you are....
Anxious about hormones
Thinking "maybe baby"
Post-kids
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