Questioin about birth control and confidentiality

[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"] Yeah, like my coin metaphor, the chances will always remain the same. It doesn't matter how many times you flip a coin, each and every time you will have a 50% chance of it landing on heads. If condom usage has about a 2% chance of getting a woman pregnant, then it will always remain at that 2%. It doesn't matter how many times a woman has sex, she's still just as likely as getting pregnant as a woman who has sex for the first time.Famiking

Case in point: I'll be surprised if you have had sex a million times and never got pregnant (unless you're infertile or something of course).

[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]Why not just use condoms?Famiking

I'm not saying that it is unlikely to happen if you do it ten times. I'm just saying, each and every time you have the same likeliness of getting pregnant just as much as if it was your first time. The chances don't change over time.Nerd_Man

If you're trying to talk about probability, then you have a whole different type of math here. You're options are pregnant or not pregnant with pregnancy being the undesired numerator and the total number of possibilities in the denominator. In that case it's always 1/2 and thus multiplicative for each episode of intercourse. If you have sex 10 times, the possibility of pregnancy in the 10 encounters is 1/2^10 or .009%

drj077

Is that supposedly from that womans lifetime, or with that one man?MuddVader

[QUOTE="MuddVader"] Is that supposedly from that womans lifetime, or with that one man?Famiking

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[QUOTE="Sajedene"]You can forgo going through insurance if she makes less a certain income a year through planned parenthood. Not sure if that is only in California though. And please still use a condom. Birth control is not 100% effective.Sajedene

EDIT: Also, that 99.7% is definitely better than the 98% effectiveness of condums, even if it is just by 1.7%. Basically, the pill is fine as long as you use it as directed, but use the condum as well if you're unsure as to if your partner has a disease or if they are possibly unfaithful.

Link: http://contraception.about.com/od/additionalresources/qt/comparison.htm

just go to planned parenthood and pay 15 bucks a monthfor the pills, easiest way to make sure that noone knows

If we're talking about birth control besides the condom that are effective -there are depo provera shots and the IUD which I would like to think are more effective than the pill and even that can be argued.Sajedene

You're correct on the IUD but not the injections.

[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]Why not just use condoms?Famiking