There are several factors that go into choosing the best birth control—your reproductive plans, your feelings about hormones, your experience with cramps. All methods have their pros but when it comes to the most effective type of birth control, there’s a clear winner: long-acting reversible contraceptives (or LARCs). LARCs—which include IUDs and implants—are between 98…
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Cheryl was 23 when she got married and always assumed she and her husband would have kids down the line. “We talked about having two to four kids. There were all these different periods where we set an age or a stage but then we would get there and it would be like ‘oh not…
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It’s 10:30am on a Sunday and I’m standing in line to buy Plan B. The guy in front of me is wearing a dirty blanket like a cape, carrying a supersized Heineken and shouting. This is not how I expected my weekend to wrap. A few months ago I decided to go off the pill.…
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Conservative commentator SE Cupp has been such a staunch supporter of the NRA that she was once featured as an “NRA mom” in an ad campaign. But over the weekend and in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in two American cities that left 31 people dead, Cupp said on her CNN show that she’d…
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Feeling in charge in the bedroom looks different for everyone—it’s not always the stereotypical fantasy of black leather and whips (though totally fine if that’s your thing). Figuring out how to take control in the bedroom in a way that makes you feel sexy as hell (and just like you’re reinacting some feminist porn scene)…
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The birth control pill is an an imperfect—though still awesome—invention. Even though it’s been one of the most popular birth control methods for decades, many women have a love-hate relationship with their pill. On top of the fact that the basic idea hasn’t changed since it first became a contraceptive option in the 1960s (three…
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