An OMG moment if ever there was one…
I just read about a recent UK study by market research company Opinion Health found that alarmingly inaccurate myths about contraception may be very common.
1,000 women aged 18 to 50 were surveyed in the Bayer Schering Pharma sponsored study and 1/5th of women surveyed said they had heard of kitchen items such as bread, chicken skin and cling film being used as alternatives to the proper barrier methods. Shockingly others indicated that they had heard that food such as crisps, coke and even kababs could substitute for oral contraceptives.
What is truly terrifying though is that some people believed the pill could protect them against HIV!
I’m going to do some looking later and find some links to some good quality sex ed sites and post them here in case anyone finds this post while looking for proper information. Until then – always use a condom 
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QUICK UPDATE:
Here are the promised links for what (at a quick looks) seems to be factual advice aimed at teenagers in regards to sex and contraception.
Whilst my blog is NOT aimed at teens I wanted to provide these links for any one who came across this blog post looking for information – I hope it helps!
http://www.scarleteen.com/blog
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Can you guess who has the highest unintended pregnancy rate in Europe?
And lets not get smug – its not just the British – according to a report on http://www.newsmax.com the annual rate of AIDS diagnoses for boys aged 15 to 19 years has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, and rates of syphilis are also up.Obviously US teens need better sex ed too!
Teaching just abstinence is totally INSANE in my mind.
Certainly strongly recommend it to your teens if that’s your belief – but for goodness sake remember you are dealing with TEENAGERS and at least give them the information required to educate themselves on how to protect themselves should they need to. An unwanted pregnancy is probably one of the milder side effects of unprotected sex – after all it only changes your life forever – it doesn’t usually kill you!
What is the strangest thing YOU have heard that is used as a contraceptive?
Tags: contraception, contraceptives, Opinion Health study, pregnancy, scarleteen.com, sex, sexetc.org, uk survey
hehe alright so here is exactly how ridiculous I am, halfway through looking through your post I dropped my mouse and closed the firefox by mistake and I couldn’t locate your web site once again until 5 days later on to finish reading through where I left off because I didn’t remember how I linked to your web site in the first place ahaha in any case it was worth the delay..kudos
Increasing numbers of chlamydia infections have made it the most widespread STD in the USA. In 1997 there were 537,904 reported diagnoses, corresponding to a rate of 205.5 per 100,000 population. However, by 2007 the annual total had more than doubled to 1,108,374 and the rate per 100,000 had risen to 370.2.
I know this guy who was so tite he tried cleaning out a condom and using it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“the lord speaks”
It is STUPID thoughts like that that lead to teens completely fucking up their lives and ending up as kids raising kids or full of diseases!
I appreciate anyone commenting on this blog but yours are starting to annoy me.
We do NOT share a god – I do not share your thoughts (even though I agree you have the right to express them) but I do ask you to refrain from commenting unless you care to add something PRODUCTIVE.
u go 4 it! Ignore da fools like da 1 who posted.
you should take down those links. it is a sin for teenagers to have sex it is only for married people.