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We get it millennials. You’re always trying to show that you’re edgy—that you’re open minded and cool with whatever. But that should not extend to your method of birth control. Some research found that 33 percent of women use the pull-out method at least once a month. That’s too much. Way too much. Once in a lifetime is even too much because that’s all it takes to become pregnant, pick up a curable STD, or pickup an incurable STD. There are a lot of excuses women give as to why they use the pull-out method; they don’t want the hormones from the pill, they don’t like the intrusiveness of an IUD, they don’t like how condoms feel and so on. But none of those excuses will be comforting if your blood work comes back positive for Gonorrhea or you wind up pregnant when you’re not ready to be a mom. Here is why the pull-out method is just dumb.
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What about STD’s?
Even if you think you’ve mastered the art of the pull-out method to the point where you couldn’t possibly get pregnant (you haven’t, but let’s just go with that for a moment), what about STD’s? Hello? Oh, your partner said he’s clean. Okay. Surely he’s being 100 percent honest and has been tested after every new partner and waited the proper amount of time between new partners and tests for diseases to show up in his blood work. Sure he has.
