Condoms catch up with Pill as safe sex message gets through
Condoms have caught up with the Pill as the most popular contraceptive with women in a sign that the safe-sex message may be getting through. New data from the Office for National Statistics show that condoms are the first choice of contraceptive for one in four women, the same proportion that favours the Pill. The same annual survey of more than 2,500 people found that 34 per cent of sexually active men who were not in a steady relationship said they had increased their use of condoms in the...

Lil Wayne Confirms He Is Expecting Yet Another Child… This One With Nivea: PHOTO
Lil Wayne must not have been taught about Birth Control because he is now expecting hi...

The PhilmGuy Reviews -Where the Wild Things Are'
Where the Wild Things Are is more effective Birth Control than condoms. As the movie played, I glanced over at my 2-year-old and wondered if it wasn't too late to trade him back in for store credit at the Hospital. I'm joking, but I did shudder when I imagined my sweet little boy morphing into an ungrateful tween who dresses up in a wolf costume, then defiantly leaps onto the table when you try to serve him dinner. Tell him he has to eat, then he bites a chunk out of your shoulder, then...

Abortion still key birth control
People may be surprised to know Abortion has been legal in Japan since 1949, more than a decade earlier than in other industrialized countries.

7 Tips on Making a Menstruation Calendar …: PHOTO
You're planning a vacation, or even your honeymoon, so you want to know when you'll get your period. That's when a period calendar comes in handy. How do you make one? Here's how… 1. Get a special notebook or calendar. You'll have better success if you find a calendar or notebook that you will use just for your period calendar. 2. Consider the Pill. One of the best ways to become regular enough in your cycle to make a calendar is to use Birth Control pills. 3. Know your cycle....

Contraceptive pill has made women less attracted to masculine men... and more interested in 'boyish' looks: PHOTO
Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in masculine men and make boyish men more attractive.

Men wanted to test contraceptive
Scientists are seeking couples to take part in a trial of a new contraceptive injection for men.

The Pill makes women pick -dad'
The Birth Control pill may have done more than just help liberate women

Bay Area woman sues Yaz birth control
A Bay Area woman says the Birth Control pill Yaz caused her to have a stroke.

Abortion Down, Contraception Up: Recipe for Health Reform?
Video: Women's Health: Birth Control myths and more

Conscience clauses not just about abortion anymore
WASHINGTON — Faced with a request to give an unmarried female patient a prescription for Birth Control pills, Dr. Michele Phillips looked to her conscience for the answer.

Doctors Baffled by Depo-Provera Withdrawal: PHOTO
Some women report nightmarish symptoms trying to quit Depo-Provera Birth Control injections and doctors are baffled.

Sexy Time: Movie Myths about Sex: PHOTO
We all know the movies don't necessarily contain the most accurate depictions of actual life. Or do we? Whether we realize it or not, we all pick up subtle things from movies that we expect to find in our actual lives. And while I'm willing to overlook some of the media’s follies (like the fact that people in any foreign country all speak English), some of their depictions of sex are just. so. wrong. Sex requires a soundtrack. Sure, some people like to have sex to music and watching...

Heidi Montag Wants To Be The “Next Octomom”
A couple weeks ago, Spencer Pratt accused wife Heidi Montag of using trickery to get pregnant on The View . Now, it looks like he might actually be telling the truth. According to friend Audrina Patridge, Heidi has expressed her desire to become the next Octomom ! Look out, Spencer… Heidi may be secretly meeting with Octomom’s evil IVF doctors. In Audrina’s latest interview with Us , she confirmed that Heidi was indeed “ready for kids.” Says Patridge: “she...

Is Your Birth Control Emasculating Men? The Daily Mail Thinks So!: PHOTO
A new study has found that women who are on the Pill tend to favor boyish-looking men over more traditionally masculine men. This study has given the writers at the British tabloid The Daily Mail a chance to link women’s Birth Control habits with what they say is the “softening” on male celebrity pin-ups. Women went from lusting over furrowed-browed hunks like Steve McQueen to pining over lady-boys like Zac Efron, the Mail says. Good heavens! It turns out that even when men...

Taking the pill for last 40 years 'has put women off masculine men': PHOTO
Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a female's interest in masculine men - and make boyish men such as Johnny Depp more attractive.

Five Arrested In Homecoming Assault; Sarah Palin Slams Levi, CBS [Leftovers]: PHOTO
• Five men have been arrested in the Gang Rape and Robbery of a 15-year-old teen outside her school's homecoming. Police say they now think 10 people took part in the Assault as 20 watched and, possibly, took pictures. •

Chris Matthews Rude Awakening: $787-Billion Stimulus 'A Big Grab Bag of Stuff'': PHOTO
It's an odd natural occurrence when you put MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer together, but when it happens they seem to draw some obvious conclusions - albeit nearly 10 months too late.

Study: Abortions decline, but 70,000 women die annually
Abortion and unintended pregnancies have declined worldwide but unsafe Abortions kill 70,000 women each year, according to a major new study. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the lowest rates of contraceptive use and highest rates of unintended pregnancies, accounts for 38,000 of the deaths from unsafe Abortions, says the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports Abortion rights. ( FactCheckedED.og writes, "While the Guttmacher Institute's statistics are highly reliable, its approach...

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: I'm 'avoiding my husband'
Elisabeth Hasselbeck said on Barbara Walters' Sirius XM radio show that she is done having kids. And her method of achieving that goal? "I'm clearly avoiding my husband," former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, (shown here in a 2007 photo). But that isn't easy, says Hasselbeck, 32, and mom of three (Grace, 4; Taylor, 23 months; and Isaiah, 2 months). "This is the problem ... he's very cute." Asked if she's ever heard of Birth Control, Hasselbeck replied,...

David Beckham portrait printed on condoms
An image of a sleeping David Beckham is set to be printed on condoms in Spain. According to The Sun, Beckham's sleeping image will be decorating a new line of condoms. The range is being launched by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, and in addition to Beckham, features other images from its Tears of Eros art collection. The depiction of Beckham was created by Sam Taylor-Wood, and originally went on display at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2004. Said Francesca von Habsburg, who founded the

Robin Thicke - Thicke Patton To Become Parents: PHOTO
Soul star Robin Thicke is set to become a dad - his actress wife Paula Patton is pregnant with the couple's first child. Publicists have confirmed the happy news just weeks after Patton told Giant magazine she had "stopped taking Birth Control" in an effort to get pregnant. The actress told the publication she had been mistaken as Thicke's pregnant wife last year (08) when she showed up to the opening of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Las Vegas, wearing an ill-fitting dress that gave her what appeared...

70,000 Women a Year Die From Unsafe Abortions: PHOTO
After three years of research, the New York-based Guttmacher Institute has concluded that although contraceptive use has lowered the number of Abortions worldwide, unsafe Abortions still account for a staggering 70,000 deaths a year , particularly in the developing world. More than half the deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended pregnancies. "In much of the developing world," said the Institute's president Sharon...

Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK – Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer Abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe Abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey. More than half the deaths, about 38,000, are in sub-Saharan Africa , which was singled out as the region with by far the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended pregnancies. The report, three years in the making, was compiled by the New...

Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year: PHOTO
A woman in a maternity ward at Makeni Hospital in Sierra Leone. A report found only 28% of married African women use contraceptives. Photograph: Issouf Sanogo About 70,000 women die every year and many more suffer harm as a result of unsafe Abortions in countries with restrictive laws on ending a Pregnancy, according to a report. The total number of Abortions across the globe has fallen, the influential Guttmacher Institute says, but that drop relates only to legal Abortions and is mostly the...