First Time Secrets

Having sex makes you pregnant. If you’re not using birth control and you’re a healthy girl, you’ll get pregnant.

Getting pregnant is great — if it’s what you want. Unfortunately, a lot of pregnancies are “accidents.” People have sex because they’re curious. Because they want to try it. Because it feels awesome and it’s fun.

And then they find out they’re pregnant, and there’s no going back.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Preventing pregnancy is a simple thing. Want to experiment with sex as much as you want without risking pregnancy? Here are the two best things you can do:

1. If you’re a woman, ask your doctor about the birth control pill. This isn’t for everyone, but if your doctor approves, you’ve got something that will prevent 99% or more of unplanned pregnancies.
2. Learn how to use a condom PROPERLY, and use one every time. This goes for guys and girls. A condom reduces the risk of pregnancy to nearly zero, and has the added bonus of keeping you safe from nasty STDs.

Just because you’re ready to try sex doesn’t mean you need to risk having a child. For more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has been educating people about how their bodies work and how to CHOOSE when you’ll have children. I believe in and support the work they do.

So to give a little something back to this great organization at the end of 2007, I visited the Planned Parenthood website and found this notice:

So I committed 10% of this site’s proceeds right there — which I guess means donating the equivalent of 20%.

Planned Parenthood believes that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, that every child should be wanted and loved, and that women should be in charge of their destinies.

Amen to that.

Happy New Year. Be good to each other, and have fun out there.