Things To Consider When Choosing Your Birth Control
by ParentCo.
May 11, 2016
The Pill
Ask yourself this - how much of your memory bank is already overburdened with Kelly Clarkson lyrics? Because this method requires you to remember something every single day. At the exact. Same. Time.
Sure, you can set an alarm on your phone. But will you remember to set the alarm? And when you go to turn off said alarm, can you be sure you wont be distracted by a photo of a dog that looks exactly like Tom Hiddleston that someone just put on Facebook?
If the answer is yes, then go on. Pill it up.
Downside: Sore breasts, possible weight gain, and an increased risk of every few weeks screaming at your partner in an explosive rage when you ask him if he likes your shoes and all he says is, Sure.
(Bonus: Save one of the round empty packs for Halloween. Tape it to your partners chest and tell everyone he is Iron Man.)
Depo-Provera
Kind of sounds like an Italian boy band, but is in fact a shot. Provides effective, estrogen-free protection for three months. Perfect! I hear you say. Get the needle in my arm, already!
However, please consider that possible, though less common side effects include:
- weight gain
- decreased sex drive
- depression
- increased hair loss, OR increased hair on face.
So there is a small risk of turning into a bald, fat, depressed were-woman. Which may result in more tepid advances from your partner.
Fortunately, with your decreased sex drive, you likely will not care.
The IUD
Your partner claims to know someone who was once poked by the sturdy strings on this device. You agree that having ones genitals jabbed mid-coitus could be a bit of a mood killer.
You now fear if an IUD were inserted into your person, your partner would then regard sex with you like that scene in Flash Gordon, where Flash has to fearfully reach into that weird tree, expecting at any moment to be mortally wounded by a green alien scorpion.
Consider this a check in the
con column.
Pro: One of the most effective forms available. Plus, you dont have to remember to do anything for twelve whole years, and can reserve all available brainpower for thinking random thoughts, like how once when you were getting a half head of highlights the hairdresser told you she has two uteruses. (Uteri?)
The Mirena
Like the IUD, but is serious for realz not joking around, because it also releases hormones. Once inserted, you wont even know its there, except for the first few months when you may experience what some call light cramping, and what your friend called someone twisting a corkscrew into her liver.
But its 99% effective, lasts up to five years, and if you can fall asleep at night without the words uterine migration and perforation floating into your brain and closing your throat with anxiety, then this might be the one for you.
The NuvaRing
A good choice if you enjoy shoving a rubber, eighties-style bracelet into your vagina, then every few weeks ferreting it back out again.
Possible risks include vaginal itching, headaches, and forgetting if youve taken it out, or if you are just stacking them in there like a small, cervical Claires Boutique.
Upside: one day if you do decide to have a baby, he might emerge wearing them all on his wrist like the lead singer of A-ha. And who doesnt like Take on Me?
Pull and Pray
And then name the resulting child Piper. Send her to live at Ted Cruzs house. When considering this method, take a moment to remember how your mom once confusingly said, Whats that called again? The push and explode?
Chuckle quietly to yourself. And wonder if this is why you have seven siblings.
Condoms
An excellent option if youd like to see your partners manhood retreat in such a way that it appears to somehow have ascended up into his body.
Have a Baby
This is a foolproof way to keep further seed from entering your person, as you will be so tired you will soon think sex is that thing where you lie next to each other and doze off while talking about how you never finished season 2 of Serial. You will have lots of sex.
The pros: You will be performing a public service by also acting as birth control for the other residents of your building. For when they see your child lie prone on the floor of the elevator and refuse to be moved, or hear him rise at 6am to play his lectric guh-tar with the broken volume knob, rest assured that all of your neighbors have now pledged themselves to a childless existence.
The cons: labor intensive. Costly. Greatly increased risk of destroying your nipples, social life, and all expensive electronics.
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