Oh, ok. I didn´t know that was an option. I thought it was one of those things where you get what you get and you don´t get upset. :P

Wow, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing. I bet other people have had this issue but would never think to check their non-hormonal IUD... really strange.

Ooh! Will do!

Totally gross, loved every word!

Yeah. I hear ya. I was on one BC brand or another years ago, and went through a period where I could not stand the idea of having sex with my boyfriend. I cared about him, in a friendly way, and wanted to be with him, I just didn´t want him to ... touch me too much, and I did not see any point in getting naked with…

Oh, man. I mistakenly hung out for far too long one day on a reddit thread about Gyno Horror Stories. It was fascinating.

Without ALL the details, there was a story about a Latina woman who had come to the low-income mobile exam unit complaining of pain and warmth in her abdomen. The doctor who examined her found that…

As a dude, how bad was the scraping? I was thinking about getting one, but I would pass on it based on the likelihood of hideous periods (I can´t do it) and rejection (oh, god) ... but I couldn´t feel good about it if the thing also lessened his enjoyment of sex, too!

Crap.

Oh! I see it now. Thanks! I wanna do this, too!

Yes, I would like to know, too! What did you do to clean them will toner?

... I most definitely do not wash my pillow cases as often as I should. Would this help me? I MUST KNOW MORE!

Oh, my GOD. That sounds terrible and my heart goes out to you — and all who are like you.

Ugh. God, those poor people.

Holy shit. If you get pregnant, it will be a sign to start a new religion.

Can you tell me more? Do you have any personal experience? I´ve heard a lot about rejection (the body rejecting it) or having serious pain after insertion that required it to be taken out.

I´d rather not put myself through it for nothing ... but I can´t seem to find any information about how rare those things I…

What you say might be true, but the BC users on this thread that you are sitting there blithely castigating for their choices are individuals, not societal groups.

I prefer sex without condoms, and I feel fully empowered to ask for them if I wanted them.

Very true. I think in my lifetime, even with very good useage (I hesistate to say 'perfect' useage) I´ve had perhaps 3 condoms break on me. Each time it was extremely worrisome.

The implicit expectation is that your male partner will, at some point, engage in reproductive abuse or rape you. I.e.: They'll stick it in without the condom despite previous agreements.

Ah, ok. So clearly you´ve thought this through. I´ve seen a lot of people try to stay together 'for the kids,' (so that they´ll have a two-parent upbringing, or for religious reasons) and end up totally miserable. I didn´t want you to be one of those unless you had really thought about it.

Is that wrong? I mean, 'I´m having a lot of pain,' is different from the biological fact of simply being on one´s period.

Yeah. I know that many people have excellent care in the US, but that has never been my experience. Even when I was able to get good care, it was always hideously expensive and there almost always seemed to be some kind of billing or insurance mishap that would require a lot of paperwork to be submitted.