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99% effective is nowhere near 100%, perhaps counterintuitively. Sex twice a week for a year and you're probably in deep shit.
The only birth control that is 100% effective is not having sex.
Abstinence is not birth control.
That’s like saying the only way to build a house that doesn’t fall down is to not build the house.
Abstinence is extremely effective. However, it’s impractical and associated with moralists and the piss-poor “sex education” that Americans get.
But it is 100% effective.
And yes, the best way to build a house that will never, ever fall down is to not build one. It is impractical, and beside the point, but it is true!
The abject lack of sex isn't a way to make sex safer. It's dodging the danger of sex, not addressing it. Abstinence has 0% effectiveness as safe sex, as the lack of sex is not at all related to safe sex.
Playing linguistics games is exactly how abstinence gets pushed in the first place. Agreeing that these games are accurate, when they are wholley not, just reinforces those regressive polices.
It really is, avoiding risk vs mitigating risk. Birth control is summarized as avoiding unwanted pregnancies, not about baby safe sex.
And I'm not saying "don't have sex if you don't want babies" because that's stupid ass argument considering we have so many other options for birth control for you to choose from
The only safe way to fly is to not fly.
It’s not birth control.
Vasectomies aren't 100% foolproof.
Now how in the hell is female sterilization not 100%?
Even after tubal litigation it's possible to still get pregnant if the fallopian tubes grow back together or if another tube/path forms. It's somewhat rare (0.5% of women who have had the procedure could get pregnant again)
Isn't there a chance vasectomies don't take either?
It's a lot easier to double check in men.
It's almost 100% because "proper usage" includes periodic checks.
But the same thing can happen with vasectomies so why isn't it showing anything there?
Vasectomies are a lot easier to double check. A woman released 1 egg a month. A man released a LOT of swimmers every shot. Go in a cup and check for swimmers.
Yeah sure but that's not what sterilisation means. To be sterile means you're not making any gametes whatsoever, which typically means a complete removal of the gonads (ie an oophrectomy or orchidectomy). Otherwise you're not sterile, you're just infertile.
Guessing it's more female "sterilization"
I remember hearing that in rare cases, getting their tubes tied can actually heal.
OK that’s great and everything and hurrah for the snipped, V for Victory yadda yadda…
But really, a chart on contraception made by Dr. Dick Beatty?!
I’m crying over here
I don't get it. Does that mean on average a couple using condoms for 10 years will be pregnant 1.5 times?
The only birth control that is 100% effective is having HOT GAY SEX™
Alternatively become a Buddhist monk and hit yourself in the balls until you're infertile, I guess
And there I was, thinking my vagina must be broken because I somehow still haven't got my girlfriend pregnant 🤦♀️
Go back to the dark ages already