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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby
And GusGus and I have been having unprotected sex for six years and are STILL not pregnant. 
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Yeah, tell me about it. In my world, BC makes you preggers and lack of BC makes you unable to get pregnant. Whatever.
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Originally Posted by GD
Yes, but Prudence's point was that the 1:25 figure is 4 times the expected pregnency rate of 1%. Her assumption was that that meant that a huge number of people were taking no precautions. In reality, a 4% failure rate is pretty close to (or possibly even less common) what's expected based on most estimates of the rate of improper use of contraception (e.g. forgetting to take today's pill, or not knowing how to put a freaking rubber on correctly). So the high number probably doesn't indicate a particularly large rate of people not protecting themselves as she first assumed.
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Yeah, I loved these types of "facts" when I was slutting it. I would glom on to them like they were gold - until almost everyone I knew either go a disease or got pregnant. Now, years later, I see just how stupid I was to depend on those "facts".