Ok, is aking a question in a "Women's Issues" part of a forum not research. Of course I could have googled it and then come across some biased websites. I dont see what's the big deal. People use yahoo answers (
Yahoo! Answers - Home ) all the time. I'm sure they're not bashed for asking questions.
Right now im 21 and i've been through depo (of course), nuvaring, the copper IUD and now im on Paraguard (hormonal IUD) so i've done quite abit exploring since I started this thread. I get the feeling that many of you prefer that I do "self exploration" but would you really reccomend to someone that they really
have unprotected sex and "find out" if it works as a method of birth control? Am I really the ignorant one now?
scorpioslut and Symphonic I don't think you quite understand. At 12 or 13 years old when you get a period I was very impressionable. I remember soaking every piece of information up that day. I remember he asking me "Do you know what this means?" and of course I said yeah thinking that it means im almost grown and I got the biggest shock of my life when she said "this means you can have babies now". I couldn't believe it. Nobody had ever told me this! I remember he telling me that after the pad gets some blood on it i'll change it so imagine what she was thinking when 5 minutes later im walking to the bathroom with a pad in my hand. She said "where the hell are you going?" and I explained that there was blood on my tampon in which she said "no, you gotta keep it on for a while". I couldn't believe it. I didn't sit down for two hours in fear it might get everywhere.
What im trying to say is that there are some things you just believe that older people tell you. My grandmother said gay people go to hell. That doesn't mean I had to participate in lesbian acts and "self explore" for her beliefs to stay with me for a long time. It wasn't until I was 17 or 18 that I interpreted the bible in my own way. Whether any of you like it parents do shape their childrens views. Most of the stuff I didnt even learn from schools, the government or adults but rather from my peers. The guys would giggle and laugh when I didn't know what certain words mean. They would then explain it to me. If they had told me I couldn't get pregnant my first time having sex I would have believed them but thank goodness the school is there to corrects these myths.
You guys take things so seriously. Also the first time I had sex on my period was this July with my looser fuck buddy. It creaped the hell out of him. Everything was fine until he pulled out to see about 3 oz of blood pour out afterward. Even I was scared by the amount of blood