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Is birth control really only 99% effective or is that more a safety barrier from lawsuits?
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:13 am
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:13 am
Anecdotally it’s 100% for over 20 years for me through condom or pill. Since I’ve been married, when we tried, my wife has gotten pregnant twice within 2-3 months of trying. But outside of trying, we’ve never had a scare. So I know we can get pregnant pretty easily, but we’ve never had a problem with BC and we are well in to the thousands of times we’ve been together.
It just seems far more effective than 1 in 100 might get pregnant “with perfect use” as they say in studies. It seems that if they said “100%” that every time someone got pregnant they would sue to try to prove the product was a failure costing a ton of cash. So is that 99% effectiveness just inserted as a litigious safety net?
It’s also convenient for people who “say” they used birth control and still got pregnant and that’s why they need “bail out” from being pregnant.
It just seems far more effective than 1 in 100 might get pregnant “with perfect use” as they say in studies. It seems that if they said “100%” that every time someone got pregnant they would sue to try to prove the product was a failure costing a ton of cash. So is that 99% effectiveness just inserted as a litigious safety net?
It’s also convenient for people who “say” they used birth control and still got pregnant and that’s why they need “bail out” from being pregnant.
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Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:14 am to Kujo
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:16 am to Kujo
You have too much time on your hands.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:16 am to Kujo
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we are well in to the thousands of times we’ve been together.
Playa.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:17 am to Havoc
It’s still just my wife every time. Reruns.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:19 am to Kujo
Of course they have to protect themselves. Even if it’s 100% effective if taken right. Bitches will screw up from time to time and drink or just forget to take it and when they get knocked up they’d be looking to sue.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:22 am to Kujo
I believe the 1% accounts for things like how someone may metabolize the medication and the presence of other conditions that may prevent absorption of the pill itself (think Gastro stuff and the meds you have to take for it).
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:22 am to Kujo
Reminds me of all the ads I've been seeing lately that say "Up to 100% effective treatment" for various medications, supplements, or cosmetics. Well... no shite.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:22 am to Kujo
To nut or not to nut, that is the question.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:23 am to Kujo
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but we’ve never had a problem with BC
I think you forgot a letter.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:24 am to Kujo
Son, you need a job.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:25 am to Kujo
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my wife has gotten pregnant twice within 2-3 months of trying
even when youre actively trying, you dont just get her pregnant on the first shot. So without BC or a condom, maybe a 1/10 chance during times when shes ovulating?
Of all the thousands of times youve had protected sex with her, im sure a lot of those times were not when she was able to get pregnant. Let's say only 1000 times she was able to get pregnant. And you have a 1/10 chance unprotected. So that would mean youre at about 100 times when things line up. It sounds like youre due for an accident.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:26 am to Kujo
Certain medications can interfere with BC, rendering it ineffective. That one part of the 99% labeling.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:30 am to Kujo
You ever heard of a fella named Jesus?
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:38 am to Kujo
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Anecdotally it’s 100% for over 20 years for me through condom or pill.
The phrase typically used is “less than 1 pregnancy per 100 women in a year” when used perfectly.
So if the odds of pregnancy are <1% each year, that means the odds are <~18% over a 20 year period.
In other words, there’s a >82% chance for birth control to be effective (when used correctly) over a 20 year period. So your anecdotal evidence is.. to be expected.
And that’s without factoring in things like genetics or interactions with other medications (which may skew the odds between different women/circumstances).
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:39 am to Stealth Matrix
Would be interesting if you could do a study at some Third World brothel where prostitution is legal. Do they get pregnant every other month with the number of dudes cumming & going?
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:47 am to Kujo
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we are well in to the thousands of times we’ve been together
Subtle brag , congrats on the sex
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:49 am to lostinbr
If there are 700K abortions per year, and 51% claim to have used BC and still got pregnant, what can you extrapolate from ~350K, against the odds, getting pregnant? Also factor in that 1/2 of abortions are to someone who had a previous abortion, so they represent multiple failures.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 10:50 am to Kujo
Yes, it’s really only 99% effective. As with any consumer product, failures can and do happen — even when used as directed by a married, substance-unimpaired couple. If you don’t believe me then I’ll introduce you to two of my children, Low-Dose Estrogen Pill and Broken Condom.
We were actually trying to conceive the other kid (Planned For Once), which was a novel experiment that lasted all of two weeks. This turned out to be the sum total of all the time we spent trying over 20+ years of marriage and 3 live births.
There are normal fertile couples, and then there’s that ultra-fertile subset that likely accounts for a significant proportion of the 1% annual “perfect use” failure rate. You’re welcome.
We were actually trying to conceive the other kid (Planned For Once), which was a novel experiment that lasted all of two weeks. This turned out to be the sum total of all the time we spent trying over 20+ years of marriage and 3 live births.
There are normal fertile couples, and then there’s that ultra-fertile subset that likely accounts for a significant proportion of the 1% annual “perfect use” failure rate. You’re welcome.
Posted on 12/29/23 at 11:04 am to Kujo
The disclaimer is for women who “forget” to take their pill so they can tell a man, “I don’t know how I got pregnant? I was on the pill!” 
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