re: Is birth control really only 99% effective or is that more a safety barrier from lawsuits?

Baw you must not have a Big Dick if you haven’t busted condoms during sex. I’ve busted both Magnums and Magnum XL’s. That or you don’t know how to take a bawette to pound town properly.

I mean it’s RARE that two heterosexual people will use condoms if the female is on the pill. So I’d say it works pretty well. Even pull out method works pretty well all things considered.

A friend of mine got his wife pregnant while she was on the pill back in college. She was on an antibiotics and that is when I first heard that antibiotics can decrease the effectiveness of the pill.

The guy I bought my first boat from got his wife pregnant after she had a tubal ligation. When her doctor delivered by section the baby, he said the tubes had an inch separation between the snipped ends and he had no idea how she got pregnant.

Independent condom studies have found a percentage of them "leak". Much higher in the low-budget brands.

But the biggest risk is always improper use. We probably have all had condoms break. The question becomes did we do something to cause that (other than friction )

I’m not well-versed enough to cite facts/figures and recite the tables, but no, “99%” is not just a legal protection. I’m pretty certain if you review the data from all the trials seen here, you’ll find that pregnancies occurred in some of the women in the cohorts. The first study had over 16,000 women. It can be a little hard to wrap your head around how percentages work and are applied in statistics at the population level. For example, if there’s a 1% chance of a bad thing happening in a clinic that sees that thing 100 times a day, that means it’s a daily occurrence (basically, once you average out over time. It may happen 3 times in one day and you may go a week between episodes, but you see it essentially everyday). So when it comes to pregnancies per 100, 99% is pretty good. But in 16,000 people who want 0 babies between them, it’s 160 babies, which is quite a few more than zero.


Anyway, they follow women over time and have done so for a while. They think there are several “fair” ways to look at data, including “who took it? “Who took it the right way?” And “how many women who are prescribed this wind up pregnant within a year? (Or a lot use 11/13 months, 18 and 24 months for whatever reason).”


So, the “perfect use” numbers are actually derived from observation data (some of which has some estimates added back or subtracted away, and you then get to decide how valid you think the entire study is. Thanks, “science”). They are not just estimates based on, “what sounds good but won’t get us sued?” And on this topic, you have a pretty decent amount of
1) interest
2) research
3) fairly easily agreed upon outcomes

100% insinuates “fully guarantee every time”, and I don’t know any company that guarantees anything

Other than Men’s Wearhouse guaranteeing that customers like their their products

The odds go up if you use a condom, birth control pills and the withdrawal method.

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the withdrawal method.

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