Oh my god I’ve got so many 😭
I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe. I remember holding a presentation in grade school about AIDS, but that was half made by my grandma and I barely understood what I was reading from my papers.
I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe.
I basically had my sex ed delayed a year or two from the other students because as a fourth grader I would mostly just tune out when the teacher started talking.
at 17yo I thought my circumcision scar was a birthmark and I didn’t know you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy
parents, please tell your kids where babies come from and what all their parts are supposed to do, and don’t circumcise them either
you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy
Not with modern medicine!
No with your partner doofus
How do you know their partner is a doofus?
Are you saying it’s not like a slot machine and pays out like 6 kids when you win?
Well, it can…
But is that really winning?
I’d say that’s on the wrong side of the fun-to-responsibility ratio.
Yeah I didn’t really connect the dots that my penis had been altered. I thought my friend had the weird penis. Turns out his is the way it’s supposed to be.
I learned in college (from my nurse girlfriend) that if a girl is taking antibiotics that it invalidates her birth control pills for the month and you need to use condoms until after her period.
Spread the word, brothers.
That’s not really true.
Sure it’s true for rifampicin and rifabutin (and maybe one more similar one). But those are used to treat TB.
All the standard ones you’d take are fine for birth control.
Edit: Thanks to some people who are more knowledgeable than me on the topic, there are some others, or secondary effects you should consider.
Moral of the story: if in doubt ALWAYS use more contraception. Best to be safe out there.
It has two components. While Rifampicin and Rifabutin (and Penicillin,Amoxi and a few others) are directly showing effects on the contraceptives drugs effects, there is another factor that shouldn’t be underestimated: ABs can and will cause digestive symptoms, fastening gastric passage and that alone is known to reduce the effectiveness of hormonal contraceptives countless times.
That is true. I didn’t think of it from that angle. I haven’t read too much into that. But now I will. Thanks for the info.
For the record, always use secondary contraception if you’re in doubt. I should have said that in my first post.
According to Mayo Clinic, penicillin and amoxicillin also can make birth control less effective. But most other sources agree with you. I wonder if it’s relatively new information that those antibiotics don’t affect it or what.
It’s easier to tell people to just use a rubber when on antibiotics rathern than explain to them that it’s only for some unpronounceable substances for most of the population and have them memorize a list of substances for which it’s safe to go on as usual - azithromycin is safe, amoxicillin is not. They may sound fairly similar to a layman.
It’s because some substances (in this case, antibiotics) mess with the units in your body that process them and prepare them for excretion. They may inhibit or induce them, but these units process a whole load of other stuff. Including birth control, which can lead to less activity from the birth control pills because they’re inactivated quicker (in case of induction) or the biotransformation to the active form is slower (in case of inhibition, for prodrugs that are inactive as is, but have active metabolites, no idea if this is the case for birth control though).
A similar thing happens with alcohol, for example, which is why you should always be honest with exactly how much alcohol you drink or what other drugs you take when talking to an anaesthesiologist, or any doctor prescribing you any sort of medicine, lest you risk ineffective anaesthesia or treatment (the first one is worse imo).
100 % agreed. I was just being pedantic I guess. Sorry for that.
I really should have said ALWAYS use more contraception if you’re unsure about anything. Best to be safe.
Good thing about this is now I have some interesting things to read up on.
It may be? I found a few references from like 2019, but as someone else posted above, there’s a lot more to consider than just the antibiotic interfering with the birth control. Digestive tract things. Definitely take a look at the post I’m referring to.
But as I SHOULD have said in my original post, ALWAYS use more methods of contraception if you’re unsure. Best to be safe.
That’s how my parents got pregnant with me! Thanks, antibiotics.
We talk a lot about lives saved by antibiotics but not about lives made by them lol
Holy shit didn’t know this. Thanks
Oh wow, this really should be common knowledge. Thanks for enlightening me.
Hey, this explains my daughter’s birth, 13 years after the fact!
well my sex ed consisted of a man who would later that year get fired for hitting a student telling us that premarital sex will result in pregnancy and then having us perform a play I can only describe as racially charged about the subject
after being fired he went on to become a far right politician
This comment is quite a wild ride.
Lucky guy. A lot of people gave him money for his views.
After being fired he went on to become a far right politician.
Sigh… Of course he did… It’s not even surprising anymore…
Didn’t realize that being ace was a thing, people keep assuring me that sexual attraction “naturally” happened
What does Ace mean, if you don’t mind me asking?
It’s short for asexual, which is a spectrum of not feeling sexual attraction. Personally I still have a sex drive, and seek out relationships, but I really don’t feel sexual attraction to people, I have to like them for other reasons. I even routinely go on dates with friends who are poly- but it’s just to be friends.
I even routinely go on dates with friends who are poly- but it’s just to be friends.
Isn’t that just going to dinner with friends
I mean one on one, to most outside observers that looks like a date. I’ve run into problems before I really figured things out when I was trying to be friends with people, only to have enraged exes jumping to all sorts of conclusions.
Well, for most people it does
I learned way too late about the fertility cycle of my female reproductive organs. What, I can feel my cervix, if I just reach into my vagina deep enough?! And oh, so during my fertile days, my vulva will get slippery, my cervix is soft like my earlobe, and my cervical mucus becomes stretchy like egg white?! Also, my body temperature rises?! And on the not-so-fertile days, my cervix is closed, feels harder (like the tip of my nose), and none or less mucus. That’s wild, so much to learn about a body that I thought I knew!
(You can use these observations to contracept or to become pregnant, but if you do, please inform yourself about Natural Family Planning (NFP) or the sympto-thermal method. It takes a routine and some experience for it to be reliable, but once you get the hang of it, it is awesome!)
Also, natural family planning should only be used on fully developed females. If you’re still developing, such as teenage years, they’re not reliable.
You just made everyone touch their tip of their nose
Haha, just like that “you can’t lick your elbow” :D
One teacher allowed girls bathroom breaks without a question but not guys and we thought it was bc girls can’t hold pee in since they don’t have dicks.
If you can’t tell sex ed doesnt exist in this part of the world
Hell that’s not even sex ed but anatomy ig
That’s not a sex ed thing, that’s just blatant misandry. So what if boys don’t get periods, they still have to pee!
Wait, what’s the reason?
Every so often, girls need to release evil demons within them or else they’ll be consumed by hellfire. Everybody knows this.
This explains everything. The reason I never saw her after the first date is because she was consumed by evil demons ☹️
Menstruation.
Then why is it called menstruation and not womenstruation? (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Why are they called women and not wowomen?
Oh that! I thought it was still something about pee I don’t know because of the context 😄
Period flow can happen without warning, and even if there is a warning, it’s not usually something that girls are comfortable enough with to want to announce the reason in front of a classroom.
It’s not like you want to announce diarrhea either
Eh depends on how explosive it is, those nearby may deserve a warning
I don’t get diarrhea every 4 weeks. Do you?
Lucky you not having IBD or Crohns
Yep… I was about to say “Oh just watch me try not to!”
No it’s more frequent than that
Maybe lay off the Arby’s for a while.
What’s Arby
My school has Taco Tuesdays
What the hell do they put in those tacos, exactly
“Graduated” seniors
I liked your comment myself, but I wished period was more normalized and not seeing as something “disgusting” or “embarrassing”
well the pee is stored in the balls, girls don’t have that extra reservoir
New theory dropped: pee is stored in the dick
Don’t be silly. It’s because most of them don’t have balls, the place where pee is stored, so it goes right through them
Believed this until I was like 16 and so did everyone else in our school.
A girl did anal and got pregnant and since it was anal that got her pregnant she was gonna poop out the baby. Funny thing is I was part of the group conversation that started this rumor and STILL we all believed it.
Ah, religious schools… they’re such a blessing.
Apparently they’re called “butt babies” according to James Gunn’s Peacemaker.
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That is hilarious!
since it was anal that got her pregnant
Umm…you might still be missing some sex ed info.
It is technically possible if semen gets out/around the anus and then gets accidentally wiped towards the labia.
I think there was actually some fringe case where it happened due to some internal deformity.
I had a goth girlfriend who unexpectedly turned into a conservative Christian and wanted to stay a virgin. I was a horny teen and was “well what about anal” and she said oh no, she could get pregnant because of seepage
I love this
Lol thats from a thought from the perspective of teen me
I think millions of children will now have this misconception thanks to
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Not my info but this year a classmate confided in me the following:
“it took an embarrassingly long time to realize that men have multiple holes on their penis”.
I thought she was joking but she was dead serious, (she was from a very conservative family to put it mildly and had been withheld from sex-ed their entire life). For some reason they insisted arguing about it with me and the other guy present.
I was 22 and she was 21.
Well, if you are not circumcised then you have a hole in your foreskin (when it is not retracted), and you also have the hole in the glans. So, multiple holes.
But that’s a serial hole, not a parallel hole?
Coaxial hole
Ah, the old for-loophole peehole !
That’s very useful if you want to attach an old school printer or mouse to your penis.
At first I read that as an old printer from a school, and thought that was a very weird thing to want, but then I realised you meant a printer that was old school, and it all suddenly made sense to me!
Don’t kink shame me bro.
I checked my dick right now, and I’m only counting one hole. What am I not finding?
Where did she think the other hole was
I think the idea was two holes right near each other on the head, one for piss and one for cum lol
Skinflute.
She may have confused it for female anatomy? I had a similar argument with a young woman about this.
…women have two holes, too. One for pee and one for all the vaginally discharges.
idk if ‘embarassingly’ late, but, I assumed that doggy style was always anal, and vaginal sex was missionary for a while lol.
I meannnnnn I’m pretty sure my mom still thinks this. When I was a late teen / young adult, we watched the movie “Quest for fire” together.
When one of the protagonists starts having sex with one of the women, doggy style, my mom said “Well they won’t get very strong children doing it this way”. An idiom in French Canada to say conception won’t happen.
Tu le dis comment en français ?
“Ça fera pas des enfants forts”.
If you’re on hormonal birth control, you don’t need to have monthly bleeding cycles. The sugar pill part of most hormonal birth control pills, was added so as to not scare people when their bleeding disappeared.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/birth-control/in-depth/womens-health/art-20044044
I learned this so late…
Sometimes they recommend you go three months without a period. Apparently it can be healthier. And the body doesn’t really know any better after you’ve got used to it.
yup! I have endometriosis and was on the pill continuously ages 15-18. It doesn’t work out for everybody, but it was a lifesaver for me. Debilitating symptoms went bye bye, and pretty soon I was back in school (after a few months’ absence).
The primary purpose of the sugar pill is to maintain the habit of taking a pill daily.
The pill works by tricking the body into thinking you’re pregnant. There is no reason why you could not take the pill (with hormones in it) for nine months straight.
The Team that Invented the Birth Control Pill - The Atlantic
He told Rock to have his patients stop taking the pills for five days each month. Their hormone levels would return to normal, their symptoms would ease, and they would have their periods. Rock liked the idea. It would make the pill seem more natural, like a scientific version of the rhythm method.
So yes, your right, the sugar pill was added to help people count the 5 days of no hormones correctly.
But the only reason for the 5 day hormone gap in the initial recommendations was to make users feel more natural, and not think they were pregnant.
Though the history is fascinating, always worth a read!
My gf does this, but eventually starts bleeding despite the continued (non-sugar) pills. Usually takes several months of skipping the sugar pills.
She then stops taking them, has a normal cycle or two to reset things as it were and starts over.We’re also still young enough that no doc agrees on sterilization, but old enough to know we’re never changing our minds.
Yeah, as i posted above, im a medical interpreter and yeah, birth control methods, not only hormonal, will stop menstruation, and that is normal. They actually prescribe birth control pills to women that bleed too much and have iron deficiencies because of it.
Edit: As an anecdote, i went out for a time with a girl that told me that she took birth control pills because her period was too heavy, and that once she forgot to take them and that she was bleeding for 20 minutes in the shower, and that she was very scared. Femininity goes hard sometimes I guess lol.
Well … TIL.
Also, the pill does sometimes fail. Rarely if you do things perfectly (99% succes), but since we’re all human, things rarely go perfectly (91% succes rate in real life). If you normally have a cycle of bleeding once a month, you have a nice solid clue to go take a pregnancy test when you don’t bleed once a month.
But yeah, you don’t really HAVE to. My next period is planned for early 2026.
According to my schedule Estrus we are going to have to push you back. We’ll call you when times available.
Not sex related, but I learned it in sex ed. Most males do not have a big depression in their chest. Turns out that the males in my family happened to have a condition known as Pectus Excavatum.
I have that (sort of)
Some pictures if you search that look way worse than I have it. But for example it impacts my ability to run for a long time because I will get side-stich faster
Are you related to Ludwig Ahgren? Lmao
Well, lots of males’ chest depression is in their feelings.
I’m friends with a lady who has the opposite condition: her sternum protrudes.
I had to explain to a girl that no, we should not have sex while you have a UTI. She was in her mid 30’s.
Time to bust out the cranberry juice
Worked in an ED/still work as a paramedic occasionally.
You don’t want to know how many times I had to explain this shit to a grown woman, sometimes 30y older than me.
Sometimes you’re just in the zone man. Consequences be damned (pls dont do this this is not real advice)
Obviously it’s a bad idea but why? ELI5 lol
So if one partner has a UTI, the other partner could get the UTI (even asymptomatically) and they could keep reinfecting each other in a hilarious game of tag.
Or if one partner has multiple partner they could spread the UTI around, even if they are asymptomatic.
In addition to that, it can introduce bacteria, bodily fluids, etc to the infected area and make it worse.
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That pee is stored in the balls
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I thought chocolatemilk came from brown cows 😭
Weirdly sexual
Suspicious stew…
