Rhythm method

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>At 11:44 AM 06/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Several thousand women in 14 countries currently use
>>the Standard Days Method and CycleBeads. Plans to
>>manufacture and distribute CycleBeads in numerous
>>countries, including the United States, are currently
>>underway. More information about the Standard Days
>>Method and CycleBeads can be found at www.irh.org.
>
>I've used the rhythm method (combined with a diaphragm on fertile 
>days) for twenty years, and I've batted 100% (non-pregnancy). This 
>is not because I am not fertile: when I wanted to have kids, I did.
>
>However, I should mention one big caveat: they have done studies on 
>male/female affinity and its effect on ovulation and they found that 
>women's ovulatory cycles can be severely disrupted if they happen to 
>be with a man that they are extremely pheromonically attracted to. 
>In other words, if the underwear of the guy you happen to be 
>sleeping with smells like a spring meadow to you, use your birth 
>control method every day:)
>
>Sorry I can't cite chapter and verse on the studies. I heard about 
>it on a long talk show on public radio a few years ago.
>
>Joanna

I'd think that the most meritorious contraception is a combo of 
condoms and abortion (as a backup when condoms fail).  Condoms are 
good because they serve to protect you from STDs, unlike the pill, 
diaphragm, the rhythm method, etc.  Condoms don't have negative 
side-effects on women's bodies that the pill, Norplant, Depo-Provera, 
etc. may have either.
-- 
Yoshie

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