As a sexually active seventeen year old girl, I feel my own two cents are needed. I've been on the pill for over a year, though when I began it was merely to remedy cramps and other menstrual issues. The genuine truth, teenage girls DO NOT forget to take their pill. EVER. I have an astounding number of friends who are also on the pill who just flat out do not forget. In my own year of using the pill, I have forget once that I can recollect. I would say maybe twice at the most. I am fully responsible for refilling my prescription every month, also. Another truth, girls that are on the pill don't use condoms. They just don't. Generally, they know their partner's history, and usually the history is abysmal to nonexistent, so STDs don't really haunt us. (Another reason is mainly because condoms are reealllyyy expensive.) The final truth, is that teenage girls don't talk to their parents about their sex lives. Our parents aren't lovingly sitting us down for "the talk", or answering our questions, or anything like that at all. We're getting free birth control and Plan B from Planned Parenthood. We're also getting tested, just in case.
I'm seventeen years old, I have been taking oral contraceptives for the past year, I have been sexually active for six months, I have tested negative for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea , I have used a condom once, I have had sex nearly thirty times. I am not considered sexually promiscuous by my peers. This is reality.
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As a sexually active seventeen year old girl, I feel my own two cents are needed. I've been on the pill for over a year, though when I began it was merely to remedy cramps and other menstrual issues. The genuine truth, teenage girls DO NOT forget to take their pill. EVER. I have an astounding number of friends who are also on the pill who just flat out do not forget. In my own year of using the pill, I have forget once that I can recollect. I would say maybe twice at the most. I am fully responsible for refilling my prescription every month, also. Another truth, girls that are on the pill don't use condoms. They just don't. Generally, they know their partner's history, and usually the history is abysmal to nonexistent, so STDs don't really haunt us. (Another reason is mainly because condoms are reealllyyy expensive.) The final truth, is that teenage girls don't talk to their parents about their sex lives. Our parents aren't lovingly sitting us down for "the talk", or answering our questions, or anything like that at all. We're getting free birth control and Plan B from Planned Parenthood. We're also getting tested, just in case.
November 26, 2009 - 11:47pmI'm seventeen years old, I have been taking oral contraceptives for the past year, I have been sexually active for six months, I have tested negative for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea , I have used a condom once, I have had sex nearly thirty times. I am not considered sexually promiscuous by my peers. This is reality.
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