Sources used were Bacchus: Smarter Sex, based on the U.S. Planned Parenthood and on Contraception: an Australian clinical practice handbook. (2006), pp 17-18. These were used because they provided charts, as distinct from the others which just yabbered on.This started as a quiz, believe it or not - which contraceptive method is the most effective , 2nd, 3rd etc. Then two things happened:
1] I realized that many, particularly Catholics, Americans or both, were not going to see the light side of contraception; and
2] I started not to see the light side myself. As I waded through the stats, trying to collate them, I realized just how much effort goes into contraception and how far the reconstitution of society depends on contraception - plus one more thing:
3] When I saw that Planned Parenthood was behind it I baulked. This organization has some allegedly quite shady practices that I've met before and it's my right to personally be circumspect about their agenda, whatever my actual view on abortion and a woman's right to her own body.
Anyway, I'll still publish and be damned [as if you don't know all this already]. In each case, the percentage is the chance of getting pregnant again after use. The results from the two lists are listed separately and repeated so you can compare :
0% Abstinence
0.05% Norplant and Norplant-2
0.1% Etonogestrel implants LNG-IUD Mirena® (Hormonal IUD)
0.1% Etonogestrel implants Implanon™
0.1% Combined (estrogen and progestin)
0.1% LNg
0.15% Male sterilisation
0.15% Male Sterilization
0.3% Injectables Depo-Provera
0.5% Progestin Only
0.5% Tubal ligation (female sterilisation)
0.5% Female Sterilization
0.8% Etonogestrel implants Cu-IUD (Copper IUD)
0. 8% IUD Progesterone T 2 Copper T 380A
0.1-1% Injectables Lunelle
1% Ortho Evra (skin patch)
2% Nuvaring (vaginal ring)
2% Lactational amenorrhoea (LAM) when all three conditions below are met:
a. fully breastfeeding
b. <6>
c. amenorrhoea
3% Ovulation Method
3% Etonogestrel implants Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA)
5% Pill
8% Combined oral contraceptives (COC)
8% Combined hormonal vaginal ring NuvaRing®
8% Progestogen only pill (POP)
9% Calendar Method
14% Male Condom
15% Condoms - Male
16% Diaphragms (with spermicide)
19% Withdrawal
20% Sponge Women who have never given birth
20% Diaphragm
20% Cap Women who have never given birth
21% Female Condom
21% Condoms - Female
25% Periodic Abstinence
25% Fertility awareness based methods e.g. standard days method, symptothermal method
26% Spermicides
27% Withdrawal
29% Spermicide only
40% Sponge - Women who have given birth
40% Cap - Women who have given birth
85% Leaving it up to chance
Seems to me that the best methods are to either abstain or to have some horrid chemicals and implants inserted in you, bit s of metal or else be surgically operated upon. Ouch.
I can remember we were learning about contraception at school the same day the army came to do a recruitment/open day.
ReplyDeleteI can remeber out teacher was talking about the resistant power of the sperm to many forms of contraception- at which point a host of army vehicles rolled past the window- he continued 'There like those guys- they have a job to do, and they're gonna do it!'
Sex has had two billion years to get very efficient at the function it is designed for- and we all get caught out one way or the other.
Well, I think I said before that I once had to show a class how to put on a condom by putting one over a toothpaste tube [thanks to the wonderful PSHE curriculum] and I wonder if there are any ststistics on how useful that was? ! I dread to think. Abstinence may be the best method, but it would be a dull world if we were all able to carry it out.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised withdrawal works so well as it does... Surely they should have covered that up!
ReplyDeleteQuestion? What's the difference between Male Condom and Condoms - Male and how come they have a different statistic?
ReplyDeleteHigher failure rate than I would have expected.
Crushed - we all get caught out? Tell papa about it.
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes - hmmmm!
Gavin - it works the first you times and then wham.
JMB - interesting question.
jmb, there's also two categories of femidom
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