Word: diaphragmic
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...choose a contraceptive these days face a frustrating task. The list of safe, reliable alternatives seems to keep getting shorter. Driven by fears about adverse side effects, many women scrapped first the Pill, then the intrauterine device. Large numbers found themselves forced back to a centuries-old method, the diaphragm. Last week the Food and Drug Administration added a new option by approving the marketing of another ancient birth-control device, the cervical...
...young daughter; he won't tell her he has just lost his job. This sweet, slightly strained film finds knowing laughs in all the frustrations of modern romance. The couple must proclaim themselves free of herpes and AIDS before easing into bed, she with her diaphragm, he with his condom (or is it hers?). They both know that in an age of erotic malaise, the mating dance is often an audition for a show that gets rotten reviews and closes on opening night. As O'Toole sighs, when her sister tells her to have fun, "Dating...
...following speaker, Bob Isaacson, talked about basic ventriloquism, going over the diaphragm and the hard palate, the teeth and the tongue. You can say the letter d without moving your lips, but you cannot say the letter b. Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?" Substituting a barely perceptible th sound, Isaacson said "Boston baked beans" without moving his lips, and you could have sworn you heard the b's. People scribbled...
...first contraceptive when she was a young adult in the early 1970s. But after five years, news of the Pill's potentially harmful side effects made her switch to an intrauterine device. Soon after, she suffered severe menstrual cramps and a pelvic infection. Issler eventually turned to the diaphragm, but she found its use messy and inhibiting. Now 33 and living in North Hollywood, Calif., the working mother of one relies uneasily on a combination of the rhythm method and the condom. "Birth control is a very important decision, but also a very frustrating one," she says. "The options...
...products have been pulled off the market," notes Dr. Louise Tyrer of Planned Parenthood. "Now superior products are being abandoned because of high insurance costs." The IUD has a failure rate of only 5% in the first year of use, she points out, in contrast to 19% for the diaphragm, l7% to 24% for sponges, 18% for spermicidal foams and jellies and 10% for condoms. But, observes Dr. Bruce Stadel of the National Institutes of Health, "a pharmaceutical company would have to be altruistic to the point of suicidal to market an IUD today...