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...first place, probably about 50% of the women who take the Morning After pill have not even conceived. So, half of the Radcliffe students undergo five days of sickness for no reason. For the others, menstrual extraction could be performed if women do not have their regular period following their unprotected intercourse. Though more time-consuming for doctors and less lucrative for drug companies, this method of post-coital birth control does not endanger the women with cancerous complications. Dr. Roy Hertz of Rockefeller University states: "Addition of any artificial estrogen beyond the natural estrogen produced in the body disturbs...
Although the Pill is the most effective method of contraception yet devised, it has not proved an unmixed blessing to all of the 8,000,000 American women who use it. Many women on the Pill experience minor problems such as nausea, headaches and breast tenderness; others have menstrual irregularity and are temporarily infertile after they give...
...season ended with the notorious "O" club initiation, a ritual for all first-year varsity lettermen. The initiates were ordered to crawl backward for fifty yards with "grapes up our asses," forced to drink menstrual fluid, and constantly shocked with battery-powered cattle prods. Coaches observed these activities to ensure that the proceedings "didn't get too sadistic...
...interview yesterday, Frankfort discussed contraceptive devices, radical mastectomy (surgical removal of the breast), menstrual period extaction devices (which can be used to end a period as soon as it begins, or terminate pregnancy) and "impersonal" and "rushed service" by doctors...
Certainly one of the greatest cultural anticlimaxes of modern times is the O.E.D.'s already much publicized decision to include all those dirty four-letter words. "We did not hold back," says Burchfield. "Various expressions and circumlocutions for sexual, excretory and menstrual functions are all treated at appropriate length...