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Rhonda Issler chose the Pill as her 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...
What's left? Pill use dropped by nearly half in the decade since 1973, when the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 36.1% of married women between the ages of 15 and 44 preferred that method. This month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the Pill does not increase the chance of breast cancer, even in many high-risk groups. The Journal concluded that the dangers are so small that "the vast majority of users will experience only the benefits." But many women are wary. The most popular birth control is now sterilization. One-third of sexually...
...manufacturers a similar technique. A band of gelatin is placed around the waist of the capsule, where the two pieces overlap. That makes it tougher to open the casing without leaving a mark. But companies were slow to adopt the new technology, apparently because they thought that sealing the pill bottles was sufficient protection...
...Bulow? Come on, you want to read about the sleaze. You want to know about the big mansions in Newport, the drugs, the booze, the fast cars, the lifestyles of the rich and famous. What about Claus' many mistresses? What about those rumors that Sunny popped every pill in the book...
...played its usual dominant role. I rememberFinley remarking that "if Harvard can reduce thetime you think about the opposite sex from 90percent to 70 percent of your working hours, thenwe will have succeeded in reaching you something."Women generally were reluctant, not aggressive.This was P.P., pre-the-pill. No women spent thenight in our dorms, openly that is, and alas, oneof our class' great regrets is that we just missedthe sexual revolution. Not completely, thankgoodness, though the Cliffies were so bright manyfound them intimidating and headed happily for themore yielding fields of Pine Manor and Simmons...