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Final Prom Planning titles

By: Lori Kremen

The Rhythm Method Periodic Abstinence or Fertility Awareness Methods (FAMs)-a professional teaches a woman how to chart her menstrual cycle and to detect certain physical signs that help her predict "unsafe" days. She must abstain from intercourse (periodic abstinence) or use condoms (FAMs) during nine or more "unsafe" days. Includes:

• Checking temperature daily
• Checking cervical mucus daily
• Recording menstrual cycles on calendar

Effectiveness
75% to 99%. Not effective against sexually transmitted infections.

Reason not recommended for teens

These methods work best for women with very regular periods.

Teen women often have irregular periods.

Their partners may not wish to cooperate in using this method.

A teen's relationship may not be as stable or as committed as is necessary for developing the trust and cooperation necessary for effective use of this method.

Sterilization
An operation to keep sperm from joining egg tubal ligation-intended to permanently block a woman's tubes where sperm join the eggs.

Vasectomy-intended to permanently block a man's tubes that carry sperm

Effectiveness
98% to 99.4%. Not effective against sexually transmitted infections.

Reason not recommended for teens

Sterilization is intended to be permanent. It is not appropriate for anyone who may want to have a child in the future. Because people so often change their minds about having families, sterilization is usually discouraged for people under 30 who have not had children.

Withdrawal
The man pulls his penis out of the vagina before he ejaculates to keep sperm from joining egg. This can hardly even be called a method of contraception.

Effectiveness
81% to 96%. Not effective against sexually transmitted infections.
Reason not recommended for teens
Some men lack the experience and self-control to pull out in time.
Some men have been known to say they will pull out, and then they get so excited and carried away that they don't.
Some men cannot tell when they are going to ejaculate.
Some men ejaculate very quickly, before they realize it.
Before ejaculation, almost all men leak fluid that can cause pregnancy.