Why Are Millennials Ditching Hormonal Birth Control?

A recent wine-fueled conversation with a group of twentysomething-year-old friends revealed something I found to be shocking: Almost none of us were using any kind of hormonal contraception. Among a group of six women, only one was using the pill, one used—and swore by—her IUD, and the remaining four were firm proponents of the rhythm method, or the fertility awareness method, after struggling on regular contraception. For the uninitiated, this essentially involves abstaining from unprotected sex when you’re most fertile, but it takes a good deal of insight to work out exactly when that time is. Dr. Prudence Hall is a gynecological surgeon and practitioner turned advocate of regenerative ...

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