STI protection While birth control pills are effective at preventing an unplanned pregnancy, condoms are the only method that can protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
The bottom line is that condoms provide protection against STI's (sexually transmitted infections) in addition to preventing pregnancy. Birth control pills only prevent pregnancy.
Contraceptives that are more than 99% effective:
intrauterine system, or IUS (up to 5 years) intrauterine device, or IUD, also called the coil (up to 5 to 10 years) female sterilisation (permanent) male sterilisation or vasectomy (permanent)
When you use the birth control pill correctly, it gives you really great protection against pregnancy — even if semen (cum) gets into the vagina. If you use it perfectly, the pill is 99% effective.
The pill works by preventing ovulation, which means that there's no egg for sperm to fertilize if it gets inside your vagina. So to answer your question, if you're on the pill, you're protected from pregnancy, even if semen gets in your vagina.
I'm on the pill. Does my guy still need to pull out when we don't use a condom? In this case, your primary birth control method should offer up enough protection. "The pill is already approximately 99 percent effective when taken correctly," says Alyssa Dweck, MD, coauthor of V is For Vagina.
When used correctly every time you have sex, male condoms are 98% effective. This means 2 out of 100 people will become pregnant in 1 year when male condoms are used as contraception.
Condoms don't just help prevent pregnancy — they also help protect you from STDs, which the pill doesn't do. So why add the birth control pill (or another kind of birth control like the IUD or implant) into the mix? For one thing, using the pill and a condom together means you're super protected against pregnancy.
The pull-out method is about 80% effective. About one in five people who rely on the pull-out method for birth control become pregnant.
Pulling out isn't a very reliable way to prevent pregnancy. It works about 78% of the time, which means that over a year of using this method, 22 out of 100 women -- about 1 in 5 -- would get pregnant. By comparison, male condoms are 98% effective when used correctly every time.
If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they're 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren't perfect, so in real life condoms are about 87% effective — that means about 13 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year.
Contact your health care provider as soon as possible if you're taking combination birth control pills and have: Belly pain, cramping and vomiting. Chest pain, coughing and trouble breathing. New or worsening headaches, difficulty speaking, confusion, blurred vision, or loss of vision.
The most common side effects are spotting or bleeding between periods (this is more common with progestin-only pills), sore breasts, nausea, or headaches. But these usually go away after 2 or 3 months, and they don't happen to everyone who takes the pill.
Using hormonal birth control is safe for as long as you need, provided that a doctor has given the okay. People should discuss their individual needs and risk factors with a doctor when deciding whether to stay on hormonal contraception for an extended period.
The most common reason for failure, besides not using a condom every time, is that the condom breaks or partially or completely slips off the penis. Slippage occurs more often than breakage, usually when a condom is too large. Use emergency contraception as a backup if a condom breaks or slips off.
Sperm can't pass through a condom. The only way that could happen is if the condom breaks or if it has a hole in it. Otherwise, sperm stays trapped inside the condom. That's why condoms are so good at preventing pregnancy.
Sperm can live inside the female body for up to five days. 3 So even if you do not ovulate for another four days after having sex, sperm could still be living inside you that can fertilize your egg when it is released.
Pregnancy can happen if any semen gets in your vagina or on your vulva. So the best way to make the pull out method effective is to use it with another type of birth control (like the ring, pill, or condoms). This way, if there's a slip up, you're still protected. Accidents happen.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the chance of conceiving from pre-cum is about 20% if you're using the withdrawal method. So, while it's low risk, it's not impossible.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the pill is 99.7% effective with perfect use. This means that fewer than 1 in 100 people who take the pill may become pregnant in 1 year.
For most people, being on birth control long term is safe. Birth control can lower your risk for some cancers and raise your risk for others. It can cause blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes — but the risks are small. Being on birth control doesn't make it harder to become pregnant once you stop it.
The most straightforward way is to wash the vaginal area gently with warm water. The American Sexual Health Association (ASHA) recommend using mild, unscented soap around the vaginal area. It is best to avoid perfumed soaps as these can cause irritation by disturbing the pH level of the vagina.
There's no way to know when there is or isn't sperm in pre-cum — that's one reason why the withdrawal method (pulling out) isn't the best at preventing pregnancy, even if they pull out before they ejaculate (cum). If you want to prevent pregnancy, put on a condom before your penis and vagina touch.
If you use withdrawal for birth control, it's a good idea to keep emergency contraception (aka the morning-after pill) around, just in case semen (cum) gets in or near your vagina. Emergency contraception can prevent pregnancy for up to 5 days after unprotected sex.