One of the main reasons we don't teach young girls about birth control (and give them access for free) is that we believe contraception makes you a slut. Fear of pregnancy and the slut stigma are here to keep young women chaste. WRONG.
9,256 young women between the ages of 14 and 45 were given free birth control (condoms, the pill and vaginal rings) by the Contraception Choice Project. What they found was that women didn't have more sex partners because they had birth control in place BUT they had fewer unwanted pregnancies. STD transmission rates remained the same.
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