As longtime readers (and friends) know, I can be tremendously boring. Fortunately, my readers (and friends) are plenty funny. Writes my buddy Tina, “Read a news article today. I don’t know if I’d believe this particular advocate. . .”
A self-inserted vaginal ring that protects from pregnancy for three weeks straight goes on sale in Australia from Tuesday.
The ring can be removed for up to three hours at a time but specialists say it’s better that women get into the habit of leaving it in.
“NuvaRing can be left in during sex and most guys won’t even notice that it’s there,” said GP and reproductive health advocate Dr Sally Cockburn.
I’m not sure I should be commenting on this, but here goes ….
FYI, the “ring” was the preferred and most popular female contraceptive device in Israel in the early 1960’s –
however, when we inquired about it in the UK and USA in 1965, the experts (i.e. Planned Parenthood, etc.) hadn’t even heard of it – go figure!! –
(if you want confirmation of my comments, check with AR) –
I DEFINITELY want to spend time discussing contraception with my parents!
I seem to recall a phrase once from an article by Robert Hughes referring to the “exquisitely named Dick Armey” in reference to some kerfuffle in Congress about gay rights. I wonder if Dr. Sally has received other comments about her commentary…
Apparently, she’s famous.
http://www.drfeelgood.com.au/about%20Dr%20Feelgood.htm
hey Gil – you don’t need to discuss contraception with your parents (“not that there’s anything wrong with that”) – I just wanted to make the point that it’s taken the rest of the world more than 42 years to catch up with Israel ….
There’s a local very well known gay and lesbian rights advocate here called Gay Lemon. I’d better make sure I don’t name my kid Psycopathic Killer or Rocket Scientist. It’s not right to pigeonhole them into a career from birth.
hey Gil, I know you and your gentle readers are hung up (wrong expression perhaps) about Dr. Sally’s last name, but I do have a final piece of info/trivia/history about the contraceptive ring …….
it is actually something that the Bedouins used for their camels on their extended caravan treks a couple of THOUSAND years ago – they figured out (without Harvard Med,Sch. degrees) that inserting some kind of foreign object inside the female camels will avoid having to worry about baby camels while “on the road” – how they figured it out is anybody’s guess, but it seems that a lot of good stuff emanated from the Middle East –
OK, that’s my last word EVER on contraception – for humans or camels!!
I don’t give a fig about — oh, wait. . .