I think the trick is encouraging teens to know when they are emotionally ready rather than fall for peer pressure or feeling like “everyone’s doing it”.

I wanted to have sex in HS. I was an outsider because I wouldn’t and I was horny as hell. But I knew there was no way I was emotionally ready for it. I was helped by the fact that I lived in a small town and knew exactly what would happen if I slept with any of the guys sniffing around me. I knew the minute I did, they’d drop me like a hot potato and move on to the next “challenge”.

The microscope method is similar to monitoring mucus and body temperature. Lick a slide first thing in the morning, and check it when it dries. Just before you ovulate the patter goes all ferny.

As many people have said, this is not the rhythm method. It’s being aware of what your body is doing. I plan to teach this to my daughter when she’s old enough, even though I will encourage her to use condoms should she choose to have sex. I think the trick is encouraging teens to know when they are emotionally ready rather than fall for peer pressure or feeling like “everyone’s doing it”.

I’ve recommended TCYOF to my sisters-in-law when they were trying to conceive and it worked within about 2 months.

I had no idea about almost everything in the book – and I had what was considered a very progressive sex ed and biology class. I want to buy this book for every woman I know.

I never planned to use FAM as a birth control method, but I have a friend who uses it with great success. It’s quite frankly the only method that has ever worked for them – even a vasectomy didn’t work.

Funny how that old saw is appropriate for 90% of stories about crazy conservatives.

Why, nothing at all! Don’t you realise that all women secretly long to have babies? Even if they say they don’t? So we’re actually doing them a favor!
I do love the idea the idea that giving people information that vaguely pertains to sex will automatically cause them to have sex, and the attached assumption that no teenager could POSSIBLY want to have sex without being prompted. Apparently these people sprang from the womb as adults and never experienced adolescence.

Depending on how thoroughly things are explained in this book, I expect many teenagers are plenty smart enough to figure out what signs mean fertility and how to avoid pregnancy based on that. I got the impression from the article that the authors really do think teenagers are just too dumb to figure it out.

After considering using FAM to avoid conception, I did, however, decide to return to the pill until we TTC — I’m waaaaay too horny during ovulation, and find myself having fantasy-world thoughts of wanting another baby NOW. Biology’s a strong thing.

Anyway, a book that explains the cycles more clearly, without encouraging kids to use FAM as their b/c sounds fantastic to me. My daughter’s only 2-1/2, but by the time she’s approaching puberty, I’m sure we’ll buy the fourth/fifth/whatever revision of this book.

I actually think this would be a interesting thing to chart in a biology class for a month.

No fucking way. It’s invasive and embarassing (having every teenage boy in the room knowing when you’re bleeding?) and those poor girls who don’t identify as girls would probably rather dig a hole and die in it than celebrate their baby-making parts.