# Preferred Contraception
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 28, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801 "2001-11-28T22:44:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801/41 "2001-11-29T18:49:16Z")
I’m in the Depo camp. I used to be on the pill (Ortho-Novum 7/7/7) but the first two pills in the cycle would always make me sick. Now I’ve got the “shot up with hormones” thing going and it works well. Plus, it makes me very hungry for a few days after getting it…and any excuse to eat three dinners is a good excuse. And I haven’t had a period in a year and a half. Whoo!
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### Author:  [@Frumious\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumious_Bandersnatch)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801/42 "2001-11-29T19:05:51Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by featherlou \*
> \*\*We want to get one of us sterilized pretty soon; I’m 35, my fiance’s almost 33, and we have no interest in having kids. Our problem is that he is phobic of needles, and is dragging his feet on getting snipped. So, you guys that have had it done; anything you can say to help me convince my man to get it done?
> (Oh yeah, I had a laparoscopic procedure done for ovarian cysts a couple of years ago, which is apparently very similar to the tubal ligation surgery, and I don’t want to do that again if I don’t have to.)
> [/hijack] \*\*
featherlou,
It is really a simple procedure, often done in the doctors office.
## 1 Needle 2 Tugs on the gonads 3 Days without sex, and spending some time with an icepack 6 More weeks of fertility
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Lifetime of no-holds-barred, no-preparation-needed, anytime-anywhere sex.
In the Frumious world, it was an easy trade-off.
The day before, you get to shave his 'nads and give him three days worth of great sex to make up for his THREE WHOLE DAYS OF CELEBACY.
[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801/43 "2001-11-29T20:34:55Z")
**featherlou**
My boy got snipped with the relatively new “no scalpel” procedure, which results in less bleeding and swelling. Very, very minor surgery. On a par with wart removal. They’ll give you a valium if you need it.
There is one needle involved, but the one they used on **mischief-lover** was so thin that it bent like a hair, and he could barely feel it.
By contrast, I had an ovary removed laproscopically, and it cost me two weeks of pain. It’s not as minor as it sounds.
mischievous
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801/44 "2001-11-29T21:07:28Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by vanilla \*
> **Okay…
> My preferred type is abstinance.
> Luck also has worked in the past (thank God)**
Well, make up your mind! 😃
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preferred-contraception/95801/45 "2001-11-29T21:12:11Z")
I always tell people my wife and I use the Bathtub Method – I get in the bathtub, she gets in bed, and there’s no risk of pregnancy. 🙂
She loves it, but I’d rather try something else…
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