Kinda cool. Yay science and body awareness and I'm all for women knowing their bodies but... uh, isn't this just a glorified (scheduled) abstinence answer?
I know a woman from a catholic family whose Catholic doctors refuse to prescribe birth control. I could see this being an 'answer' for her but then again, no. A woman whose husband or boyfriend (or rapist) wants it "now", is not going to be able to protect herself with this App.
It's a mathematical way for a women to take her own sexuality in her hands. And as it says in the article, you can always use condoms on "red" days. The pill is an amazing invention but there are many women who can't take it for health reasons, so this is a good method.
And if women are regularly raped by their husbands no method of contraception is going to be the solution to that.
I suppose if you look at it that way, you could say it's an abstinence solution, but there's nothing preventing people from continuing to have sex on the 'red' days - you just have to use a barrier/spermicidal method of contraceptive instead, and you can be pretty sure about that if you've been using the app right.
For people who don't like the feel of condoms, or who have health reasons or other objections to hormonal birth control, this seems like it'd work much better for them for preventing pregnancy.
If someone's partner isn't going to respect their 'no, not tonight', that's a bigger problem than potentially needing emergency contraceptives, and no method of birth control in the world is going to address that.
I was only on the pill for two years but I've noticed it's taken awhile for my cycle to be where it was before. It's interesting when you are trying for a baby how small the window really is.
That said, I wouldn't trust temps to prevent pregnancy over condoms
That is the first instance I've heard of a doc talking a guy out of a vasectomy vs. the hundreds of anecdotes of women refused tubal ligation. Stupid doctor!
This method, or at least a similar one with the daily temperature taking and tracking of what's happening with fluids, has been around for decades though. (It's called "Natural Family Planning") It's more popular with people trying TO get pregnant, and is Council of Catholic Bishops-approved. And LBR, if you have an irregular cycle or have a crazy stressful month that throws your cycle off, it can fail hard. There are a ton of apps already, though I wouldn't be at all surprised if hers is *better*.
Yeah I totally learned about this in my sex-ed class at my Catholic high school. And I used a basal body temp thermometer plus one of those apps when I was trying to get pregnant and it definitely helps, but if you want to use it for birth control you need to be really dedicated. There are so many factors that can throw your chart off. I definitely wouldn't put as much trust into this as, say, the pill or an IUD, but I can totally see why some women would prefer this method.
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I know a woman from a catholic family whose Catholic doctors refuse to prescribe birth control. I could see this being an 'answer' for her but then again, no. A woman whose husband or boyfriend (or rapist) wants it "now", is not going to be able to protect herself with this App.
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And if women are regularly raped by their husbands no method of contraception is going to be the solution to that.
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For people who don't like the feel of condoms, or who have health reasons or other objections to hormonal birth control, this seems like it'd work much better for them for preventing pregnancy.
If someone's partner isn't going to respect their 'no, not tonight', that's a bigger problem than potentially needing emergency contraceptives, and no method of birth control in the world is going to address that.
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That said, I wouldn't trust temps to prevent pregnancy over condoms
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Definitely A+ PR technique.
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