Study finds that pull out method is almost as safe as condoms

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feralkid

Lifer
Jan 28, 2002
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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

If you're smart you won't have sex with a condom on because...well it sucks.

Darwin contestant.

 

Onita

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Feb 24, 2004
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Originally posted by: feralkid
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

If you're smart you won't have sex with a condom on because...well it sucks.

Darwin contestant.

How is that anything close to being a Darwin contestant?
 
Dec 26, 2007
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Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

There are many side effects to BC.

Also, nobody said to use the pull out method with unsafe sex practices (i.e. non-protected vaginal/anal/oral intercourse with unsafe partners). It obviously doesn't protect against STD's, but the second primary concern about sex is pregnancies. This solely is discussing the second concern and doesn't address the first one.

L2R
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: Onita
Originally posted by: feralkid
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

If you're smart you won't have sex with a condom on because...well it sucks.

Darwin contestant.

How is that anything close to being a Darwin contestant?

Yeah, if anything, it's the opposite, because it makes him slightly more likely to reproduce.
 

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: NightDarker
I find that terribly hard to believe.

Especially that some people are so inept that condoms have a 17% failure rate.

I call bullshit on these statistics.

Until I see shit tons of journals coming out with results that ALL align with percentages under regular circumstances then I call shens on all stats.

Pull out is known for being the biggest boat of fail ever. A lot of you say, "Pull out works for me!" While it could be that you just have shitty sperm.
 

zerocool84

Lifer
Nov 11, 2004
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

There are many side effects to BC.

Also, nobody said to use the pull out method with unsafe sex practices (i.e. non-protected vaginal/anal/oral intercourse with unsafe partners). It obviously doesn't protect against STD's, but the second primary concern about sex is pregnancies. This solely is discussing the second concern and doesn't address the first one.

L2R

Unsafe practices is unprotected sex. Yes there are many side effect to BC. That's why if you are smart enough, you should find the right one for you. There are two very bad and possible side effects to not using birth control/condoms, pregnancy and std's. If you don't mind it then hey more power to you but I like to preach safe sex practices to everyone. Everyone is going to have sex whether we believe it or not and I don't want anyone to get sick or have an unwanted baby from it. The extremely small negatives to using BC and condoms are far outwieghed by the pluses they provide.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: NightDarker
I find that terribly hard to believe.

Especially that some people are so inept that condoms have a 17% failure rate.

I call bullshit on these statistics.

Until I see shit tons of journals coming out with results that ALL align with percentages under regular circumstances then I call shens on all stats.

Pull out is known for being the biggest boat of fail ever. A lot of you say, "Pull out works for me!" While it could be that you just have shitty sperm.

So you'll take anecdotal evidence that pulling out is "the biggest boat of fail ever" but discard anecdotal evidence that's backed up by a study?
 

feralkid

Lifer
Jan 28, 2002
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Onita
Originally posted by: feralkid
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: zerocool84
I just find it funny that everyone here is only worried about having a baby and not about STD's. Do you drive the girl to the clinic and wait until the results come back and get them directly from the doctor to see if she is clean??? Yea I highly doubt that. Then you guys are just going to say that you don't have sex with hookers or sluts well she could have something and not know about it. Use a condom 100% of the time. Even if you pull out there's this thing called pre-cum and still has semen in it. If the both of you are smart, and everyone here says they are and says their partner is smart as well, she will be on birth control and you will use a condom 100% of the time.

If you're smart you won't have sex with a condom on because...well it sucks.

Darwin contestant.

How is that anything close to being a Darwin contestant?

Yeah, if anything, it's the opposite, because it makes him slightly more likely to reproduce.

STD's can kill you, make you sterile or make your genitals otherwise useless for reproductive or recreational purposes.
 

middlehead

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Jul 11, 2004
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Originally posted by: Cattlegod
Lets play a game of Just the Tip!
We're gonna play a game, it's called "just the tip, just for a second, just to see how it feels."
 

Homerboy

Lifer
Mar 1, 2000
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failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?
 

SilentZero

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Apr 8, 2003
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I believe this. My wife and I used this method for 11 years...and we have only 1 child (which was planned). So yeah...pull out method does work!
 

jonks

Lifer
Feb 7, 2005
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Originally posted by: Homerboy
failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?

No, if 100 women use condoms correctly all year, 2 of them will get pregnant.
 

JulesMaximus

No Lifer
Jul 3, 2003
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...alth/main5045514.shtml

Ask most sexually active people today about the pullout method as an effective form of contraception and you're likely to induce eye-rolling and snickers.

But withdrawal before ejaculation during intercourse is more than just "better than nothing," a new study claims, noting that it is nearly as effective at preventing pregnancy as condoms.

The study, titled "Better than nothing or savvy risk reduction practice? The importance of withdrawal," appears in the June edition of the journal Contraception.

The authors find:

"If the male partner withdraws before ejaculation every time a couple has vaginal intercourse, about 4% of couples will become pregnant over the course of a year. However, more realistic estimates of typical use indicate that about 18% of couples will become pregnant in a year using withdrawal. These rates are only slightly less effective than male condoms, which have perfect- and typical-use failure rates of 2% and 17%, respectively."

PDF of the journal article

Guess I shouldn't freak out as much when I do pull out with my gf when condoms aren't handy now...

Nor should you freak out when your GF gets pregnant with a mini-virus.
 

manowar821

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Mar 1, 2007
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Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Homerboy
failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?

No, if 100 women use condoms correctly all year, 2 of them will get pregnant.

That's not how it works... You can't get pregnant if you use a condom properly. The sperm doesn't make it through the barrier "every once in a while". That 2% failure rate is due to improper usage and/or breakage. If it stays on and is seated properly, the sperm wont get out.

It's the same deal with the pill. The 1% or whatever failure rate it has is due to improper usage, user error, missing a day, something to that effect. If used properly, she will not get pregnant.
 

Dumac

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Dec 31, 2005
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Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Homerboy
failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?

No, if 100 women use condoms correctly all year, 2 of them will get pregnant.

That's not how it works... You can't get pregnant if you use a condom properly. The sperm doesn't make it through the barrier "every once in a while". That 2% failure rate is due to improper usage and/or breakage. If it stays on and is seated properly, the sperm wont get out.

It's the same deal with the pill. The 1% or whatever failure rate it has is due to improper usage, user error, missing a day, something to that effect. If used properly, she will not get pregnant.

Then why are the statistics 17% failure with improper usage, 2% failure with proper usage?
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Catholics have already proven this doesn't work.

<---- comes from a Catholic family
 

octopus41092

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: ggnl
Moral of the story: get her on the pill.

On a side note, I have a hard time believing the failure rate for comdoms is 2%.

Improper use factors in.

Well, yes and improper pulling out is like 25%
 

manowar821

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Mar 1, 2007
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Originally posted by: Dumac
Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Homerboy
failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?

No, if 100 women use condoms correctly all year, 2 of them will get pregnant.

That's not how it works... You can't get pregnant if you use a condom properly. The sperm doesn't make it through the barrier "every once in a while". That 2% failure rate is due to improper usage and/or breakage. If it stays on and is seated properly, the sperm wont get out.

It's the same deal with the pill. The 1% or whatever failure rate it has is due to improper usage, user error, missing a day, something to that effect. If used properly, she will not get pregnant.

Then why are the statistics 17% failure with improper usage, 2% failure with proper usage?

That 2% may be due to breaking condoms or something, I'm not sure. Can YOUR sperm swim through a condom like barrier? I didn't think so.
 

jonks

Lifer
Feb 7, 2005
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Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: Homerboy
failure rate for condoms is 2%?
So if I have sex 100 times I can expect 2 pregnancies?

No, if 100 women use condoms correctly all year, 2 of them will get pregnant.

That's not how it works... You can't get pregnant if you use a condom properly. The sperm doesn't make it through the barrier "every once in a while". That 2% failure rate is due to improper usage and/or breakage. If it stays on and is seated properly, the sperm wont get out.

It's the same deal with the pill. The 1% or whatever failure rate it has is due to improper usage, user error, missing a day, something to that effect. If used properly, she will not get pregnant.

Statistically, which is what we're talking about here, that's exactly how it works.

Oh, and did I mention you're completely incorrect? 2% failure rate is with "perfect use" which means the condom is used correctly and used every single time the woman has sex. The 2% failure rate is due to condom breakage and/or slip-offs during sex despite correct usage.

Incorrect usage is factored into the "typical use" efficacy rate of 15-17%.

So to repeat, if 100 women have sex all year long and use a condom correctly, every time they have sex, statistically 2 of them will still get pregnant.