Swinging and Birth Control
What methods of birth control do you use when you swing?
140 members have voted
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1. What methods of birth control do you use when you swing?
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Sometimes we only used Condoms47
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Sometimes we only used Withdrawal19
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Sometimes we only used Fertility Awareness (e.g. rhythm method)14
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Sometimes we only used Spermicides1
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We ALWAYS used safer or combined methods93
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