If you don't want to avoid becoming pregnant, you can take a contraceptive in addition to using a condom.
Violett's doctors and health professionals can give you more information about the different birth control methods and you decide which of these suits you best.
You can contact us if you want:
- Information about contraceptives.
- A prescription for contraceptives.
- An IUD (intra-uterine device) inserted.
- A contraceptive injection.
- Get the emergency (morning-after) pill.
Other methods
The methods below are less suitable for sex workers because of the high pregnancy risk.
- The pessary or diaphragm
- The pessary is a cap-like rubber device.
- It is placed over the uterine opening before sex and used together with a spermicide.
- The cap needs to be left in place for at least 8 hours after sex for effective protection.
- Some sex workers use the device during menstruation as a collection vessel for menstrual blood and not as a birth control method.
- Spermicide creams, tablets, gels and foams
- These methods do not provide effective protection against pregnancy and damage the mucosa of the vagina when used regularly.
- That is why they should only be used together with a condom or a cap.
- Coïtus interruptus
- Withdrawing the penis before ejaculation is not a reliable birth control method.
- Some sperm that can still be released before actual withdrawal.
- This method gives you no control because you don’t know when the customer is going to ejaculate.
- Calendar and temperature method
- Periodic abstinence means that you don’t have sex on the days that you are fertile (ovulate).
- This period can be calculated by measuring your daily basal temperature or according to the menstruation dates.
- However, menstrual cycles are not always regular and are difficult to predict with a high degree of certainty.
- Periodic abstinence is therefore not a reliable birth control method.
Do you have any further questions about these methods of contraception?
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