I, a vagina-haver, had no idea until a Catholic friend in college mentioned NFP. The secular Fertility Awareness resources I ended up finding all supported my impression this isn’t widely known. That was twenty years ago, though, maybe young people these days are more body-aware?
Agree it isn’t really gross, I think it’s cool, but it seemed gross-adjacent enough I could get away with sharing in this thread.
For the uninitiated, NFP is Natural Family Planning - the practice of avoiding coitus during ovulation as a form of birth control. It’s seen as a natural form of birth control compared to artificial birth control in the form of condoms and the pill.
It’s strange to me that the Catholic Church singles out birth control as needing to be natural, but not much else.
It’s around 75% effective at preventing pregnancies, but doesn’t stop STIs obviously.
When fertile, women have significantly increased mucus volume in their vaginas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix
The real gross fact is that cervical mucus, during ovulation, has the same consistency as egg whites and can be whipped.
To anyone with a vagina, this is def not an unknown fact hahaha. And gross is debatable but to each their own
To anyone with a long term partner that has a vagina it’s hardly news either.
I mean. I did not know it was called mucus.
I, a vagina-haver, had no idea until a Catholic friend in college mentioned NFP. The secular Fertility Awareness resources I ended up finding all supported my impression this isn’t widely known. That was twenty years ago, though, maybe young people these days are more body-aware?
Agree it isn’t really gross, I think it’s cool, but it seemed gross-adjacent enough I could get away with sharing in this thread.
For the uninitiated, NFP is Natural Family Planning - the practice of avoiding coitus during ovulation as a form of birth control. It’s seen as a natural form of birth control compared to artificial birth control in the form of condoms and the pill.
It’s strange to me that the Catholic Church singles out birth control as needing to be natural, but not much else.
It’s around 75% effective at preventing pregnancies, but doesn’t stop STIs obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning?wprov=sfla1