WOMEN’S BODIES: ABOUT FERTILITY AWARENESS.
Advantages of fertility awareness
• There are no known side-effects.
• It is highly effective if coitus is confined to the second infertile phase.
• The method is acceptable to most religious doctrines.
• Once you’ve been taught the method, there’s no follow-up or further expense.
• It allows you to understand your reproductive cycle better, which may help you to conceive when you want to.
• Many couples find that the co-operation needed strengthens their relationship. Many also discover a new joy in non-coital sexual gratification.
Disadvantages of fertility awareness
• Some women find it hard to observe and interpret the changes.
• Regular daily observations are essential. Some busy women find this difficult.
• There may be conflict and frustration during periods of abstinence.
• Frequent travel by one or other partner may make it difficult to co-ordinate sexual activity and periodic abstinence.
Fertility awareness in the future
Researchers are working on more accurate means of identifying the fertile and non-fertile phases. These include:
• a digital readout thermometer w built-in microcomputer, which works out whether or not your BBT indicates fertility and tells you, day by day, when you must abstain
• devices that women can use to mead the hormone content of their urine or saliva
• ultrasound machines that eventually may become as cheap as pocket calculators. We could plug them into our television sets and use them to monitor ovulation. This might sound like science fiction, but it’s not so long that most of us thought we’d never learn to use computers, so anything’s possible.
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