[borasolit]

Will be moving abroad soon. Wondering where I should go for or how I should go about getting birth control pills in Bangkok? Is it difficult?

[sobre]

Seeker, although I am sure you only had good intentions with your comment, taking steriods and taking birth control are not analogous to one another.

Most women don't go on birth control so that they can engage in unlimited sex, nor do most decide to go on birth control for various other shallow reasons. Given a 99% effectiveness rate, birth control methods such as the pill are far more effective than condoms in preventing pregnancy. (Let's not forget that some do not even use condoms at all!)

I wonder if the younger girls who are sexually active go on birth control. There would be a far lower rate in teen pregnancy, but I am sure most are too afraid to tell anyone or unaware. But that's just not in Thailand.

[didrexx]

if I remember it correctly, the injection costs about 700 baht

[Emedgella]

The supression of basic biological drives leads to a redirecting of those energies. This redirection is often in the realm of perversion, hence all the stories about sailors and people in prison (not to mention scandals involving Catholic priests). Wisdom dictates that we recognize that we all have these basic biological urges, and that we work to develop realistic ways of reconciling biological needs with the needs of society. Condoms and reliable forms of birth control are excellent ways of dealing with this conflict between social constraints and biological urges.