#27, Planned Parentood does not give away free oral contraceptives, just condoms. A hidden clause in a congressional debt reduction bill during Bush's term actually raised the price of birth control pills to something like $40 a pack. I'm glad nobody here is debating the merit of Natural Family Planning. Even God knows taking your temperature beforehand doesn't change the fact that you're using the pull-out method at its most elaborate. It still fails!

Birth control is not $40 a pack. I just got mine for $21.... Also, planned parenthood, so far as i know, doesnt give away free condoms anymore. They are way cheaper there than anywhere else, but still not free.

I think it may depend on where you live? Mine give them away for free, but you have to be under their kind of "insurance" program, and you do not pay to be in that program, you just have to qualify.

If you're a minor they still give you birth control for free as long as you get a check up with them first.

#53, you are either haver insurance that pays for part of it, or your brand of BC happens to be an inexpensive one. the Planned Parenthood by me only carries Ortho Tri-Cyclen, and it is $12 for those under 18 and $24 if you are over 18. I elected to tell my mother I was sexually active rather than dropping $40 on the office visit to get prescribed and $24 a month for a BC that may not mix well with my body anyway (oftentimes girls will change BC brands because a certain brand will give them bad symptoms or will mix poorly with other medication they are on) So now I am on Lo Estrin24, it is great, but depending on where the prescription is filled it can cost up to $70 a month because my insurance won't cover a penny of it (incidentally, if I were a man and wanted to go on Viagra, it would cover it in full). I usually get it for about $50 at Wal-Mart, but recently my gyno gave me a card that will get me a further discount, but it will still cost around $25.

It basically depends where you are, pharmacies and Planned Parenthood speaking (and also insurance). I know of Planned Parenthoods that DO give out pills for free to minors and college students, and some pharmacies and types of the Pill can only cost $9/month. But there is NO fixed price--that is a complete myth. The pharmaceutical companies are way too powerful for governmental price fixing.

Yeah. insurance companies do some weird bullshit. The insurance my mom and sisters have wont pay for a surgery my sister needs. If she doesn't get it before her first period she'll never be able to have kids. But because its not seriously detrimental to her heath the insurance says no. If my mom made $1000 less a year she would qualify for a different insurance that would cover the surgery. They expect that extra thousand a year to cover a procedure that'll cost a lot more than that in various ways (the actual surgery, the room at the hospital, the many post-op check ups, etc.)

go to walmart, as much as i hate the place i get my pills for $9 per pack, no special prescription plan or anything.

so was I. My parents still don't use any form of protection, but have managed not to get pregnant again. Dunno how, but after almost 20 years I'm still the only one.

Intimacy covers a wider range of topics than just 'Sex'?

Well they have love already that's pretty broad

Yeah, they have miscellaneous too, why have anything else?

agreed