The birth control "controversy"
I was put on birth control at the age of 16 for medical reasons. It was a 3 month treatment for what was basically out of control hormones. I was in high school, and much to my horror my period would show up every other week, or not at all, or come and stay for a month. My mom took me to a female OB/GYN, and this was her prescription. I am sure my mother was a little nervous when her gorgeous teen age daughter was given birth control. But, it was a medical treatment, I needed it, and it worked. After a three month treatment and for at least a year after my period was "normal". I was a virgin when the treatment started, and I was still a virgin after it. Fear of getting pregnant is not the only deterrent to having sex, no matter what the religious right tells you. That was over 20 years ago, and at the time only my close friends knew I was on the pill because back then people would label me a slut if they knew I was on the pill. "I heard she was on the pill.&qu