Get On Top of Your Sex Life: Bedsider at WSU This month’s first Wellness Wednesday is titled “Friends Don’t Let Friends Have Unprotected Sex” and it got me thinking: having a kid during this hectic time in my life would put everything on hold.
According to Bedsider, seven in ten pregnancies among unmarried women from 18-29 are unplanned. In the event of an unplanned pregnancy Winona State University’s Health and Wellness Services and Semcac Clinic College has had the stereotype as a sexual free-for-all lon- located in Winona are valuable resources. ger then I have been alive, and it has also been known as an extremely stressful time of a person’s life—everything One unique service Bedsider provides is a daily reminder is changing all around you. So it is not inconceivable to take birth control pills. They also provide a nationthat one morning a pill could be forgotten, or one parwide directory on their website, which lists health centicularly wild night a condom could be neglected. ters that offer emergency contraception and other birth control information.
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Mitch Johnson, Senior English Writing
We have all been exposed to the birth control options: condoms, the pill, Plan B. Yet one little slip up could mean the derailing of your entire college career.
This is where Bedsider enters the equation. It is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that works to enlighten youth on the different types and different benefits of birth control.
Wellzine
November 2013