Despite the perfect safety of a condom and that of the numerous other contraceptive measures available, it often happens that people don’t want to use them. Surveys answer that the most common reasons include being very much “at the moment”, “not thinking” or forgetting, the influence of alcohol, and peer pressure. While the lack of knowledge has hardly ever been cited as a reason for the same, lack of awareness is certainly a thing. Peer pressure shouldn’t be a thing here when it’s more for two people to decide than for the others too.
Nevertheless, some people still abstain because of some issues – allergic responses, etc. – or merely because of the unnaturally of the methods, and they end up looking for natural methods of contraception. Among the few is the pull-out method – coitus interruptus. And, as it is, if you feel like your time in bed with your partner doesn’t feel as real as it should, this could be your thing. However, you must also be aware that it doesn’t protect you from STDs, which you can contract very easily as soon as bodily fluids are exchanged.
How Effective is the Pull-out Method?
While the pull-out method, or the withdrawal technique, may never be as guaranteed as other methods for contraception, it can work out fairly well when done properly. Most of the other methods use things that tend to affect your normal bodily responses, whereas the withdrawal technique is only about avoiding all of that. Perfecting this process is the key to what you might end up with. What you have to do is not ejaculate inside your partner’s vagina during sex, or the result tends to be what you might not really like.
Most of the time, coitus interruptus isn’t the best of options because of several reasons, which include:
- The imminence of ejaculation isn’t very reliably perceived by some males, which causes them to withdraw too late, resulting in a failure of the method.
- Other reasons for failure include the intermittent emission of semen or the emission over a long duration and not all at once.
- Many men also do not understand that the first release of semen has the highest concentration of sperms in comparison to the spurts that follow thereafter. As a result, for those with slow reaction times – because of being drunk, etc. – it can be especially problematic and end up badly.
- In other cases, some men end up releasing semen inside because the momentary pleasure becomes a priority and it takes precedence over their partner’s health and well-being.
Because of these reasons, the failure rate of the pull-out method gets to around 20 or 30 percent. But this is not perfectly done, this is far from perfect. This is what makes the people in the field of reproductive-health dismiss the pull-out method outright. Because they do not believe men to have the ability or the willpower, every time, to pull-out at the right time. Of course, it’s often true, but perhaps you could prove them wrong, and that is why perfection is the key – always!
All said, if performed with the said manner of perfection and precision, only about 4 out of around 100 times it is performed, there’s a chance of failure resulting in pregnancy, which is almost the same rate of failure as of condoms. So, yes, it is effective. How much? Ask yourself!
What if One Still Ends Up Getting Pregnant?
As mentioned above, getting pregnant isn’t denied as a chance even after applying for it. This is because the pull-out method, more often than not, is quite a demanding technique. However, the failure isn’t just as commonly occurring either, and only 4 out of 100 cases of pregnancy have been observed after practising an almost perfect to perfect pull-out method. The key is to not allow any probability of fertilization to be there at any later date, but if that happens to be somehow, there’s still a perfect solution.
Dr. William Henderson, a physician and health consultant at Hisblue recommends using an MTP Kit to overcome the issue. It is essentially a combination of two different tablets that one can use to terminate any pregnancy. This medical abortion is made possible by the activity of the medicine that blocks the action of the female hormone progesterone, which is necessary for maintaining a pregnancy since it helps prepare the uterine wall for conceiving. The blocking of its action leads to contractions in the uterus and keeps the wall from forming, thus making the uterus unfit for pregnancy.
The two tablets included in the MTP (medical termination of pregnancy) Kit are mifepristone (200 mg) and misoprostol (200 mcg). Both are taken orally, with water, and with a period of almost a couple of days between their intake. Proper rest is advised during this time since there’s a chance of severe pain in the stomach and vaginal bleeding which leads to pregnancy termination. It is advised to keep closely in touch with the doctor during the entire process to avoid any serious issues.
Conclusion
The withdrawal technique, or the pull-out method, is a perfect one to avoid pregnancy. But, like all else, it has its very own disadvantages too – the most essential one is facing the downside of even the slightest error. That the method demands perfection in practice is what’s clear, and if that doesn’t happen, there’s a good chance of conceiving. However, to stick up to stats, it only happens to be around 4 out of over a hundred when the chances of conceiving are guaranteed.
It is at this time that our experts at Hisblue advise the use of an MTP Kit, which is also totally secure. It is recommended that you get in touch with a medical professional to help you with administering the doses of a couple of medicines included in the kit. With proper help and following the instructions, you can make things better for yourself. Moreover, any unwanted pregnancy can be nullified and any error during the technique in bed can be forgotten merely as an error.