Many French women abandon the pill, and many choose “natural” methods. However, failure rates are high.
Women of childbearing age before the Neuwirth Act must consider whether their daughters and granddaughters have fallen on their heads. The so-called “natural” contraceptive methods are indeed making a comeback; 10% of French women would have done it, reports The Parisian.
The “Russian roulette”
Christine Mateus, who signs the double page that the daily devotes to the subject, went to “take the temperature” on blogs, forums and social networks. The subject is undoubtedly fashionable. From the good old method of withdrawal, to the equally mythical method of temperature, including the observation of cervical mucus, vaginal discharge or the position of the cervix (!): Discussions and exchanges of advice are going well.
“It’s obviously better than doing nothing and letting nature decide (…). But it’s like playing Russian roulette, ”comments Prof. Philippe Deruelle, secretary general of the National College of French Gynecologists and Obstetricians. As if half a century after the birth of the – many – “Ogino babies”, women still have a taste for risk.
High failure rate
Of course, the 2012 pill crisis is no stranger to this trend. While oral contraception was widely acclaimed by French women, the awareness of the risks associated with the products of 3e and 4e generation threw a chill. Since then, women have diversified their contraception: sales of pills from 1time and 2e generation have increased, but French women have also turned to implants and IUDs (intrauterine devices, or IUDs). However, with the exception of the copper IUD, all of these products are based on the contraceptive effect of hormones, which is what repels some followers of natural methods.
Whether it is because of contraindications, or more often simply by the simple desire not to impose hormones on their body for years, women of all ages therefore trust methods which, however, have far rates of effectiveness. that of the pill or the IUD (the safest method). Failure rates are close to 25% for the Ogino method, and climb to 40% for douching, recalls The Parisian. Not enough to make the aficionados of “vintage” contraception tremble, obviously.
Those who are more trendy “geek” and “quantified self” can always turn to … their smartphone. The application Natural Cycles makes a lot of talk about her. In principle, nothing revolutionary: take your temperature every morning and enter it in your phone. But the algorithm which grinds these data to determine if the woman is fertile or not was developed by a scientist… A physicist, of course, but that gives weight to the device! Which, moreover, would have been evaluated by two clinical trials, the results of which must have been sufficiently convincing, since the app has just obtained the CE mark! Launched two and a half years ago, it has already convinced more than 160,000 users. But no figures are communicated on the Ogino 3.0 babies …
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