Statistics of contraceptives is actually pretty high, don't you think?

Question

http://www.contraceptivetechnology.com/table.html

Is this true? Am I interpreting this right? 5 out of every 1000 STERILIZED women will become pregnant within one year? And for condoms it's even worse! 2 out of 100 couples will become pregant!!! And that is with PERFECT USE!! That can't be right, can it? This is ridiculously high! Don't you think???

I thought contraceptives were supposed to essentially eliminate the chances of becoming pregnant, but 2 out of 100 people doesn't sound too effective to me. This seriously kind of makes me think twice about having s*x, even protected s*x.

Answer 1

Contraceptives doesn't eliminate pregnancy, especially when it's condom.

Yes, you should think twice about having s*x outside marriage, if you don't want to get anyone pregnant.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Those figures sound about right to me.

Answer 4

Actually, that sounds about right.

After all, it's not saying that 2 out of 100 times the couples have s*x they get pregnant.  It's saying that 98 out of 100 couples avoid pregnancy during the entire first year.

Answer 5

It is right, but you can make your chances so much better by using multiple methods at once.

Answer 6

The statistics here aren't "incorrect", just very misleading.

The 2% figure you're talking about is the percentage of COUPLES in the sample, not the percentage of condoms.  Obviously the failure rate of condoms isn't 1 in 50.  If that was true, then just about any couple who's had s*x once a week for a year would have become parents.

They took 100 couples who used condoms and found 2 pregnancies from an estimated net total of 8,300 acts of sexual intercourse with condoms.  So that puts condom effectiveness at about 99.976%. 1 in 4,150 condoms breaking is quite different than 1 in 50.

No doubt the religious zealots will be chiming in to do their little "The only answer is abstinence!" dance.  Of course, that's like saying that since car crashes are the leading cause of unnatural death (more than those who die from STDs, in fact) that we should walk everywhere.