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You’re a fool. “Pull out” does not protect against pregnancy or STDs. Pre-ejaculate can have viable sperm in it.

• throwawaylaptop 1y ago
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• bluGill 1y ago
  You reduce the odds. It is good for those who want kids but not 20 - which is likely the result with nothing at all. does nothing about stds though.
• backscratches 1y ago
  pre ejaculate contains zero sperm if you havent fully ejaculated previously. there is no mechanism for sperm to be released during preejaculation.
  • vidarh 1y ago
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• komali2 1y ago
  Pull out method is a less viable method of preventing pregnancy, and especially less viable at preventing STDs. However, it's still considered a contraceptive strategy. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/withdrawal-pull-out-method/how-effective-is-withdrawal-method-pulling-out https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/withdr... For every 100 people who use pull out method perfectly, within a year, 4 will get pregnant. Since not everyone does a great job doing it, in reality 22 get pregnant every year. Here's a great overview page: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control in summary, condoms are 87% effective at preventing pregnancy, and withdrawal is 78% effective. For a going-steady couple that isn't worried about STDs, keeps an emergency contraceptive ('morning after pill') ready for oopsie mistakes, and live in a country that grants women bodily autonomy (or have discussed and accepted that a mistake might lead to a child), pullout is a perfectly valid contraceptive mechanism. There are better, but considering that basically every method except a condom/internal condom can cause extreme discomfort or bad side effects to the woman in the relationship, I think it's totally fine to choose pull-out.