THE COIL – BALANCING RISKS AND BENEFITS – PILL OR COIL?
This is not a perfect nor a 100% successful method, perhaps easier to cope with because of, not despite, these apparent drawbacks. The risk factor, the possibility of pregnancy, is vital to some women if they are to really enjoy intercourse.
Mrs C. definitely knew that she and her husband did not want any more children. However, she could not contemplate sterilization, for herself or her husband. She cheerfully started taking the Pill, but three months later she was back, looking unhappy. No real problems, except . . . well, she quite liked sex, but . . . she could not come any more. Could it be the Pill? Different contraceptive pills were tried, to no avail. It was decided to try the coil, despite the doctor’s worries about the risk of pregnancy. She returned happier, the periods were ‘miserable’, but sex was good again. The doctor initially thought that this depression of libido was caused by the Pill but Mrs C. confided that she had realized that at the point of orgasm she silently called to her husband, ‘Give me a baby . . .’ She used this fantasy to release herself sexually, and the very unreliability of the coil was its best point.
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