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What Are Natural Birth Control Methods?

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Summary: Natural birth control methods do not use any chemicals, hormones or props, and it only consists of using abstinence and a calendar to map out the woman's bodily rhythms and fertility. Understand how natural birth control methods are used with advice from a human sexuality counselor in this free video on sexual health.

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By Carol L. Clark
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Dr. Carol L. Clark has a Ph.D. in human sexuality, and she works with a variety of individuals, couples and groups with a wide variety of concerns. She has been a licensed mental...read more

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"Hi, I'm Dr. Carol Clark, I'm a sex therapist and licensed mental health counselor here in Miami, Florida. in this clip we're going to talk about natural birth control methods. Natural birth control methods are those that don't use chemicals and don't use any kind of props like condoms or diaphragms. Natural birth control methods are the only types of birth control accepted by many religions such as the Catholic church. Natural birth control methods of course include abstinence which is no sex at all but it also includes the calendar rhythm control method which uses the natural rhythms of the body, a woman keeping track of her monthly cycles through the calender to monitor when she's most likely to be fertile and abstaining from sex during that time. It also used the basil body temperature which means taking the temperature everyday over a period of two to three months to find out again when the woman is most fertile and when she's least fertile. And also the cervical mucous in measuring the thickness. Once again this is Dr. Carol Clark in Miami, Florida."

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