Freya — This Norse name means "lady" or "noblewoman" and comes from the Old Norse name Freyja. Lakelynn — Combining the ...

At the heart of emotionally safe sex is enthusiastic, ongoing consent, according to Dr. De-Lin. “That means checking in ...

The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that tracks your temperature, heart rate, and movement while ...

A study reveals that many clinicians remain unaware of self-administered injectable contraception, despite its decades-long ...

Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’ve used an intrauterine device (IUDs) as birth control since becoming ...

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to ...

If you took the warning label that comes with your birth control and tossed it right in the trash, you wouldn’t be alone. After all, every medication comes with a risk of side effects, and those ...

The FDA approved a label change for the birth control shot depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera), which now warns about the risk of meningioma, according to a letter posted on the agency ...

More young, child-free women are pursuing the permanent form of contraception. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, noticed a shift among ...

COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Denmark's government said on Wednesday it had reached an agreement in parliament to provide individual compensation to Greenlandic women who were victims of a ...

Denmark will compensate victims in a decades-long scandal in which thousands of Greenlandic girls and young women were fitted with birth control devices by Danish doctors, often without their consent ...