Practicing Natural Family Planning doesn't mean we're prudes!

Shock!
Couples practicing NFP actually have a decent sex life!
Wow!!

Obviously if I truly found this to be shocking, I would not be posting this.

Let me go back to the time when I was engaged to be married.
I was going to the doctor for a well-visit, just setting up my PCP, etc.
As we go through the appointment, she asks me the usual questions- family history, illnesses, allergies, last cycle, last Pap, and of course, she ended by asking when I needed a prescription for birth control pills. She assumed I would "need" them because I would be married in a few months.

I proudly told her we will be using NFP. She scoffed at me! My doctor was there- right in front of me- denying the effectiveness of NFP. She is supposed to be a doctor? You don't need to be an OB/GYN to know the female reproductive system! She should have already known that YES- NFP CAN BE EFFECTIVE!!!

From the article:
'"It's important that the healthcare community let women know that these methods are available, growing in popularity, and that users continue to be satisfied with them."' YES!!!

I knew then that I would look for another doctor.
Regardless of a PCP, however, we still have to constantly defend our choice for practicing NFP. This is with family, friends, co-workers, and almost anyone who shares their intimate life with me.

I proudly tell of NFP. It is usually followed with an uneducated remark about how we must only have sex once a month- or about how we're going to "wind up with" a ton of kids! (as if that would be such a horrible thing!)
Worst of all, people's reactions indicate that they feel sorry for my husband and I. They feel like we are depriving ourselves of adult pleasure.
It is the other way around. I feel sorry for them!
Like the study reveals, "They found that couples who use fertility awareness-based methods of family planning to prevent pregnancy engage in more frequent sex before and after the fertile time, and have less sex during fertile days. Frequency of intercourse over the course of the women's cycle is comparable to those of couples using other methods of family planning."

It is most of married society that is participating in the marriage act without fully giving themselves to each other. They are putting chemicals and latex between them! Physically putting it between them! Yup- that sure sounds more romantic and exciting. :( (umm, not quite)

Read the article. It may be an awakening for many of you. At least I hope so.