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Tina. Hello. Hey, you're 21. You're on Loveline. Hi. I just have a question. My boyfriend had seen you on MTV, and he was saying that something about another caller had called in,

and I guess you had advised them not to have sex during her period because it could decrease the risk or the chances of you ever getting pregnant.

Well, an interesting conclusion, you dropped from what I said.

It is possible to get pregnant during your period, so you shouldn't consider yourself protected. And there is some evidence that women during their period sort of have a more, an open sort of route to the higher areas of the genital tract, like the fallopian tube. So if should he be passing an infection to you, it could get into the higher areas of the genital track. And if they get into the fallopian tube so if he should he be passing an infection to you it could

get into the higher areas of the genital track and if they get into the flopian tubes they might

impact on fertility that way and plus the real danger is that the guy never gets another erection and

that's uh why not please true that is, that is just a yucky town.

You know what I mean?

Well, so overall... Where's a real man get down to business?

Okay, well, you heard it here first, everybody.

Drew, it's more man than I.

Is it mostly that it just...

If he is, like, infected with something?

Yeah, right. I mean, there's, you're asking, it's sort of a complicated. What are you doing, Tina? But wait a second. My girlfriend has a cut on her finger. I don't go near. But Tina, I just want you to understand the basic principle that your complications of infections are greater during your period and you're not protected against pregnancy. So I try to kind of keep it simple like that.

Whether you get infected and how you get infected is actually an issue of controversy.

When I was in training, we thought it was always chlamydia or gonorrhea.

There's now evidence that other bacteria can get up there too.

And so it's not always so clear cut a sexually transmitted disease.

But you have a much less chance of becoming pregnant when you're on your period, don't you? Yes. Less. Less. Listen, there's got to be some payday. You know what I mean? There's got to be something in it for you. You understand? Otherwise one wouldn't have one? Is that you're saying? No. What I'm saying is, is if the guy is going to go through the trouble of having sex while she's on her period and deal with the shame, humiliation,

and if a man has that intestinal fortitude to go forward and do that, there should be some

payoff, and that payoff is less chance of getting pregnant.

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