How to Tie the Knot

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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Birth control is relatively easy to come by — so long as it's temporary. But if you're young and/or childfree, permanent birth control (aka sterilization) remains a stunningly controversial choice to choose. To find out why, Cristen and Caroline join independent radio producer Brie Ripley, who documented getting her own tubes tied and discovered what happens when you definitely, no-maybes, want to tie the fallopian knot.

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0:00.0	I had my sterilization almost three years ago.
0:07.6	It'll be three years in May.
0:10.4	And I feel great about it now.
0:12.7	No regrets.
0:14.4	It's honestly, oh man, I'm going to tell you this because this is on Ladylike.
0:19.8	I know one of the questions for all of the guests of the Unlady Egg podcast is what's
0:23.5	the most Unlady like thing about you.
0:25.7	And one of the most Unladylike things about me is I really like to have sex out of
0:32.2	wedlock.
0:33.4	And I really like to have sex in monogamous relationships at a certain point, like many
0:39.4	people without condoms.
0:41.9	And now I can do that and not worry.
0:45.1	It's such a relief.
0:46.1	Hey y'all and welcome to Unladylike, the show that finds out what happens when women break
1:07.1	the rules.
1:08.1	I'm Kristen.
1:09.1	I'm Caroline.
1:10.1	And Kristen, before we prepped for today's episode, I honestly had no idea that tubal
1:15.2	sterilization, aka getting your tubes tied, is the second most common form of birth control
1:21.6	for women in the US after the birth control pill.
1:25.2	It's even more common than the IUDs that you and I have.
1:28.0	That surprised me too, because even though it's the baby blocker of choice for more than
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