Food and Drug Administration gave green light to a new female condom FC2 that could be alternative to first ever previously approved condom for women FC which hardly generated decent sales since its launch back in 1993. Full story

In 21st century the average age for a woman to give birth slowly approaches 35 years, making contraception a particularly important subject. There are lots of couples using condoms, women taking birth control pills and those having IUD. But there are still many myths about contraception. Let us go through some of them and reveal the truth behind them. Full story

The results of the study conducted by Swedish scientists promise there might be non-hormonal contraception pills in future that won’t have side effects associated with current hormonal birth control pills. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Huddinge found a protein that plays a major role in conception. This protein could be used for creating new contraceptive pills to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Full story

Despite the fact that condoms are publicly available, people very often disregard this contraception method. According to a research done by Durex in 2003, the Chinese have the highest tendency to have sex with a new partner without the use of condoms (70%), the next are the Czechs (58%) and the British (34%). The French take the greatest care of their sexual safety - only 9% are ready to risk their sexual health. Here are some interesting facts about condoms you didn’t know. Full story