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The English language is a rich one because it has borrowed heavily from so many different tongues. As a result, people use a variety of words to describe the same thing — especially if that thing involves sex. (I’m sure you’re familiar with some of these words, but, being polite, I won’t mention them.) What never ceases to amaze me, however, is how often people who engage in sexual intercourse forget that what they’re doing is directly related to procreation, propagation, continuing the species, conception, pregnancy, MAKING BABIES!

Some unlucky couples must go through a great deal of trouble to have a family, and some can’t manage to do it on their own at all, so they turn to medical science for help. But for most people, the process is relatively easy — at least until the baby actually arrives. The man needs only to place his erect penis into the woman’s vagina and ejaculate. A baby may not result the first time — though it can, as many women have learned when losing their virginity — but eventually one of the man’s sperm will unite with the woman’s egg, and, voilà, a baby is conceived.

Because baby making can be so easy, many women find themselves pregnant without intending to be. So here’s my first of many tips:

If you absolutely, positively don’t want to make a baby, then don’t have sexual intercourse — remain abstinent.

Yes, I know there are ways of preventing pregnancy from occurring — I talk about them in Chapter 7 — but none of these methods is foolproof. Believe it or not, in at least one recorded case, the man had a vasectomy, the woman had her tubes tied, and she still became pregnant. So remember, the only method that works 100 percent of the time is abstinence.