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muriel_volestrangler

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6. Since this from the National Survey of Family Growth, vaginal intercourse is what counts

Reply to Myrina (Reply #1)

Thu May 3, 2012, 06:43 PM

May 2012

because that's how you get a family. It would be stylistically awkward to constantly qualify the sex as 'vaginal' all the way through the article. You can see the point of the article is talking about the chances of getting pregnant - much of it is about contraception, and it goes on to talk about the teen birth rate.

The stats are not misleading; but if you quote just a small part of the article, they could seem misleading.

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