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An alternative birth control method

> When hormones just aren't doing it anymore

Katie Czenczek
Staff Writer

 

ex is great and fun—in theory—but

hen it involves straight people going
at it, birth control becomes a topic that
often dampens the mood, or it doesn’t get
discussed at all and that responsibility
automatically falls on the woman. After
all, she is the one who could be carrying lil’
Tommy, while the equally responsible guy
often holds no accountability.

Moreover, with so few birth control
options for men on the market, women
have had to put their bodies through
some pretty awful ordeals just to have
sex. Common side effects of the pill, shot,
hormonal IUD, and copper IUD include:
Nausea, intermenstrual spotting, breast
tenderness, headaches, weight gain, mood
changes, missed periods, and the most
ironic of them all—decreased libidos. Some
more severe side effects include alopecia,
blood clotting, and increased risk of some
cancers.

It’s no wonder that women are starting
to look for a noninvasive and natural birth
control option.

Products like Daysy Fertility Calculator
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and other fertility monitor apps promise
that the simple act of monitoring your cycle
via temperature scans daily can be enough
to prevent pregnancy. They promise that
charting one’s basal body temperature,
along with entering in your menstrual
data, can be enough to indicate whether
or not it’s okay for sexy time. When the
temperature scan is blinking green for the
day, you're good to go; if it’s yellow or red,
then sex is a no-go. Daysy promises that it
will “show you if you are fertile or not with
an accuracy of 99.3 per cent” according to
Daysy’s website, and is one of the first apps
to be considered a government-approved
method of birth control—though only in
Europe, so far.

The benefits of using this method of
birth control are that there are absolutely
no side-effects, because no hormones are
getting flushed into your body. This can
be wonderful news for anyone who has
suffered from the debilitating side effects of
your everyday birth control. Another cool
thing about monitoring your own personal
fertility is that you can learn a lot about
your body and how your cycle works.

However, if you are someone who
already struggles with remembering to

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> New sushi restaurant opens right next to Douglas

Jerrison Oracion
Senior Columnist

 

ne of our favourite cuisine styles

here at the Other Press is Japanese
food. After our meetings, we often
frequent local sushi restaurants for a
group dinner. Recently, a new Japanese
restaurant, Hyack Sushi, opened
closer to campus—just across the
street from the Other Press's office.

Hyack Sushi is a block away from the
New Westminster campus, located on
the infamous Douglas Grind. When you
go inside the restaurant the atmosphere
of it is very traditional, and there is a
dining room for groups that has a view
of downtown New Westminster.

Thad a Katsu Don, which is
a pork cutlet mixed with egg and
put on top of rice and onions.

The egg caused the pork cutlet to
taste more delicious, and the teriyaki sauce
that is in the rice adds a lot of flavour to

everything that is in the bowl. In some
of their beef food items, they use a type
of beef called viande, cooked medium
rare. This type of meat can be found
ina lot of Japanese steak restaurants
in Japan. The beef tasted juicy and
chewy. They put viande in some of their
appetizers and some of their sushi rolls.
An interesting food item that the
restaurant has is tofu teriyaki. You still get
the tender taste of tofu when it is cooked,
and the teriyaki sauce adds flavour to it.
All the food items that I’ve tried at
the restaurant tasted great, and they all
seemed very authentic. Every day, they
have a special during lunch featuring
one of their most popular items.
The restaurant has a lot of delicious
selections of Japanese food, and
with two other Japanese restaurants
nearby the New Westminster campus,
students are left with a hard decision
to make! Hyack Sushi is located at 55
8th Street in New Westminster.

     

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take the pill halfthe time, Daysy and other
fertility apps may not be the best options
for you. The problem with Daysy and other
noninvasive birth control options is that
these products require you to check your
temperature the second you wake up. Every.
Single. Day. This requires a lot of discipline
and may not be suitable for people who
like the security of not having to trust
themselves to not mess it up.

Another issue that arises from
going the natural route is that, because
these methods are not yet approved by

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the Canadian government, insurance
companies don't have to cover them. These
monitors and temperature scans aren't
cheap by any means, with Daysy’s fertility
monitor coming in at the lofty price of $420.
Possibly once, and if, these methods get
approved, they’d then become a viable—
and affordable—option for anyone tired of
current birth control methods.

For now, it seems that people with
uteruses are still damned if they do and
damned if they don’t in the lovely world of
birth control options.

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