I have found a new Internet obsession!!! It's cosmopolitan.com (pretty much the best website for women on the Internet). I somehow find myself on it everyday, whether I meant to or not. It has articles about everything that a girl would want to know about, relationships, sex, friends, health and beauty, and even some pretty good quizzes.

However, this specific blog is about one of the articles that I read the other day on EC, or Emergency Contraceptives. I really love Cosmo because they aren't afraid to answer questions without a bias. They give you all the facts about each side. Except for this article, it started off about a girl talking about a condom breaking during intercourse. She then asked if it would be safe to take an EC such as Plan B, the most popular form of EC. The article really didn't answer any of her questions. I felt as though they skipped right over her question actually. The article continued to skip over her question by telling about how this incident most likely occurred, because the condom wasn't used correctly... Really??? This person is asking about what will happen to her body and all you can tell her is that she doesn't know how to use a condom. UNBELIEVABLE.

I began to do research on the EC because I was curious and Cosmo did not quiet quench my intellectual thirst. I found out from the Plan B website that this EC will not abort an already established pregnancy. I wasn't clear on this and I don't know if everyone else was too. But, what was more interesting was finding out how the pill actually works. It thickens the mucous lining of your cervix to impede sperm from reaching your fallopian tubes. It also thins out the lining of your uterus so that in the case that the egg is fertilized, it can not implant into the lining. The website warned of nausea, dizziness, and vomiting, much like the Cosmo website did (being the only useful piece of info I could pull from my adored website).

That being said, I am still pretty disappointed in Cosmo for not giving women the actual health facts. It will definitely deter me from reading more health related articles from their site because the information may also be skewed.