For other women, two methods may be a smart choice. “Women on the Pill or other hormonal contraception should always be using condoms with new partners, with partners who they think may have cheated on them, and with partners who haven’t yet been tested since they started having sex,” says study coauthor Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute. And if you’re really serious about pregnancy protection but don’t always take the Pill perfectly, doubling up with condoms can increase your protection, says Herbenick. That’s because the Pill has a nine percent failure rate with typical use (like if you happen to forget a few pills most months).
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