Contraception & conception regulation
Contraception and conception regulation denote the conscious steering of whether a pregnancy comes about. This entry gives an overview of common means of contraception and additionally describes the view of the Kyborg Lexicon on the theme.
What is it about?
There are today many reliable ways to prevent a pregnancy or to bring one about consciously. Which method suits a couple depends on life situation, health and preferences.
Which means of contraception are there?
- Temperature and cycle methods can give hints of the fertile days. They are demanding in application, less safe than other methods, and presuppose much experience and consistency. Whoever relies on them alone should know the residual risk.
- Spermicides (e.g. foaming tablets) work only with limited safety and are mostly combined with a barrier method.
- Condoms are among the practical methods and additionally protect against sexually transmitted infections – especially in new or changing relationships an important point.
- The coil (IUD) is considered a very safe long-term method. From our own, spiritually oriented view, we are rather reserved towards a foreign body in the body.
- Hormonal contraception (the pill) is, for many couples in a steady relationship, an established and well controllable solution. Like every hormone preparation, it has advantages and disadvantages. From our view, the inner attitude and the life situation play a role in the personal tolerability too.
- A “male pill” is so far not a widely available means. We see it sceptically for energetic reasons.
How do we see it spiritually?
We see it this way: the inner attitude of a person may co-shape the events around conception, and that sexuality is more than a physical process. In our counselling practice, we were told of experiences in which people had the impression of experiencing a pregnancy very consciously – such as the feeling of perceiving an “incarnation” or of sensing the right moment for a wished-for child.
Such accounts are personal reports of experience. The idea that a woman becomes “pregnant only if she wants to”, and therefore needs no means of contraception, is unproven. Whoever wants to reliably avoid a pregnancy should not rely on inner attitude or intuition alone.
What does that mean in practice?
- Whoever wants to prevent conception reliably chooses a safe method.
- Protection against sexually transmitted infections is offered above all by condoms – especially in new relationships.
- Inner attitude, relationship and life situation may be part of one’s own considerations – but they replace no effective contraception.
Change history · last updated on
- — Notes shortened, text tidied.
- — Address of this entry localised: it now carries the English term instead of the German one. The old address redirects.
- — First English version.
Sources
- D. Harald Alke: Gesundheitslexikon (Health Encyclopedia). A detailed account of health-relevant topics and therapeutic methods; bundled, overlapping experiences from around 30 years of life counselling with clients. Kyborg Institute.
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