As a Northern Californian, I've got some hippie tendencies and never wanted THE MAN fiddling with my vagina through chemical birth control. So when I saw Refinery29's breakdown of non-hormonal birth control, I got excited. And then I got worried. Apparently, the pull-out method is all the rage these days?

For the longest time, women have been portrayed as automatic mothers, that, simply because most women are "made" to make babies, all of us want to. Then voices cut through schooling the world that, hey, wait a minute: Plenty of women don't, in fact, want babies at all. But left out in the cold in this either/or…