| Me and my travels
Big family holidays to Cornwall. Me, our kid and all our cousins all went down. You can imagine Cornwall in the early 1970s being hit by a load of Mancs. It didn't know what had hit it: we used to rob it blind. No one down there seemed to know that shoplifting existed. Cheapest holidays I've ever had. MY BEST EVER HOLIDAY WAS... I can't remember. My memory is absolutely terrible. It's crystal clear until I was 17 and then there are just massive gaps. I'm told I went to Cuba to film a video; I genuinely don't remember ever being there. TRAVELLING USED TO BE... All about finding drugs. When we first went to New York in the mid-1980s, crack was just being written and talked about. That was our main mission - to find out how to make crack proper.
The minipill (progestogen-only Pill, or POP)
If you enjoy a good sex life, you almost certainly want to protect yourself against unwanted pregnancy. The minipill can do that for you. But you have to remember to take it every single day of the year. No breaks at all - even when you're on your period. It's not quite as effective as the ordinary Pill, but it's a good deal freer of side effects. And it's particularly useful for some groups of women who cannot take the Pill - for instance, new mums who are breast-feeding. However, it does have some disadvantages, and we'll tell you about them in a moment. What is the minipill? There's a lot of confusion about this name. Many women don't understand it - and, regrettably, even a few doctors have got the wrong end of the stick about it! The minipill is not just a low-dose version of the Pill.
A symptomless and emotional infection
College women share their experiences of being diagnosed with an STI Caitlin Scott The Daily Evergreen At 18 years old, Kayla is preparing to fight cervical cancer. �I�m shocked and surprised because it feels like this is not supposed to happen to me � I don�t deserve it,� the WSU freshman said. After a phone call from the health department telling her she had potentially been exposed to Chlamydia, Kayla went to get tested. Her results showed she was carrying the human papilloma virus, and it had progressed into cervical cancer. �I was ashamed and devastated,� she said. HPV is a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strands. More than 30 of these strands are sexually transmitted and can infect the genital area of men and women.
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