Rabble: Sex Ed 101: How does someone get pregnant? Featuring original artwork by Rabble
Okay, so the above is an amazing artist’s representation of a vagina. The green bits are the ovaries, the purple are the fallopian tubes, and that thing in the blue? That’s the cervix.
People who have ovaries do not continually produce eggs during their lifetime. They…
Pretty good, but three corrections.
1. “It is important to note, however that eggs can be released when they aren’t supposed to so even if you aren’t ovulating you should use a condom or some other type of contraceptive.” I think she means that ovulation can happen when you don’t expect it, which is true. The second part is incorrect. If you are actually not ovulating, by definition no egg is released, and therefore you can’t get pregnant at that time.
2. The theory that the cervix draws semen up into the uterus during orgasm doesn’t appear to have solid scientific data to support it, and shouldn’t be stated as fact.
3. Pregnancy does not typically last 10 months. I’ve heard people say that, but it’s only because they assume there are 4 weeks in a month. The average month is actually 4.35 weeks. If you do the math, you find out that full term (37 weeks to 42 weeks) is 8.5 months to 9.7 months. 10 months would be considered postmature and most pregnancies do not last that long.
