PULP IT LIKE IT’S HOT: The Flying NuvaRing

Imagine you’re about to put your penis into a vagina you’re fairly familiar with. You know its curves, its undulations, its depths.

“Why think about taking birth control every day? So says the NuvaRing website.

Back in 2008, I had found a pamphlet at my local Planned Parenthood. I was a freshman in college — 19, dating a 24-year-old with a steady line of marijuana and a Volkswagon Jetta.

We’ll call him Ryan.

Ryan was a lot of things. A musician, a sweetheart — a cocaine-addict with a four-foot bong by his bed. He didn’t really have his shit together, which is probably why he was dating someone five years his junior who had just moved out from her parents’ house. But for young me, he was kind of a dreamboat. A chaotic, problematic, charming dreamboat who lived with his parents.

The NuvaRing seemed like a good, less-stressful option compared to the pill. Here’s how it works, for those of you not in the know: the NuvaRing is a relatively small, flexible ring that releases controlled amounts of hormones in similar doses to the pill.

However, you can leave it in your pussy for an entire month before it needs to be replaced.