Young girls are becoming women earlier than ever, on average beginning puberty at age nine or ten. Do media images of stick-thin models encourage girls to hate female curves? And how do these girls deal with their newfound sexuality?

13. Birth Control

Nov, 1999

30 minutes

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Of all mammals on Earth, humans reproduce the slowest. We take the longest of any creature to reach sexual maturity, we have the longest times in between births, and we have more copulations per conception than any other mammal. So itâ€™s odd that human fertility is a major threat to the future of the Earth. This episode focuses on birth control, the types, the effects, side-effects, etc.