FemCap Advantages/Disadvantages

FemCap Advantages

• No effects on sexual desire or pleasure
• You will enjoy a natural sex. For comparison with hormonal contraception visit Epigee Women's Health.
• Safe, effective, and highly acceptable to women and men
  
• Fast to learn and easy to use
  
• Can be inserted several hours before sexual intimacy
  
• Does not interrupt spontaneity or reduce sexual pleasure
  
• Comes in three sizes (can fit almost any woman)
• Inexpensive, reusable for one year, environmentally safe
  
• No interference with the menstrual cycle
  
• No effect on fertility, instant reversibility when pregnancy is desired
• No effects with breastfeeding or breast milk
  
• Woman has full control (no male involvement)
  
• Discreet make-up-like container enhances portability
  
• More acceptable to the health care provider (minimum training time)
  
• A step-by-step brochure and an instructional video tape are provided with each FemCap kit
  
• Non-allergenic latex-free material and anatomical design

• Planning necessary before sexual intimacy
  
• Women may forget and leave the FemCap in longer than 48 hours, because they are unable to feel its presence. Women are encouraged to use a calendar to monitor insertion and removal to avoid this possibility
  
• The FemCap is less effective than hormonal contraception

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