Chance pregnacy without penetration

Not getting the timing right. Counting day one of your period as day one of your cycle, most women ovulate about 14 days before their next period. If your cycle is very regular you have a good idea when you ovulate. If not, it might make sense to buy an over-the-counter fertility monitor to help you get the timing right.

The results of a long-term study of reproductive health, published in the British Medical Journal , have revealed that one in two hundred US women claim to have given birth without ever having had sexual intercourse. The findings were based on a study of 7, women and girls aged 15 to 28, as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which ran from to The Christmas issue of the BMJ reports that, of the women who took part in the study, 45 0. In short, they claimed to have conceived - yet had not had vaginal intercourse or in-vitro fertilisation IVF.

Skip navigation! Story from Sex. Molly Longman. I was wrong. Turns out, you can get pregnant without having any penetrative, penis-in-vagina sex at all.

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