This film educates about the importance of using birth control to prevent the rising number of unplanned pregnancies. It explains different forms of birth control and debunks common myths about sex and birth control while encouraging young people to seek professional guidance from medical professionals. The film is presented by Charles Cahill and Associates, inc. in Glendale, California, in corporation with Planned Parenthood.

Photographs of young people smiling and doing sports, including skiing, surfing, swimming, driving motorcycles, and canoeing (00:17). A young couple is walking and holding hands (00:45). “Pregnancy Prevention: Options” title banner (00:50). Magazines covers and posters (01:11). Young people sitting in a park (01:24). A cross and a church (01:28). Young people walking around and talking to each other (01:33). Young people comment on sex (01:42). A young man and woman walking (02:10). A young woman working in a store, talks about her pregnancy and life as a single mother (02:21). A young man is filling his car with gas, and comments on paying child support (02:50). The mother working in the store continues her story (02:56). Another young woman working in a record store talks about giving her child up for adoption (03:10). The first woman continues her story (03:19). A pregnant student is walking on campus (03:28). A nurse is examining a newborn baby (03:47). A young couple and their newborn exit a supermarket and enters their car (04:00). A young couple is having an appointment with an abortion doctor (04:17). Various youngsters and young couples comment of setting boundaries and learning how to say no (04:47). A young couple walking in a park (05:35). Various brit control form, including contraceptive pills, IUDs, the diaphragm, condoms, and contraceptive foam (05:49). A young couple walking in a park (06:04). An illustration of a stork carrying a baby and the title overlay “Myth 1” (06:24). A young man expresses the first myth; women are responsible for birth control (06:27). Another young man disagrees with the statement (06:41). A young woman promotes a more open conversation about birth control to avoid confusion (06:51). Young people express difficulty when talking openly about sex (07:03). An illustration of a stork carrying a baby and the title overlay “Myth 2” (07:22). Youngsters express the assumption, that although pregnancy happened to someone else, it won’t happen to them (07:26). Young people on a beach (07:47). “Myth 3” title overlay (08:08). Youngsters speak about how infrequent intercourse is an excuse to have unprotected sex (08:12). “Myth 4” tile overlay (08:34). Youngsters speak about how sex can be an unpredictable event, and therefor they are blameless for not using protection (08:39). “Myth 5” title overlay (09:09). Youngsters speak about taking chances because it’s more exiting to have unprotected sex (09:32). “Myth 6” title overlay (09:42). Youngsters speak about birth control as something unromantic (09:46). “Myth 7” title overlay (10:24). Youngsters talk about the side effects of birth control (10:28). A step-by-step poster explaining the use of contraceptive foam (10:50). A poster of the contraceptive pill (10:52) and an IUD inserted in a uterus (10:55). A poster of the risk-statistics of different types of birth control (10:56). “Myth 8” title overlay (11:04). Youngsters speak about the worry of their parents’ reaction to their use of birth control (11:08). A young woman reading a flyer about birth control (11:26). Another woman comments on her parents’ opinion about birth control (11:47). “Myth 9” title overlay (12:13). Youngsters talk speak about douching as a form of prevention (12:18). A sculpture of a couple kissing (12:48). A young woman uses a calendar, and cycle-tracking is explained (13:10). “Myth 10” title overlay (13:31). Youngsters speak about the inconvenience end embarrassment of buying birth control (13:35). Youngsters riding on bikes (16:05), playing guitar (16:13), riding motorcycles (16:18), and playing baseball (16:26). Credentials (16:37).

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