I Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 7, 1971 sex information Contraceptives by robert koop This regular question-and-answer column on matters of sexual concern is being published in cooperation with Counseling Serv- ices, a division of the Office of Student Services. Questions may be mailed to Box 25, The Daily, 420 Maynard St., or phoned into . 76-GUIDE, the 24-hour counseling and referral service. Q. A while back, you printed a table showing the effectiveness of different contraceptive methods. Would you.rerun it? - J.G. A. Sure. First let me say a little about what the figures mean, though. These figures - along with most other figures you see on con- traceptives - are measures of use-effectiveness. That means they tell you how successful a method is when its used by real people in their real lives. It does not tell you the theoretical effectiveness of a meth- od or how well it does under laboratory conditions. The figures are expressed in pregnancies per hundred woman years. That means that they are the percentage of women who can expect to get pregnant over the course of one fertile, sexually active year. Looking at it another way, it's about four times the number of pregnancies one woman can expect in a fertile, sexually active life- time. ONE MORE THING. Statistics are statistics, and individuals aren't. There's a lot of evidence that motivation is one of the big factors in determining just how effective a particular contraceptive is for a particular person. So if you're highly motivated and con- scientious about whatever method you use, your chances of failure are probably a good bit lower than those of the average man or wo- man. So here it is: T he P ill .. ..... ........................................................... 0.05 Condom and foam .................................................... 0.1 - 5.0 IU D .............................................. ..................:........ 1 .5 - 8 .0 C ondom .................................................................... 5 - 2 0 , Diaphragm and jelly ................................................ 10 - 20 Vaginal spermicides ........... ............ 15 - 25 Rhythm m ethod .. ............................................ 15 - 30 Coitus interruptus .......... ......................................... 20 - 30 N othing at all-....................... .......... ................................ 40 Q. How do I get rid of crabs? Please hurry and don't print my initials. - X. A. Crab lice are picked up by intimate physical contact or shar- ing louse-ridden bedding. It's also possible to pick them up in odd ways, like trying on clothes that were just tried on, but that sort of thing isn't very common. Generally they like to inhabit the'bases of public hair although you can find them sometimes in your eyebrows or on the hair on your chest or under your arms. There are two parts to the treatment-one is getting rid of the lice on your body and the other is getting rid of the lice on all things you come in close contact with. This includes close friends. ALL HUMAN LICE live off human blood and starve to death if they don't get it (or a very close facsimile). You can tell when they're there feeding because of the itching sensation. If you look closely at where you're scratching, you can probably see them there. They're only one millimeter long, they're flat and they're brown-white. If you've got really sharp eyes or something to magnify them with you'll see why they're called crabs. They look like crabs. They lay their eggs on your hairs. If your fingers are sensitive, you may be able to feel them as a little bump on the hair. (They're called nits, by the way-which makes "nit-picking" into a very gra- phic expression all of a sudd'en). Anyway, here's what you can do about them. There are three good preparations that I know of-Kwell (you need a prescription), Cuprex and Topicide (you don't). Treat all affected areas by rub- bing the preparation in, waiting an hour and then showering or bathing. Don't get the stuff in your eye You're not done yet. Comb out the hair with a fine-toothed comb. Shaving helps, but it's not necessary and it makes it pretty hard to hide the fact that something's up. Speaking of which, any- one you've had and will have intimate contact with should have a treatment too. DON'T TRY TO TREAT crabs with an insecticide like DDT powder. It'll kill the lice all right, but it won't kill the eggs and you'll, be itching again right away. You're still not done. Take everything you've been wearing and all your bed sheets and stuff out and either wash them in hot water or have them dry cleaned. The little devils can live off your body for quite a while before they finally starve to death, as nothing is really safe unless you haven't touched it for three or four weeks. If at first you don't succeed . . . well, you know the old saying. Or you might try seeing a doctor. She or he may be able to tell you what you're doing wrong-or what the crabs are doing right. Good, luck. Organic farmers reap last harvest of year (Continued from Page 1) Insects, which normally tempt farmers to use chemical sprays, did not affect the garden ad- versely. "We had just enough so that we could learn about them" said another worker. Collections were made of all insects found, from which stu- dies will be made to determine how to encourage or discourage a beneficial or harmful insect without the use of poisons. Bugs at the Community Gar- den were dealth with in several ways. Some plants were pro- tected by tearing off infected leaves, others by placing them inside glass jars. Pests also were crushed by hands, and as a last resort, gar- lic spray. The soil was enriched with compost, a natural fertilizer. Composting, or returning hu- mus to the soil, is unlike the methods of chemical fertiliza- tion which unbalance the soil's supply of nutrients. Rather than working against the.' soil, explains a gardener, "by composting and returning humus to the soil, man cooper- ates with nature." As a finale to the garden's success, a party was given for and by all who had contributed to the garden in some way. Not only were organically grown vegetables and fruits served but also a pig they had roasted in the ground. "The beauty. of it" said one participant, "was that we all shared something we all helped to create." nator, "We had more food than we really needed. The biggest thing, though, was--its social success - and the total chan e to learn about, and sense na- ture." Hunter case postponed (Continued from Page 1) The District Court of Appeals subsequently ordered Hunter to put up the bond. Feikens asked the appeals court to reconsider, but when it stuck by the ruling and Hunter failed to put up the bond, Feikens ordered that Hunter once again be removed irom the pay- roll. Counsel to Hunter, Frederic Mc- Donald, told the arbitrator that his client was dismissed because of his "militant attitude" concerning the workings of the HRD, and because of the allegedly racist attitudes of higher city officials. Lax countered that Hunter's dis- missal was not in fact "patently arbitrary or discriminatory," but was based on Hunter's "insubordi- nation, misuse of sick-leave, failure to fulfill the duties of his position and acts inconsistent with the poli- cies of his department." THE ALLEY CINEMA PRESENTS TONIGHT ONLY-THURS., OCT. 7 AKRAN dir. RICHARD MYERS Ann Arbor Film Festival Winner, 1969 "AKRAN was unquestionably the discovery of the year . ..capturing in rapid brilliant flashes the fears, the frustra- tions, the hangups, the hopes-the emotional texture of young people today." -Arthur Knight, Film Society Review ".. may be the single most important event for this year's Chicago Film Festival . . . the most influential film since Godard's early-work." 4 I -Ebert, Chicago Sun Times $1.00. SHOWS AT 7 AND 9:30 330, Maynard COMING MON.-LUIS BUNUEL'S "THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL" Sponsored by ann arbor film cooperative Protesting testing Vancouver students massed around the U.S. Consulate building yesterday to protest American nuclear tests planned for Am- chitka Island. Beach Boys: TFrom past until present EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY presents poco and DOUG KERSHAW FRIDAY, OCT. 15, 1971,8:30 p.m. Bowen Field House and o (Continued from Page 6) talgia, however, is not Parks' answer, nor the Beach Boys': A choke of grief heart har- dened I Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry At this point the group deliv- ers its solution.bSurf's up! Join the young and be free: I heard the word Wonderful thing A children's song The child is the father of the man There it is. What begins with a diamond necklace ends with a children's song. But beware! The "children" of Surf's Up are not you and me, as they are in almost every other self-congra- tulatory rock song. Let's face up to it: We haven't found the grail --- not in philosoph-rock, not in soul, not in drugs. In- stead, Parks and the Beach Boys urge us to look to the real children, the children not yet corrupted by it all. As I said before, they are our hope be- cause in each of us there is that germ of innocence. And the legacy of the Beach Boys may be their ability to reach the naivite smothered be- neath the stern facade of our understandably humorless gen- eration. They don't prescribe detachment. On the contrary, they performed an hour set atj the May Day Demonstration last spring and even cancelled three tour dates to play a bene- f it for the Berrigan Defense 2 DAYS B.B. KING HOWLIN WOLF FRI.-HILL AUD.-9 P.M. $2.50-$3.50-$4.50 Tickets: Mich. Union Salvation Records 330 Mavnard, 1 103 S. Univ. Fund. But at the same time they've retained their innocence and their integrity. On the one hand,. they've recorded a clean Louie, Louie, a Christmas Al- bum, and had their fan club address on the album jackets. On the other hand, they've pro- duced incredibly sophisticated music that places Brian Wilson among the geniuses (I use that word advisedly) of pop. Without them the world would be that much gloomier. Who knows? Without them k we might not be able to make it. Like I said, it's very myster- ioso. Female try-outs for GODDARD HOUSE PLAYERS Call: MICHAEL SAMMUTT 764-7920 DIAL 8-6416 MEET GINGER- Her weapon is f her body...Sheer' can cut you, kill you or cure you4.4 COLOR by Deluxe 5 NY SHOWS TODAY AT 7:00-9:00 p.m. SOON "Hellstrom Chronicle" JOHN DENVER I of a 0 41 a Rent your Roommate with a Classified Ad p i BUILD 611111.- is petitioning new mem- bers. Those who have ex- perience in advertising or business managing should be sure to sign at the Cinema Guild ticket desk this week. STARTS FRIDAY 71 ICIA I I tonite MIKE SMITE country & country west music FRI. & SAT.- ~E ern The Place to Meet INTERESTING People Bach Club PRESENTS: A program of works by Bach, Hayden and Fran- ceschini, played by So- prano, Trumpet, P i a n o and Harpsichord. Kate McGarrigle & Smoke Dawson 11 I II I I KatiMc arnyi& I -:vi :"ii ;":;:. : {":" %: :.. 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