That meant that Ray and I could skip the foreplay part altogether (which is something that we rarely ever did), and get right down to business. Sex A little while after Ray had finished unloading his whole wad of sperm deep inside of my vagina, I finally came back down to earth enough to tell him, “Honey, I think we’ve got a problem. But Ray obviously did, because he was still peeing full-force between my legs into the toilet bowl. For those of you who may not be too familiar with the rhythm method of birth control, here’s a quick overview:
The rhythm method is based on the fact that a woman or girl normally can’t get pregnant during the first 7 days of her menstrual cycle, which starts on the first day of her period. The point I’m trying to make is that, although it did require much more discipline and self-restraint than any other form of birth control that Ray and I ever used, this combination of natural-style birth control systems worked flawlessly for Ray and me over the course of 3 full years–all the way up until that “special day” in the summer of 1991, when the wheels finally came off. About two-thirds of the way into our super-energetic and hopefully-unsuccessful baby-making attempt, this experience turned into a classic “be careful
