Full throttle

Welcome to Broken Rubbers, the first blog (to the best of my knowledge) that’s dedicated not only to news and information about birth control, but also to musings – mine and hopefully others’ as well – and discussion. I’m Alex and I’m a student in Houston, Texas. I stole the name “Broken Rubbers” from a group of bicyclists that get together once a week in my neighborhood, and I hope they don’t mind. I don’t think this name of this blog is quite as serious as the content will be, but I’m as much about the giggles as I am about dealing with the serious issues I want to talk about here.

I have to admit that I don’t really have the authority to write this blog. Outside of my own experience, I’m not an expert on birth control. My hope is that the blog will not only be a thorough source for news and information for my readers, but that writing it will also help me develop my expertise on the subject – thereby helping me do a better job of bringing information to you and facilitating discussion. The internet is full of self-made experts, so if the least I can do on some days is link to a news story, at least I’m getting there. With the right Google alerts and a lot of sincere dedication, I think I can make this blog worth a read.

When I say birth control, I mean every kind of sexual protection you can imagine. “Birth control” is sort of a heterosexist term the way I’m using it. STD protection is important for people of any orientation, and I want to include that in the dialogue here as well. There are also a lot of topics that are at least tangentially related to BC that I hope to touch on occasionally as well: abortion, masturbation, sex education, etc.

With all that said, onward through the fog.