A weekly look at sex and culture, by the numbers.
What a week it’s been for sex. We got to hear Rush Limbaugh apologize to “sluts” and it turns out everyone in your yoga class is doing it.
Here’s a few more sex statistics and facts for you this week:
Cost of a year’s supply of hormonal birth control: $160-$600
Average cost of a condom: <$1
Two: number of states that have eliminated their family planning programs within the last year
130,000: low-income Texan women who stand to lose Medicare-funded contraception and examination coverage as a result of the latest round of state budget cuts
$231 million: projected financial burden to state and federal taxpayers as a result of the 20,500 estimated additional babies that will be born as a result
1/4: women of reproductive age who receive health and contraceptive assistance through a publicly supported family planning center
51 to 48: vote on the Blunt Amendment, which failed to clear the Senate last week and would have allowed employers to withhold contraceptive coverage from employees’ health plans