I remember the day birth control became free. I went to pick up my supply, ten dolla bill in hand, and they just handed it to me. I was like, HELL YES I’LL BUY SOME CANDY! (If any conservatives are reading this, that was a joke. It went directly into my stock portfolio). I imagine lots of women who struggle financially were pretty stoked when they realized they wouldn’t have to scrape together change to buy medication that can keep them from having CHILDREN THEY CAN’T AFFORD.

However, on the other side of the coin were people who thought that providing birth control for women for free would turn them into raging whores, having sex with any guy who walked by the house, just sticking their vajays out there to get demolished by any and all fellas on the street. SHOCKER: it didn’t. Since birth control became free, in fact, women were LESS likely to put out to a bunch of dudes.

Via USA Today:

Women and teen girls participating in a study that provided free birth control did not take up riskier sexual practices as a result, contrary to fears among some social conservatives, a new report says.

The participants were less likely to have sex with more than one man after the program began. And though they did have sex a bit more often, they were no more likely to be diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases, according to results published online Thursday in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The same study, involving 9,256 girls and women in the St. Louis area, previously showed the free birth control program dramatically reduced abortions and unintended pregnancies.

The latest findings should dispel “the idea that the only thing standing between women and promiscuity is a fear of pregnancy,” says project director Gina Secura, a researcher at Washington University.

How strange, huh? Some peeps thought that once women were allowed equal access to the pill (or any other form of birth control), that they’d hop from bed to bed like some sort of sex-crazed tooth fairy. But no – turns out women just wanted some assurance in their CURRENT LIFESTYLE that they wouldn’t get preggers every time they decided to have sex. Wow. Incredible. So shock. Much amaze.

Here are the stats from the study:

• 3.3% reported more than one partner the previous month, down from 5.2% at the beginning of the study.

• 16% increased their numbers of partners — most often from zero to one.

• The median number of times women had vaginal intercourse in a month was six, up from four.

• Rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia were the same among women who increased their sexual frequency and those who did not.

• 46% who were virgins at the beginning of the study were still virgins, despite their earlier intentions to start having sex.

Hopefully this will help certain people realize they were wrong about women being big ol’ skanks just looking for an easy D, but probably not. These are the same people who think chick’s bodies can “shut down pregnancies” on their own, after all.