Table 1.

A list of the most frequently used terms in e-mails sent to the website

Category	Emails (proportion of emails received)	Terms used on website	Most common terms used by authors of emails	Emails where term is used
Emergency contraception	710 (62.2%)	emergency contraception, EC, emergency contraceptive pills, ECPs, brand names	ECP brand names	163
			emergency contraception, emergency contraceptive	145
			morning after pill	128
			the pill, this pill	125
			ECP	119
			EC	96
			emergency contraception pill	56
			EC pill	30
			the emergency pill	16
			other terms, including: 72-hour pill, 24-hour contraceptive, postcoital pill, pills of the day after, the night after kind of pills, Plan B form of the pill, morning pill, after pills, emergency anti-pregnancy drug, and high dosage pill	90
Other contraceptive methods	446 (39.3%)	birth control pills, progestin-only pills, combined pills, oral contraceptives, regular birth control pills, contraception, other forms of contraception, pill and pills, condom, IUD, copper-T, brand names	oral contraceptive brand name	152
			condom	144
			birth control	76
			the pill, the Pill	75
			birth control pill	67
			contraception, contraceptive	31
			protection	19
			the shot	10
			injection, injectable	10
			the patch, birth control patch	10
			other terms, including: withdrawal, Depo, IUD, diaphragm, OCs, OCPs, BCPs, female condoms, the coil, Copper IUD, spermicide, and “that stuff that kills the sperm”	80
Sexual acts	422 (37.2%)	sex, intercourse, sexual intercourse, sexual activity Non-consensual sex: sexual assault, rape, forced to have sex	sex	312
			intercourse	85
			sexual intercourse	14
			doing it, did it	6
			vaginal intercourse	3
			the sexual act	2
			other terms including: love-making, that act, hooking up, relations, slept together, infidelity, oral sex, anal sex, hand job, fingered, doing foreplay, outercourse, the whole sexual thing, enter me, “kinda had sex,” “I went in like twice but I didn’t ejaculate,” incident, anything, and session.	47
Bleeding	321 (28.3%)	bleeding, period, menstrual period	period	256
			bleed, bleeding or blood	78
			menstruation	24
			cycle	20
			spotting	16
			menstrual period	3
			menses	2
			other terms, including rag, flow, my courses, a little stain, and shedding lining.	35
Ejaculation	117 (10.3%)	ejaculation	ejaculate, ejaculation	81
			come, came	15
			cum (verb)	11
			orgasm	2
			other terms, including climax, shoot the sperm, busted (“busted in me” or “busted a nut”), discharged, and injectculation.	14
Sexual organs	92 (8.1%)	(none)	male organs:
			penis	12
			it	5
			other terms: dick, mine, private, him (as in “when I felt him he was dry”)	4
			female organs:
			in, inside	66
			vagina	20
			vulva	3
			other terms, including private, kooch, buttox area, and “down there.”	7
Sexual fluids/ pre-ejaculation	63 (5.5%) 31 (2.7%)	preejaculatory fluid, sperm	sperm	38
			precum	15
			preejaculation	8
			semen	8
			preejaculatory fluid	4
			cum (noun)	3
			cervical mucous	3
			other terms, including preejaculate (noun), bodily fluids, and “seamen of man.”	23
Reproductive processes	58 (5.1%)	ovulation, implantation, fertilization, tubal transport	ovulation	35
			fertilization	16
			conception	9
			implantation	6
			other terms, including impregnation, enpregnanted egg, and embedding.	5
Fetus or embryo	24 (2.1%)	fetus	baby	11
			fetus	7
			other terms: the unborn baby, unborn child, it, incoming baby, the pregnancy, and human embryo.	6
STI	5 (0.4%)	sexually transmitted infections	STD	5