What seems like the simplest form of birth control and protection from sexually transmitted disease, condoms are actually more complicated than we thought.

“We chronically underestimate how complicated condom use can be,” University of Kentucky professor Richard Crosby, who co-authored the study, said in a statement. “It involves the use of a condom, while negotiating the condom use and sex with a partner all at the same time.”

With perfect use, condoms prevent pregnancy with 98 percent success, according to the World Health Organization. Typically, however, the rate of unintended pregnancy with condoms is around 15 percent.

With proper use, condoms offer excellent protection from disease and unwanted pregnancy.

Condoms are also a highly affordable form of protection with little to no side affects which are available to everyone.

Did you know that the cost of teen pregnancies cost U.S tax payers $9 BILLION a year?

At a time when teen pregnancy is being celebrated on reality TV the actual number of teen pregnancies has fallen over the years.

Sex education has been playing a positive role in teenager’s lives.

“In 2009, around 410,000 teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth in the United States. That’s a 37 percent decrease from the teen birth rate in1991. Then, 61.8 births per every 1,000 females was a teen pregnancy. The rate has now dropped to 39.1 births per 1,000 women. Yet according to the United Nations, the rate of teen pregnancy in the United States is nearly nine times higher than in the majority of other developed nations.”