Here’s 1 Sex Lesson Everyone Could Stand To Learn From 'Love Is Blind'

If there’s one thing this season of Netflix’s dating show “Love Is Blind” has taught us, it’s that conversations about birth control methods can be complicated and too often misconstrued (that, and to be careful about who you claim as your celebrity look-alike on national television.)

On the sixth season of the popular reality show, couple Johnny McIntyre and Amy Cortés, both 28, gently butt heads over what kind of contraceptives they should use to avoid having kids for the time being: Johnny specifically is “terrified” that one mistake would lead to a “Johnny Jr.” because raising a child is expensive and they’re not at that point in their relationship.

Johnny, clearly a product of our nation’s spotty-at-best sex education programs, figures Amy is already on hormonal birth control, like every other woman he’s been with.

“I always thought that, like, everyone was on birth control. 100%. Like, I was so ignorant on that,” he tells fellow cast member Laura Dadisman, noting that all the women he’s talked to have complained about being on it.

After the string of episodes aired, Amy went on Instagram to clear a few things up: She said that she never felt pressured by Johnny to use birth control and that in an unaired segment of the show, she explained to him she has “a rare genetic hereditary disorder that affects the blood vessels in [her] body,” which affects her desire to have children.

She was also concerned about how her body would react to hormonal birth control. (Though the pill is generally safe, everybody is different, and some people on oral contraceptives experience mood swings, headaches, nausea, low libido and blood clots.)

“Johnny’s fear about the whole kids situation is the biggest roadblock to intimacy,” Amy