This will level the playing field. No more "accidents." No more unilateral decision-making by the woman whether to have the baby. No more back-breaking child support to a woman you never married and don't even enjoy a continuing domestic partnership with. All without having to use groady, desensitizing condoms for the purpose. This will be a great boon.
Male contraception is not a feminist thing. It's a masculinist thing. It's an equal rights thing.
These BBC News articles will bring you up to speed on the approaches being tried, the clinical trials, and the latest results: Male 'pill' within four years; 'Side effect free' male pill; Male contraceptive '100% effective'; and Male contraceptive 'reversible'.
If you don't like these approaches, let the scientists keep working. The need of our half of the human race is great; and it will be met.In the meantime, men, wrap that rascal. Don't let your testosterone levels, ten times higher than women's, make you a fool.
UPDATE: WebMD via FoxNews gives us this information for women: Today's Birth Control: The Five Newest Ways to Prevent Pregnancy.
All right, men, when the scientists get safe, non-surgical, 100% effective, side-effect free and reversible contraception for males ready for market, it will be the way to go;
ReplyDeleteWake me when they get the same thing for women.
Don't get me wrong. I despise the Honey Trap as much as any man. (Okay, not any man, seeing as I've never been strongarmed into marriage by a thin pink line.) But I do cut us gals a moderate amount of slack. There isn't any such birth control for US on the market. For years we've taken pills that make us break out in pimples and extra pounds, we've had our tubes tied, had to deal with goppy diaphragms, let IUDs cut our insides to ribbons, etc. Compared to all this a bit of sheepskin on the willy can't be all bad, can it?
Ummm. I think both sides need to do embrace contraception while being carnal. Being one of the first generations whose sexual awareness coincided with AID's, condoms are necessary not just to trap the baby making stuff filtering through it.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Kat completely on giving us ladies a bit of slack. I also hate it when women use the honey trap too. I think its disgusting that anyone would do this to another person.
However, condoms are "groady" but it's just part of it.
I used to work at a battered women's shelter in Nashville. Occasionally we would get prostitutes in who would school the staff on seminars which should have been called "Fun with Condoms."
I could tell such stories. They knew everything.
Fin.
Props for using the word "masculinist."
ReplyDeleteWe should start a group called MaChO: the Male Chauvinist Organization.
I am joking, but I am also serious.