rightwinger
Award Winning USMB Paid Messageboard Poster
- Aug 4, 2009
- 287,307
- 165,755
- 2,615
I think that contraceptive drugs have freed women
I grew up in a time when women had 4-6 children. My great grandmother had nine children. Contraception has freed women to have only the children they want, to pursue other vocations than motherhood.
Why can't you do all that without having sex and getting pregnant?
How much of this is more from MEN wanting the sex
and not carrying equal responsibility as the women.
So it's the MEN who want the liberation
from the women taking responsibility for contraception.
Note: contraception still does not prevent the higher risks of
HPV and cancer, that have higher rates in women if their
male partners had multiple partners in the past. So women
are going to carry a higher burden of responsibility than men
even if they don't get pregnant, it is not going to be equal.
You have a 19th century view of sex where it is the primitive sexual urges of men that force the act. Women enjoy sex too. It is part of a normal adult relationship.
Like it or not, women have the primary responsibility for ensuring that contraception is used. If a mistake is made, THEY bear the consequences. They will bear the child and they will bear the responsibility for raising it.