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A Birth Control Pill for Men? In Your Dreams

Seeded on Sun May 16, 2010 1:21 PM EDT
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health, birth-control, contraception, the-pill, male-contraception
Seeded by Vincent Bartning
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Now that the balloons have come down from 50th-birthday celebrations of the Pill, I want to delicately point out the elephant in the room on biological destiny: Women remain the only ones in charge of preventing pregnancy...

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Vincent Bartning

I suppose a male contraception in the form of a pill’s different than the previous article’s method, but Jeez it shows women on their high horses, and they must all be mares or broodmares reproducing like one-celled animals, asexually, all daughter-cells, none of this poor grammar “he or she said” crap, right?!? Hey, my great-grandmother, Dr. Beatrice Gelber, worked with one-celled animals and was mentioned in the book, Great Men of American Science. Go figure! If Woman’s asexual, not sexual, what about the men who have reproduced with them in my lifetime?

Along with the doubling-up on the third-person singular for supposedly sexual humans in the USA, sex and reproduction in my lifetime’s been kind of the opposite the way it should be on all levels. My grandfather who was KIA in World War II had the surname Rich, so I can see getting richer being less ambiguous than having more riches. Moreover, instead of Washington being there like Roosevelt promised, it’s often been with the other side so far. Americans who reproduced during the Baby Boom also did so during the second one and so on whereas Bartnings and Riches who lost their male in war, World War II and Korea respectively, could not. With my cousin, Louis Bartning, KIA in Korea, the only male in the family there were no Bartning males born in the USA during the Baby Boom.

It hasn’t been like Harry Harrison’s 1966 sci-fi book either, Make Room! Make Room!, the one they based Soylent Green on. It hasn't been "love American style," nor "truth, justice, and the American way," just worse than anarchy or something. Birth choices have been in the wrong hands, at least in effect for my posterity. What’s wrong with guys exercising choice too, helping correct matters if possible? Is it just the method, a pill rather than using ultarsound in the previous article I seeded?

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Reply#1 - Tue May 25, 2010 1:17 PM EDT
Rochelle-2280835

I smile as I read this. Fertility clinics exist for those who think they can plan pregnancies. All others pretty much want to prevent pregancies so when I read the emotions expressed from one gender to another as they blame each other, I'm reminded that once in the throws of passion, the thought of unwanted kidlums are not occupying the sheets with the lovers involved.

Regarding the birth control pill for females and males, like any medicine, they come with contraindications. This will continue to be an issue, much like the toilet paper issue, which way it should be put in its receptacle. Not to be trivialized, though, I have this one thing to say to those that know they will fool around. Be protected in every way you can because you will have to live with the consequences. Children deserve to be loved, those planned and those unplanned. They deserve parents that won't resent their appearance into this world. That's all for now.

Rochelle (formally of Image Quest Salon)

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Reply#2 - Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:30 PM EDT
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