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She concedes that the pullout method is risky, but, she continues, “For the longest time I used the pill and condoms because I was terrified of getting pregnant. The older I get, the less scared I am. I’ve had an abortion” — when she was on the pill, actually — “and it’s not the end of the world.” These days, she’s more comfortable going condomless than her steady partner is. “The older I get, the more deserving I feel of pleasure,” she says. “When I was younger, men would be like, ‘It’s so much better to have sex without a condom!’ But it’s also more pleasurable for me. The more I connect with my sexual desire, the more I want to have sex without a condom.” And without hormones. And that means pulling out.
Looking out on the morning rain…
Well, now we have proof. There are people who practice NFP with a “contraceptive mentality.”
If they were practicing NFP, they wouldn’t be having sex at all!
Groan.
\\”That’s a negative, Ghost Rider. The pattern is full.”
Alright then, it’s the Pull and Pray method, with a dash of abortion to make it sizzle. The onus is on Onan.
What I don’t get, is why do they always have to give em a name like “The Pull out Generation?” Do they really think this is the only generation to try it? We’re meeting these people for the first time?
I think abortion is the safety net – you know, in case God doesn’t hear your prayer not to be pregnant.
Anytime you see the BLANK generation, it’s often olds looking at youngs and shaking their heads – wasn’t that what Gertrude Stein was doing to the Lost Generation? This is the Pill Generation looking at Kids Today and saying, “We fought so hard, and now you’re just tossing it off, er, away.”
Either that, or it’s just New York trolling for hits.
That should’ve been the lede.
Scattered instead of buried?
Scattered but not sown.
Sounds like a parable….
Oh, I’m merely complaining about my lot in life.
We seem to be made to suffer.
‘Nothing to be done.’
‘Bleep *whistle* bleep-bloop.‘
‘Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!’
“With period-tracker apps, charting your menstrual cycle is no longer the domain of hippies [insert:, hyper-fanatical Catholics,] and IVF patients.”
It’s fascinating how this rubs right up against Humanae Vitae while being both blissfully ignorant of–and obscenely contrary to–it.
Aw look, now women can use their partners for sex whether or not the other gets any pleasure out of it! Equality for everyone!
Which reminds me of this recent discussion about another recent debacle of social mores…
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2013/09/i-am-not-huge-fan-of-abortion-but-we.html
JOB
Alfie is kid’s stuff.
Now you’re just showing off.
How many people here would wish for the RAV 4 Genie’s phone number and do you think she uses protection?
And it’s a great commercial exactly because it shows how far we’ve come in equality: Only the twice-dumb guy has to work for his wish. Get it?
Everything is so easy for Pauline and Barbara and Jenny and Steve (that is, if he ever finishes the hormone replacement therapy) and…
JOB
Required reading: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10176119-harrison-bergeron
That’s fine, I would rather work for it. I know that in many states you have to earn over 30K to do better than welfare. In some states a lot more than that. It’s better to work because you have self-respect and your kids learn about work (But-monkey alert: not everyone is able to work and we are all blessed beyond what we deserve.)
By the way, I have the movie of that short story if you want to borrow it. It’s pretty good.
More here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymBRSUfz9U
Great post, thanks.
I don’t even have a TV, so I guess I’m extremely naive about what is permissible nowadays, but the other night I was watching Master and Commander with friends when a heinous commercial for some product that Trojans makes came on. It was in a nice, clean little neighborhood called Pleasureville where everyone is happy and has their hair blown back by whatever it is you do with whatever it is. What really disturbed me about it was the cheery, Happy Valley atmosphere of the commercial. It could have been an episode of Leave it to Beaver. Nothing sordid or embarrassing or back corner about it. No suggestion that it’s not just normal, mainstream viewing.
It almost makes germ warfare look appealing.
Save us.
AMDG
Well, the end of the ad does specify that they provide discreet shipping.
We are masters and commanders of nature, but not our domain.
That’s true, but the hair’s a dead giveaway.
AMDG