birth control rant
i've recently come to the conclusion that all women everywhere should go on strike -- we should refuse to have sex with any man until some scientist person invents a form of hormonal or long-term birth control option for men
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2. i have tried a female condom and hated it. and for male condoms, i do get to say that i have tried it. maybe i wasn't the one who had it on their body, but i was the one who was to spend the next coming weeks waiting nervously for my period to come. the guy wears it for all of what, twenty minutes? i get to worry for weeks.
3. yeah, i am pretty nervous about getting an iud. it doesn't sound like a particularly fun experience, but i'm kind of being backed into a corner here. it's the only hormone-free, non-barrier method of birth control that really has any promise. but, it can also make me infertile, bleed for months, and the iud can escape out of my uterus and float around my body and cause organ failure. do you see why i am angry?
4. condoms are ridiculous. i hate them, you hate them, everybody hates them. they are impractical and they kill the mood. plus, they cannot be trusted.
5. i don't think that condoms or a vasectomy are good options for guys. i think that there needs to be hormonal methods for both men and women. i'm not at all saying that the options for women should be thrown out the window and birth control should be up to the man, not at all. i just think there should be options for both. it's not fair if all of the options for a woman, like myself, work by causing uncomfortable side effects. there should at least be options for men. or they need to make better birth control for women. whatever a couple decides to use should be up to them.
6. when i was on birth control, i didn't enjoy sex. i had no sex drive. i didn't want to have sex, be touched or even looked at sometimes. loss of libido is a side effect of all hormonal birth control. birth control pills also can have a very drying effect on a lot of women. so, i would definitely say that HBC can cause women to not enjoy sex. not to mention the other side effects: possibility of a stroke, blood clots, infertility, cancer, etc.
7. this is true. however, the inconvenience of having to make a doctor's appointment to get HBC is a pain in the ass. plus, don't forget dispensing fees at the pharmacy. condoms are available without a prescription. they can also be picked up for free at many local clinics. HBC cannot.
8. it's not my fault you don't have the option. you fucking should.
9. they can put a man on a moon, teach robots to lie and cure practically every disease known to man... they can figure it out. they just need to try harder.
10. you are right on this one. women do love the cock. just take a look at the other comments on this post. i'm just playing about the strike. i couldn't actually do it, and i don't expect any other women to be able to do it. i am just trying to express my immense frustration in a lighter way, by withholding sex, because that's what women do. we withhold things.
11. haha, i had to google this one. in any case, i am not trying to say that condoms are an enjoyable experience for men. they aren't an enjoyable experience for women, either. i am just saying that i would rather have a less than perfect sexual experience than having hives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. so, FUCK YOU. no body likes condoms. this is why they need to invent something better.
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2. Pff. Then I've "tried" the pill. It absolutely is who puts something in or on their body. You've tried using a condom as the method of birth control in a sexual encounter, you haven't actually used a condom [on your penis]. Also, twenty minutes, ha.
3. I do see why you're angry. You've been pretty royally screwed. And I don't think I'm capable of truly comprehending the position you're in. I just live life in ignorant bliss, assuming every woman is one some sort of presumably hormone-based birth control.
4. I really didn't realize the hatred of condoms went to both genders, I've learned something reading these responses, who knew (though it would explain a lot). And while sure, you can't trust condoms, to be fair, you can't trust a whole lot when it comes to sex. You can't trust that fucking without protection will get you pregnant when you're trying for a baby. You can't trust someone who says they're "totally clean" (except, just for the record, me, everyone should absolutely trust me if I say that). Condoms... meh.
5. I think everyone should just be sterilized, with gonad samples saved. That way, when you want a kid, it's a simple procedure that's almost assured to work; there's no unwanted pregnancies; and we can prevent stupid people from reproducing... okay, that's pretty terrible on a moral level, but... probably a smart idea. Imagine if Jersey Shore was a historical document, not just reality of the kind of douchebags who go to the clubs.
6. Touche. Though to be fair, everything causes cancer.
7. Then write your congressman (or, y'know, what we have in Canada). Why isn't birth control free? Hell, why aren't all drugs free? Why do you even need a prescription to obtain HBC?
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9. They can't cure cancer, they can't cure AIDS, they can't even cure the cold, expecting them to create some drug that can magically make the body do something completely unnatural like not produce sperm while still producing testosterone, or somehow making sperm not enter the ejaculate, is pretty crazy. Even though there are a bunch of birth control drugs for men being tested, I still have a hard time believing it's possible. And the fact that most of those drugs cause "reversible infertility" worry me. Even if it is supposedly reversible, causing infertility is worrisome.
10. See, that's the thing. I could totally go on a sex strike (not that I'm exactly getting it all the time or anything). And that's just one more reason why men are superior to women.
11. Fuck condoms.
12 (yeah, I'm adding one). I think we should look at some of the birth control options you haven't mentioned. There's the, uh, calendar method, which according to Wikipedia, is actually pretty good, with perfect use it's more reliable than condoms [with typical use], not that I'd trust that though. There's abortions, which is apparently used as a primary form of birth control in Russia, Turkey, and the Ukraine, and if it works for a bunch of eastern Europeans, I'm sure it can work for Canadians! And, of course, there's my favourite method: the pull-out/facial method. Quite frankly, used in conjunction with abortion birth control, I think it's probably the most enjoyable, most reliable form of birth control.
3 (again). I found a picture of the trilobite IUD:
You can find many more (and a picture of Pamela Anderson, for some reason) here.
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3 (again). that thing looks fucking horrifying. i don't even think that would fit inside of me. obviously, i don't know what the scale is of that particular iud, but it looks really big. really wide. i'm like freaking out about getting something (that looks like) half the size of that thing. ughhh, now i am going to be freaking out for the next two weeks that when it's time to get this thing, that it's not going to fit. THEN WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!?!?!?
to be honest, i would really like to get my tubes tied. my doctor, mom and boyfriend all think this is a pretty awful idea, but personally, i think it would be wonderful. i am very against having children for so many different reasons (selfishness about giving up my life, moral reasons, i don't want to get fat and have a flappy vagina, etc) that it would just be so much easier than having to go through all this shit.
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3. Luckily, they discontinued that thing for a reason.
Unnumbered. For a while I was seriously considering getting a vasectomy. I had heard they were pretty reversible and all good.... then I found out that there was a pretty high chance of making everything involved with sex painful and a pretty low chance of reversal success. But if you don't ever want to have a child, tubal ligation might not be a bad plan...
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