Considering all the attention on contraception and cost of birth control pills I started to wonder whatever happened to so-called “safe-sex”? For years liberals have been lecturing us on condoms and their many wonders in making things safe. They have charged popes with murder for not allowing them and even have legislated porn stars to wear them.
I guess they don’t believe their own propaganda regarding condoms. After all they are much cheaper than birth control pills and no side effects other than sin. There are certainly some using both condoms and the birth control pill as a backup, but even this shows they don’t trust condoms. Here they are worried about a “unintended” pregnancy which can occur during a narrow windows yet an STD could be contacted at any time during the month.
Maybe some of the demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement who threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls could throw some Ms. Fluke’s way. Somehow I don’t think those who are crying about birth control pill costs would much like the suggestion to buy condoms instead. I guess condoms are good enough to preach to school age kids, but not good enough for them.
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Condoms require no prescription and no monitoring or follow-up. Other forms of contraception do, and would therefore be favored by those who wish to medicalize every human condition (analogous to those who think everyone “should be in therapy”); because such intervention by a health-care provider is required, that relationship also helps ensure compliance—a condom-user can stop purchasing/ using them and not have to account to anyone in the medical profession, but a woman who wants to go off the Pill or cease using some other form of contraception is going to have to explain herself, and likely would be steered in the “desired” direction. There’s a control dynamic involved here.
I think the reason the pill is venerated by women is that it gives women more control or “power” to prevent a pregnancy. The condom relies on a man’s cooperation. I disagree with both by the way. My wife and I have been practicing NFP for 12 years with no “surprises” to date. Seems not many people realize that a healthy woman is infertile MOST of the time.
I was having some cognitive dissonance about this myself. Especially in the context of some recent legislation requiring “actors” in the porno industry to use condoms. It’s pretty obvious at this point that this whole mandate is more about forcing Catholics to offer a grain of incense to Caesar than any actual concern about access to contraception, and about being able to say “well, you pay for it, so why do you oppose it.”
No, no, no, “safe sex” refers to and only refers to “safety from AIDS” and from nothing else, esp certainly not from pregnancy. An ideal condom freely allows the passage of sperm but not of the much tinier AIDS viruses, at least in the open-minded universe. There seems to be some kind of mandate that young people are not only expected but practically required to have sex at every opportunity, hence the rise of “friends with benefits”.
Only when the Blessed Virgin is replaced with Venus will some people be happy.
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