Comments on: Coitus interruptus and the disappearing diaphragm

By: DNW

DNW — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:37:26 +0000

” Michael Adams Says:
January 25th, 2016 at 11:44 am

We thought that the sponges were wonderful, after a couple of decades of condoms. Now, we just regret the chances we missed of having more children. The two who made it into this world have been wonderful. However, parents of our generation (b.1950) gave us the distinct impression that children were a burden. We knew we wanted a child or two, but David Rockefeller’s protege, Paul Ehrlich, convinced us that more than one was irresponsible. It was surely not the only lie to fool us, but it was most definitely part of the tissue of lies that, once we realized what had been done to us, contributed greatly to our rightward shift. We wonder, now, what is in store for us as we age, and how we can defend ourselves from it.”

Speaking of Ehrlich, the Population Bomb, overpopulation, and those high school assembly hall consciousness raising sessions of the ’70s which informed students that it was your duty not to reproduce, one notes that the Ehrlichian alarm over fulminating population increases does not seem to extend to concern over increasing the population through illegal immigration.

In fact it is assumed as a matter of principle that it not be. Some types of population increase are not so much a threat to man’s fate, the ecological balance, or social justice … or something.

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:44:15 +0000

We thought that the sponges were wonderful, after a couple of decades of condoms. Now, we just regret the chances we missed of having more children. The two who made it into this world have been wonderful. However, parents of our generation (b.1950) gave us the distinct impression that children were a burden. We knew we wanted a child or two, but David Rockefeller’s protege, Paul Ehrlich, convinced us that more than one was irresponsible. It was surely not the only lie to fool us, but it was most definitely part of the tissue of lies that, once we realized what had been done to us, contributed greatly to our rightward shift. We wonder, now, what is in store for us as we age, and how we can defend ourselves from it.

By: Mamaof2

Mamaof2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 02:09:32 +0000

It is disappearing. I’m not a young ‘un at 36, but I am still interested in contraception. Last fall, when I discussed it with my midwife after giving birth, I was shocked when she told me she’d never fitted a diaphragm. Then the pharmacy told me they didn’t stock them, and they’d have to figure out if they could find one for me. (They did.) I was really surprised too that this form of contraception had been abandoned. So few risks compared to the others! I looked into Lea’s Shield and the cervical cap while I was waiting to see if they could find me a new one, and my main observation was that their failure rate after a vaginal delivery was bad – apx 25%. All are listed at a 5-10% failure rate prior to giving birth, but the diaphram doesn’t change after delivery.

By: GRA

GRA — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:40:51 +0000

@ CV: Good observation about the “all natural” movement yet ABC is probably the most unnatural thing, but it’s highly lauded and encouraged. Bizarre indeed, and sad.

By: geokstr

geokstr — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 19:00:33 +0000

That is, they’re opting that their male partners opt for it, because unless things have changed an awful lot since I was young, it’s more a man thing.

Ah, neo, it is not so bleak though for the males now as it once was when I was young. A much larger % of women, in some countries and circles a large majority, in today’s world are not only willing, but enthusiastic, to engage in BJ Clinton’s not-sex. Many men no longer have to beg or wait for Christmas or their birthdays anymore, and I read somewhere that it has even replaced the teenage first-date kiss, and it goes both ways too.

You can of course be forgiven for not knowing, unless that old criticism of Jewish girls really was just a myth all along.

😉

By: CV

CV — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 15:32:31 +0000

PG:

Ha ha, as a Seinfeld fan I see what you did there:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQBKB4s1ks

By: Pervy Grin

Pervy Grin — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 07:42:04 +0000

What about the sponge? I guess this post wasn’t spongeworthy.

By: parker

parker — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 06:32:05 +0000

Wow! I may be a prude, though I/we for 47 years remain sexually active (yes I can still get it up without viagra). After the 3rd child, 32 years ago, I had a vasectomy. Shooting blanks does not diminish the pleasure of shooting blanks.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:54:45 +0000

My dad, the research biologist, was not enthusiastic about the Pill, when it first came out and in regard to the use of it by my younger sister and I. I do recall that the question did come up. Our family was rather … freewheeling about topics of general interest. Reproductive medicine was not his specialty, but he was adamant that blindly messing about with human hormone levels was just not a good idea. Dad had also been adamant that we not drink commonly available soft drinks when we were kids because he worried about the effects of cyclamate.

As for birth control methods – yes, I opted for a diaphragm as about the safest, in combination with taking note of the calendar … back in the day when I did need such precautions.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 01:32:11 +0000

I wonder if many moderns are not very concerned if an egg does get fertilized, and simply run off to their druggist for an RU485 pill the morning after?

Once the Lovely Mrs. Firefly explained to me how the pill works; tricking a woman’s body into thinking it’s pregnant 12 times a year, I understood why she didn’t want to be on it. It seems like that can’t be good for one’s body, long-term.