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The Center for Disease Control stated in their most recent “Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance” report that “STDs are one of the most critical health challenges facing the nation today. The CDC estimates that there are 19 million new infections every year in the United States…Many are increasingly resistant to treatment.” Ongoing budget cuts in the public health sector have created gaps in contraceptive coverage.
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“10% of Lucky Bloke’s sales go to urgent humanitarian causes. Subscribers can choose which cause their share of sales supports. Current options include: charity: water, It Gets Better Project, and UNICEF.”
This right here is perhaps the most awesomest thing about the whole thing. Yes, I did just say most awesomest.
Sex with a condom is far too limiting. The technology is very primitive. The difference is striking, like the difference between a live Lincoln Center performance of “La Traviata”, and home video rental.
This needs to be addressed at the technology level. Condoms are as much a barrier to intimacy, as they are to disease. Until this changes, nobody is going to want to use them.
Well, that pretty much sums up what I figure a lot of men’s issues are with being told that condoms are a way to control their reproductive rights. “I don’t like how it feels.”
Neither do most women like how getting an IUD feels, or Norplant, or putting a cervical cap in and out with spermacide ( and the subsequent yeast infections that can happen), or the hormonal craziness of getting the right pill (nausea, breakthrough bleeding, headaches, weight gain, depression).
Too bad for all of us. We all need to deal with the various discomforts if we want to control pregnancy.
Or get a vasectomy/tubal. Which does not mean you’ve cut off your manhood/womanhood, get over that too.
These are the things we have. If you want to use them, more power to you! You’ve controlled an aspect of your reproductive health, but I’ve met far too many women and men both who whine about how this or that just doesn’t feel good and keep playing russian roulette with sex. And some of them get pregnant and then there is drama out the ass.
You’ve got tools. They aren’t ideal. Neither are ours. We need to use them to prevent disease, to take care of each other’s bodies, to avoid pregnancy. And then we need to push hard to get better tools.
These are separate issues. The article was about disease prevention.
The issue with contraception is very different. Even if better technology is available, current male contraceptives are not private. This means that a man cannot control his fertility without the knowledge and consent of his partner.
If both partners are in agreement about fertility, there is no gender issue and there is no power imbalance (aside from convenience and general equality principles). The important question is: what happens when there is NOT agreement about fertility?
The answer is, when there is NOT agreement about fertility, the female partner will prevail. The male has no choice, no power, and no options.
It is not only men who “don’t like the way it feels.” How is a man to argue with a long term partner who says “I am on the pill, you don’t need to put that on, and I don’t like the way it feels.” Either the man tells his partner that he thinks she is a poisonous liar, or he acquiesce to her desires. Men are forced to trust, women are not.
Men don’t want to have children, but we have no private way to control our fertility. This means millions of men are forced into fatherhood because of birth control options that they do not have. This manifests itself as convenient contraceptive “failures” which impose the desires of the female over the desire of the male.
In other words, what men want is ONE contraceptive option that has two characteristics:
1) Private
2) Reversible
Convenience is an adoption issue. If it “feels” good, it will be use more. If not, less.
The absence of ANY method is a civil rights issue. Men have nowhere to hide, no alternative, no options, no defence.
Well then we’d best get working on that yes? Women would like similar things in terms of their contraception. But still, STD’s don’t go away just because men and women have better BC options. In fact, they’d increase with out some kind of barrier method unless people commit to monogamy. You have condoms and vasectomies, we’ve got oral BC and things you stick in your vagina. If we want better, I’d suggest quitting all the hyperbole and looking for pragmatic solutions.
“You have condoms and vasectomies, we’ve got oral BC and things you stick in ..”
Are you suggesting that there is a symmetry in available BC options for men and women? Your list of male BC methods is exhaustive, as there are no other methods for men. In contrast, there are dozens of BC options for women.
The mythical parity that you suggest is no more real than fairies and flying horses.
Oh come on. I don’t think it’s equitable at all. I’m pointing out its flawed but that there are indeed tool and that if we want new ones we should work together.
I think what Julie is trying to focus on, at least in that initial comment, was that the “it doesn’t feel good,” aspect to it applies to both men and women. Men do need more options (in particular some sort of pill). That is something we all agree on. It should be a higher priority and there should be more financial support for developing a usable male pill. Yes. Agreed.
Julie was simply pointing out that the complaint about condoms (specifically), that they don’t feel good, also applies to protection methods used by women, too. And there are plenty of women who use that excuse as well. Protecting against STIs means using a barrier, which at the moment mostly involves condoms, dental dams, and latex gloves (well in some lesbian circles). All of those things reduce sensation…for everyone involved. So here’s thing – until we develop some sort of barrier protection that doesn’t create a loss of sensation – everyone’s just going to have to deal with what we’ve got.
I see. I guess I think of TGMP as an old farts hang out. You are right, I would not want any 20-something men or women readying “condoms are as much a barrier to intimacy …”
It was an irresponsible thing to say, and I should have thought better of it.
I don’t get it. Why do you want it private? If you have a “longterm partner” you do not trust at this level, I suggest the better option is to insist using a condom or to not have sex at all.
I agree that “better technology” would be nice – also for disease prevention – but I’m not hearing any bright ideas in this area.
So as a result of playing too much Mass Effect 3…I’m thinking that a sci-fi forcefield barrier thing is in order. That’s my bright idea anyway….I’ll be hanging out in the year 2500, just give me a ring if you want any more ideas.
lol
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