“Women need to take precautions if they are going to have sex without wanting children.“
These days, there is NO excuse.
I’m 60 and have NOT ONCE gotten a woman pregnant without it being planned. Nor has anyone in my immediate family or circle of friends. It’s not hard to do.
Millions of people have been NOT getting pregnant for thousands of years…
It just takes an ounce of personal effort.
Some ways are more effective than others if you insist on keeping a family small. Abstinence is most effective. If you want some spacing and don’t mind a largess family and want to keep chemicals and stuff out of it, I recommend “Ecological Breast Feeding.” At the same time, it sometimes seems to bring up the contrast between Catholics and Protestants brought out so nicely in The Meaning of Life.
There was a Catholic peer in England in the 30’s or 40’s who made the observation that the Church allowed the Rhythm method “because it doesn’t work”. Theoretically, he’s wrong on two grounds. In theory, theory and practice are the same.