Posted on 07/08/2022 11:02:44 AM PDT by Morgana
LifeSiteNews) – There is something profoundly depressing about the response of many pro-abortion Americans to the fall of Roe v. Wade. As I noted in this space last month, some activists have urged women to engage in a “sex strike” to protest pro-life laws. While this news is humorous in one regard – it turns out feminists do think abstinence works! – it is also a sad reflection on a culture that is willing to openly admit that sexual freedom is purchased with the blood of babies. What they are essentially saying is this: If we can’t kill off any children conceived through sex, we might as well give up on sex altogether.
A recent article in Insider titled “Swearing off men and avoiding intimacy: Gen Z reconsiders sex in the wake of a post-Roe world” makes this point explicitly, beginning with these lines:
Madeline V. might be done with men altogether. A 24-year-old marketing assistant who identifies as bisexual, Madeline, who asked that Insider use only her first name, has decided that sticking to female partners may be the safest sexual route these days.
It’s not a fear of men, exactly, that has inspired this young woman to consider swearing off an entire gender; it’s the heightened fear of an unwanted pregnancy — and a subsequent lack of options — that has forced Madeline to proceed with sexual caution in the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court decision gutting federal abortion rights protections.
Translated, that means that Madeline may swear off men because she might not be able to procure an abortion after they engaged in casual coitus. According to Insider, she’s not the only one – many members of Gen Z (those born after 1996) are “rethinking their relationship to sex, intimacy, and hookup culture.” Their responses are a gut-wrenching look at the sexual culture young people inhabit today.
One 17-year-old in Texas reported having nightmares of getting pregnant and not being able to get an abortion; others reported a “constant fear” of pregnancy. Those interviewed used terms like “angry,” “upset,” “disgust,” and “dread” to describe their reaction to the possibility of pro-life laws. Their generation, according to respondents, “is one of the most open about sex and hookup culture” and that it is simply part of their lifestyles. In short, many of them simply cannot imagine a world without abortion. As Insider put it:
[E]ver since the draft decision was leaked, Adelynn said she’s had to entirely rethink whether or not she wants to start having sex, telling Insider that she’s terrified to make a choice that could leave her with an unwanted child. Catherine D. on the other hand was already participating in hookup culture before the Supreme Court decision dropped.
Being on birth control is not an option due to the way it negatively affects her physical and mental health, Catherine said, so she’s been left to reevaluate the consequences of casual sex that have suddenly become very real. “As much as I want to have fun in my 20s, what happens to me when the fun stops? What happens to me when I might be in need of an abortion and can’t access that?”
Some are considering voluntary sterilization; others have noted that they would simply prefer not to live in Republican states (contributing to what is likely to be a continued “resorting” as Americans move to areas where their values are best respected). Unsurprisingly, one male named Cameron told Insider that he worries about getting a girl pregnant, his view of “responsibility” limited to having his child aborted rather than providing paternal support. In fact, Madeline V. “lamented many men’s seeming inability to grasp the life-altering consequences of a one-night stand.” Which…yeah, that’s a problem – and abortion isn’t the solution.
Insider’s reportage here is a tragic glimpse at how fundamentally broken hookup culture is—and how the sexual revolution and fifty years of legal abortion have profoundly damaged the relationships between men and women. Interestingly, one woman posted her own reaction to Roe’s fall online, and noted that she and her friends had reached an epiphany:
Me and some of my girlfriends did a retreat this weekend to help us cope with the monumental setback in fundamental rights. By the end of it, we had moved from sad and afraid to ANGRY. We all agreed to a pact: no having sex with any men, until he had proven himself a capable provider, and until that man had signed a contract, written on paper, agreeing to stay with us and support us if we get pregnant. We started drafting an actual contract, and we’re planning on sending it to a lawyer to make sure its legit. At this point, I am completely done with men who want to hook up and leave, its time for American men to STEP UP.
To which I say: Amen, sister. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we used to call “marriage.” It still works. It is still the context in which people are happiest, healthiest, and not incidentally have the most and the best sex. And it is also the perfect context in which to welcome, love, and nurture children. An entire generation may have forgotten this. But the truth is out there, waiting to be discovered. As T.S. Eliot wrote:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Women have control over sex.
Men have control over relationships.
When the birth control pill for men arrives, and it will soon, then the men will have control over everything.
Abstinence is the most effective birth control.
I’ve been spamming this observation all over the threads whenever Lysistrata is mentioned, but despite the obvious obscenities, at heart it’s really about marriage and family. The men were destroying their societies by a costly civil war, and their wives were forcing them to remember the comforts of home, in the most persuasive way they knew how.
When the strike ends in the play, the women make their husbands a nice dinner first before they all retire.
If you took out all the dirty jokes that the college kids like to snicker at, Lysistrata would be universally panned as blatantly misogynist and right wing.
Feminists, tell me you believe women don’t enjoy sex without telling me that women don’t enjoy sex.
THEY are worried about some guy giving them something living they don’t want? Her grandma’s vinegar and water douche still works.
I would be more afraid of them giving me something I definitely DO NOT WANT!
Every person I know who picked some round heel skank at an Oklahoma state line bar came down with either clap, crabs or worse!
Well removing themselves from the dating pool is fine by me...
Any woman who wants to use with holding sex for manipulation is a pathetic person to begin with...
One that wants to do it because of some political event isn’t to their liking is so self absorbed they are not even worth the time of day.
We guys that have had the big V should start a website for our services. Cept paper bags are getting expensive.
They are actually going to practice the safest form of birth control.
I fail to see the problem.
could it be the ones that will vote red and support this know better than to open their mouths around those 200+ big mouths?
I gave up sex with feminists decades ago.
I don’t mean any harm but have you seen pictures of some of these women?? I really don’t think a sex strike is something they have to worry about. Who knows, maybe they are trying some kind of reverse psychology- since they can’t get or haven’t had a man by making men think they are willing/desirable they can get one.
Uh...
I'm good...
“If we can’t kill off any children conceived through sex, we might as well give up on sex altogether.!”
Life Site News ^ | July 8, 2022 | Jonathon Van Maren Posted on 07/08/2022 11:02:44 AM PDT by Morgana
LifeSiteNews) – There is something profoundly depressing about the response of many pro-abortion Americans to the fall of Roe v. Wade. As I noted in this space last month, some activists have urged women to engage in a “sex strike” to protest pro-life laws. While this news is humorous in one regard – it turns out feminists do think abstinence works! – it is also a sad reflection on a culture that is willing to openly admit that sexual freedom is purchased with the blood of babies. What they are essentially saying is this: If we can’t kill off any children conceived through sex, we might as well give up on sex altogether.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077012/posts
I say this with, to quote George Costanza, “an unblemished record of heterosexuality ’ but I’ve never, ever in my entire life seen a single woman who calls for a “sex strike” over abortion or some other leftist cause du jour, whom I’d want to have sex with.’
4 posted on 7/8/2022, 11:08:36 AM by irishjuggler
The good news for America and the world continues after the fall of Roe v. Wade!
In 2-3 decades, these losers in life will not be leaving any loser off spring!
Old Man Darwin is saying, “Thanks!”
I guess Dem girls just don’t want to have fun.
On the other hand MONKEYPOX:-)
This is a perfectly moral method of birth control. Their bodies, their choices.
Most likely she is a slut, trying to do her senior class before graduation.🤓
“If we can’t kill off any children conceived through sex, we might as well give up on sex altogether.”
What they are also saying is that they would rather kill unborn babies than go though the bother of responsibly using birth control.
Sex strikes by most of the pigs I’ve seen demonstrating are unlikely to cause any men I’ve known to get frustrated!
When you have two generations raised with alley cat morality and an acceptance of the culture of death, this is what you get.
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Pope’s fault!
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