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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.
Why is a 17 yr old worried about getting pregnant ?
Perhaps it’s time for morality and propriety.
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.
They don’t enjoy it. The men think they’re in heaven and she’s aware she can get anybody to do it.
All of these girls quoted in the excerpt sound like the target market for companies that sell box wine and supplies for people who have 5 to 10 cats.
They are spiritually bound to death as an option to anything in life. Their souls need saving so that they can see how precious life is, even when it’s someone else’s. May God have mercy on their souls, and may they come to know their life-giving Savior.
When you have two generations raised with alley cat morality and an acceptance of the culture of death, this is what you get.
Lysistrata - nearly 2000 years now and hasn’t worked since
This will be great to come back to after happy hour this afternoon!
Mushmellows, haa!
“...feminists announcing ‘sex strikes’ after the fall of Roe...”
From what I’ve seen and listened to coming from them, they are girls/women who do not have to worry about some guy even asking.😊
I saw a college production of Lysistrata and it was hilarious. At one point the cast members lost it and the audience laughed histerically. It took several minutes to regain composure to complete the play.
Nah, they’re trying to get men to go along with them and protest.
WE WANT FREE SEX!!!!
That’s the truth. I saw a picture of a group carrying signs declaring a sex strike over Roe vs Wade and if any of them offered sex on the spot to me I’d take off running. They were all obese, tattooed, and looked like they hadn’t bathed in a week. It’s a myth that all men will screw anything, sex is more readily available today than it ever has been and men are turning it down from unattractive women. Strike all you want ladies, we don’t care.
Maybe these women shouldn’t be reproducing anyway.
Whores conducting a sex strike? That’s like the obese conducting an eating strike. They’ll keep riding the penis carousel...it’s what they do.
I have got 200+ new voters from my lectures this summer. Mostly female all under 30 and every one of them is livid. Texas goes blue if GenZ and GenY shows up like they say they will. These kids will we have voting on campus next to the food that’s by design for a week of early voting they all have cards or will soon since we did a mass registering event one period. Voting is ones civil duty we should have compulsory voting in the USA that way everyone has a skin in the game and every politician has to win the hearts and minds of the people not just special interest groups. Beto might be trailing by 6 points in the polls but those polls are not asking genz or geny the two combined are a.larger block than boomers by nearly.two to one. GenX could be swing votes most Xrs are done having kids but still in breeding ages so they are a toss up.
The ones freaking out the most are in states where nothing will change. CYL
Feminists promoting abstinence.
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