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The Pill ruined the institution of marriage, says Raquel Welch
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | May 11, 2010 | Simon Caldwell

Posted on 05/11/2010 12:48:54 AM PDT by Stoat

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To: Theophilus
Once men can have all the sex they want with no risk of pregnancy, then females will quickly go back to their old ways of guarding the goods and making you barter, and negotiate, and work for it.

"In an economy where is is practically impossible to reproduce, men and woman will either frantically mate with as many people as often as possible or give up completely. The desire to have children is at our core. That desire is suppressed at unbearable cost."

That was one, very goofy post.

It is a male pill, the woman holds out for marriage because it will be the only control over sex, left to her.

They get married, the guy stops the pill, then kids. A male pill would return the sex balance between the sexes, back to normalcy, and tradition.

101 posted on 05/11/2010 10:39:53 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: RinaseaofDs

There is a practice of girls to do their dating at clubs that attract young professionals and better income men, the girls date and wait to see which date gets them pregnant, to see what level of the lottery that they won.
Of course this is actually just the way of modern relationships, regardless of income.

The woman still has the eternal sexuality of men within their total control, because that can’t change. What the modern American woman has now though, is total control of our legal system, culture, and social relationships, get pregnant/don’t get pregnant, abort/don’t abort, marry/don’t marry, and money is available to her every step of the way, no matter which decisions she chooses. A woman can measure the financial rewards of any particular bar pick up and mating.

Once men can easily, invisibly, stop pregnancy, then those bars will empty of females, and the dating scene will return to an area of female restraint.


102 posted on 05/11/2010 10:53:54 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Theophilus

Being able to control when they can impregnate a woman, returns the male to being the true predator of the courting world.

The female sex will never tolerate that, and they will return to the historical strategies, in regaining mastery of that field.


103 posted on 05/11/2010 11:00:26 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: driftdiver
Means nothing if abortion is available on demand.

I don't get that, once men can easily control their fertility, then pregnancy outside of marriage would mostly disappear.

It wouldn't take long for females to realize that they have lost all control and influence over sexual activity unless they start rationing their favors, which would return us to more traditional ways of courting, as quality and marriageability of men, would replace the chaos that currently exists.

104 posted on 05/11/2010 11:10:20 AM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: HIDEK6

If you don’t have the population, it becomes impossible to keep the other three.


106 posted on 05/11/2010 11:30:07 AM PDT by Flying Circus
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To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

107 posted on 05/11/2010 12:20:57 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: Theophilus
The desire to have children is at our core. That desire is suppressed at unbearable cost.

You, sir, are a wise man.

108 posted on 05/11/2010 12:31:11 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: ansel12
Vasectomy is invisible and as sterile as you can get. Outpatient procedure, too.

But I'm convinced it would not have the good effect you anticipate. It would be more of the same: triflin' men who are no more, spiritually and emotionally, than ill-raised early adolescents: doing porn, jerking off, scoring when they can; women who want babies going to the bargain-begettin'-basement at the Clinic for the requisite sperm inject.

Not the human world we were hoping for.

109 posted on 05/11/2010 12:49:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Vasectomy has been around for decades, surgery is clearly not appealing to single men, the pill is.

The female sex is not programmed to give sex for nothing, once they know that men are bulletproof and untouchable from any legal issues or consequences, then they will want to figure out some way to end that totally one way street.

My guess, is that they will go back to the timeless patterns of history.


110 posted on 05/11/2010 1:02:46 PM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Stoat

I was eleven when I saw her CBS special in 1969. I swear I aged four years on the spot.


111 posted on 05/11/2010 1:12:48 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: ansel12
I hope I'm not being entirely obtuse: I just don't get your point. Why in the world would a woman be attracted to a man who is "bulletproof and untouchable from any legal issues or consequences"? How would that make him a more desirable lover, marital candidate, or spouse?

You say that "women would want to end that totally one-way street" --- but how would women have the power to do that? If the sterile male can remain sterile as long as he desires, she's out of luck. His choice to make himself sterile will not make him more attachment-oriented, more hubandish (thus she'll be emotionally frustrated), it will not make him more family-building-oriented , more fatherly in character, habit and personality (thus she'll be maternally frustrated) --- and she won't be able to do a dang thing about it.

What in heck could she do?

He'll stay a cripple of a man ---probably go to whores or online porn --- and she'll pursue her career, save her money, buy and furnish a nice little home, and adopt a dear little girl from China.

112 posted on 05/11/2010 1:19:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ansel12

I assumed your post was a joke, too.


113 posted on 05/11/2010 1:34:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

You don’t like the way that dating and single life are today, now imagine that girls lost all control over this modern sexual buffet.

Imagine that suddenly men could take a birth control pill. It wouldn’t take long for girls to realize that they longer controlled pregnancy, and the resulting income and choices.

I think that the dating scene would change, and girls would quit servicing men, females would rediscover the importance of chastity and positioning themselves for winning the marriage competition and forcing men to commit before giving into them sexually.

We are talking about a pill here, the minute a man was not playing the field, he would stop taking the pill.

The pill would not play a role in marriage, but it would sure play a difference in singles bars, the girls would suddenly have to confront the idea that they are there purely for sex, with no chance of a 20 year income.

I don’t think that females are programmed to play the single sex scene with no chance of benefiting from it.

I think that the singles sex scene would dry up from a shortage of females, and that females would start looking at more traditional, more effective, dating strategies.


114 posted on 05/11/2010 1:35:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Tax-chick

I don’t know why you are hostile, are you always angry?, but men do have risk of pregnancy from sex, it is men that don’t know what those consequences will be until the government and the female decide what they are, but it can mean losing their child to abortion, or 20 years of support, or a pay off of millions for the female.


115 posted on 05/11/2010 1:39:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (MITT: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Morgana
I thought this was interesting, although I can't find a primary source. The University of Chicago Study results summarized divorce correlations like this:

I think it makes sense because the pill is the only one in the list that changes fundamental human nature.

116 posted on 05/11/2010 1:41:23 PM PDT by dan1123 (Free condoms for teens to have safe sex is like giving them bullet-proof vests for safe gun play)
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To: ansel12

How odd. Practically the exact same post was exchanged - you to me, me to you - but you perceive mine as hostile and angry, while I perceived yours as mildly amusing.


117 posted on 05/11/2010 1:47:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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To: leaning conservative
We live in the state w/ the highest number of single parent/ teen births in the country. I’m a big proponent of birth control, but it seems that only responsible people are using it.

You have to look at things economically. There is a set supply and demand that naturally occurs, then when you introduce birth control, you only change one of the factors. You still have a woman wanting to nurture and rear a child, and her desire for a strong man who is capable of providing, but you have removed the price restriction on sex, and now it's cheap, and untied from childbearing.

The result is an imbalance of factors that are further imbalanced by government programs looking to put a band-aid on the problem (subsidizing single motherhood). I heard that we doubled the percentage of out of wedlock births in the last 15 years even while teen birth rates are down.

118 posted on 05/11/2010 1:49:30 PM PDT by dan1123 (Free condoms for teens to have safe sex is like giving them bullet-proof vests for safe gun play)
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To: Morgana
I don’t think it is the Pill, I think it is easy divorce. When people can leave a marriage in a New York Minute they don’t think twice about trying to save it.

It could be argued that way. I myself see the pill as cause too for no fault divorce. No fault divorce was simply a product created to meet the demand created by the increased sex commodity due to no consequences.

Marriage was always celebrated and given benefit by society because of the new life -children that would result.

Marriage, children, families, and life -all these things suffer because of contraception...

119 posted on 05/11/2010 1:53:55 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: ansel12

This seems to me to be a very jaded view of male-female relationships.

It seems to me that it is from a very narrow point of view as well.


120 posted on 05/11/2010 1:54:11 PM PDT by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words: "It's too late"))
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