Posted on 05/11/2010 12:48:54 AM PDT by Stoat
Raquel Welch has blamed the Pill for the decline of the institution of marriage.
The Hollywood actress said the widespread use of oral contraceptives had led to a breakdown in sexual morality and fuelled the growth of rampant promiscuity among the young.
Miss Welch, 69, said the situation has grown so grave that 'these days nobody seems able to keep it in their pants or honour a commitment'
While she argued that it carried some benefits, she said the enduring legacy of the Pill has been social anarchy.
Miss Welch has been a sex symbol since she sprang to international fame for her role in the 1966 film One Million Years BC - and was voted by readers of Playboy magazine as 'the most desired female of the 1970s'.
But in an article to mark the introduction of the Pill to the U.S. market 50 years ago, she distanced herself from the fruits of the sexual revolution of which she was a part. 'The growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values,' she said in an article for television channel CNN entitled 'It's SexO'Clock in America'. A positive consequence of the Pill was it had 'made it easier for a woman to choose to delay having children until after she established herself in a career', she said. Miss Welch, who has three failed marriages behind her, added that a 'significant and enduring' effect on women was the idea that they could have sex without any consequences - with the result that fewer today saw marriage as a 'viable option'.
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Must...keep....mind....out....of....gutter....
God Blessed us all with the ability to exercise self-control.
And He also put some on this earth to test it.
yeah as a woman i’ve always felt thy sorrow is my monthly visit
Well, soon I hope and pray. Don't abhor the pill but embrace the mentality behind it. Abstinence is required but marital indulgence is so much better.
Well thanks! I’m counting my chickens a little bit since #10 is T - 1 Month but the ultrasound shows she is almost 5 pounds and beautiful.
OK, one month to go so next month. /sheepish.
The sad truth.
Pregnancy is a beautiful benefit. So I agree.
So men can’t insist they wear a condom?
I read somewhere that she credits, at least in part, her daily ballet lessons as a child with helping her attain her breathtaking figure.
Beyond that, avoiding smoking, excessive drinking and too much sun will probably do a lot toward helping anyone retain a youthful appearance later in life.
It's shocking and terribly sad to see so many young women that spend a lot of time in bars who at age 30 could easily pass for 50
I hope that everyone knows that I do not point that out as an issue of fairness, or competition, or any of that kind of shallow guy versus chick, stuff.
What I am talking about is that it came about as a recent disruption in the natural equilibrium of the two sexes in America, it has wreaked havoc on single women, and introduced sexual, and financial chaos into the dating and mate choosing process (welfare support is part of that), and all of that has caused the social and cultural problems that we all talk about so much.
The only thing that can send us back to the centuries of normalcy, is men suddenly being able to easily control when they impregnate during the sexual act, that will stir female instincts to come up with counter strategies, which naturally, are the old tried and true ones, when men controlled the results of pregnancy, which in effect gave them total power over their sex actions.
Condoms, as ineffective as they are, have been around for centuries.
Evidently making love to a glove, has never appealed to men.
I don't know what the "sex balance" is. But physiologically, everyone that wants to have sex wants to reproduce. If their mind does not want to reproduce they are psychologically messed up and their mind and body are in conflict. I predict that a male form of chemical birth control will either pander to the anti-natal psychological disorder (infantile lust) or destroy the sex drive (ex. Depo Provera is used for chemical castration) either way, it will exacerbate the conflict between mind and body and further destroy relationships between the sexes.
“Would women trust a man who says he’s taking the pill??”
I must say I’ve great trust in my husband and have for the 21 years I’ve been married to him. But I’m the one who has to have the child; not him. I’d have to think hard and long about it just as I did when I made a marriage commitment.
If fewer and fewer American's have any posterity to secure, it's no wonder that we have become so reckless and spendthrift with our blessings. Look at the irrational stock market. It's eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!
I’m 50 and can pass for late thirties for forty. I credit staying out of the sun and no cigarettes.
One more thing: use a good cosmetic line, I use Clinique and make sure I never go to bed with make up on. In the last 30 years I’ve only missed washing my face before bed just once.
Too bad. They are effective; just not as birth control pills.
Well, the problem with assigning fault to something or someone for the decline of moral values in our society is an excuse to exonerate individuals from their own responsibilities. With freedom comes responsibilities, and blaming the pill, condoms, or any other birth control method for our actions isn’t the right way to deal with our weakness.
Psalm 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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