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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Surgery on the male’s reproductive organs has been around for decades, that is why this thread about a male pill is here.
Most of us want a pill.
This 50 year old wanted something a bit more certain.
My dad continued having kids until he was about 65, and personally, surgery never appealed to me, and I doubt that it appeals much to the 18 to 25 single men set.
However I think it's going to be extremely difficult to find a compound which guarantees that not a single viable sperm will be produced while not doing any appreciable amount of temporary or permanent damage to the user.
To this laymen that seems several orders of magnitude more difficult than preventing the implantation of a single fertilized egg in the uterus.
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It is clearly difficult to develop a male pill, but when they do, then much of this thread applies, it will bring an earth shaking change to the sex scene in America.
Then you should spend every waking moment making love to your wife from the day you marry till the day you die. After all if you don't, you're depriving souls the chance to exist.
Get back to me after you run that one past the Mrs.
I've tried and tried, how do you think we got 10?
I contemplate reproduction in same spirit as Shakespeare did in his sonnets:
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
I say that because you keep ignoring the switch on, switch off use of a male pill.
I wouldn't trust a male pill in terms of unanticipated consequences and I believe that most men in the current spirit of this self absorbed world would never turn it off at all.
Pity the world, have more children!
And Go Rand Paul! Can't wait to vote on the 18th. I wish my kids were old enough.
AMEN! Right now my “hubby” pays half of his net pay in child support (really matriarchy support) to his now remarried ex. In return, she has alienated all three of his children under 14 and sends post cards “from the kids” from their florida vacation in which she yanked all three, ritalin given, grade school failing children out of school for 5 days.
Birth control for men, right on! Children can no longer be used as pawns for ransom.
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