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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My bad. That’s what beautiful women do to me ;)
I think it’s the same argument as the one about whether guns kill people, or people kill people. Things don’t cause things to happen. It’s how people put those things to use that cause the bad or good results.
The PILL, FEMINISM, AND PLAYBOY all came around the same time...they ALL RUINED MARRIAGE and MORALS!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Is that what they call a tautology?
Population is one of the elements of national power.
The others are geography, natural resources and wealth.
Don’t forget the “Hannie Calder” pics... /g
Wow...at 69 she looks better than Pelosi ever looked in her life...or Kagan...or Michelle O...or Hillary...or....
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She’s got a point!
Actually, in some of those photos... she has TWO points.
My goodness, she was beautiful.
Men want birth control, not sterilization!
You need to update your profile - it says only 9.
You forgot Welfare.
Maury Povich and his crasser imitators make a living selling the lie that the very worst dysfunctional freaks are normal.
Paul VI was not my favourite Pope, but Humanae Vitae was spot on.
Raquel is right about that. I think that it also ruined women who have become as coarse as men.
I’m all ears...
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