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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Should a woman trust a man to say "yeah I took it"? Probably not advisable to go without a condom either unless you want to risk diseases...
See tagline.
Men: Engage in sexual intercourse only with your wife.
Women: Engage in sexual intercourse only with your husband.
Men have no risk of pregnancy that I know of.
They already have it, it's call a vasectomy and a freezer of home made "Popsicles" for when you want kids
Seems I’ve read about that somewhere.
Probably ... I know it's a totally goofy idea that only some sort of repressed weirdo would think of, but I didn't invent it.
Their children will then become libtards and run for national office....and be elected!
Raquel Welch has been a conservative voice in Hollywood.
If you glance through photo galleries of her, you will also discover that she was conservative as a “sex symbol” too - as Tax-Chick noted, her beauty shone through any clothes she wears - then and still now. Though she appeared in Playboy, I am almost certain she did not appear nude. Her daughter, Tahnee, whose beauty is quite reflective of Raquel’s, similarly has not appeared nude to the best of my knowledge - so Raquel seems to have taught well.
To the best of my recollection she has been remarkably consistent in her positions over the years, and this article is something that I would expect to see from her.
Try to encourage Hollywood conservatives!
I dont believe that any woman in her right mind would believe/trust a man who claimed to be on the pill.
I remember seeing Tahnee Welch in “Cocoon,” that cute movie about aliens making old folks young. Gorgeous girl.
And we recently saw Raquel in an excellent, comic part in “Tortilla Soup,” with Hector Elizondo.
In addition, the way she has aged gracefully and gently preached about how to do so has been remarkable.
In the CNN article she does something else that people need more of: "...I'm ashamed to admit that I myself have been married four times, ...". How many times have we seen this frank self assessment?
I had a crush on Raquel when I was in my teens watching 1,000,000 yr BC, and I still have a crush on her, but that is a result of her beauty being much more than skin deep.
problem is that the sex in our culture is a sign of decomposition, ie, its the aftermath of the death of culture, not a symptom of sickness...
my .02, and fwiw, yes i did look at all the pics so far, and have chalked up a need for more repentence to mrs g...
In the CNN article It's sex o'clock in America she does something else that people need more of: "...I'm ashamed to admit that I myself have been married four times, ...". How many times have we seen this frank self assessment?
I assume that is a joke.
I read somewhere along the line that they tried this with men early on and one man died in the trials. One man. So they then turned their focus to contracepting the female. I don’t recall how many women died before they got it ‘right’.
Pope Paul VI’s much maligned and generally despised encyclical, Humanae Vitae was prophetic in its foretelling of precisely what has come to pass since the sexual revolution started. It started some 38 years prior however, since before 1930 no Christian denomination embraced artificial contraception.
Obviously vasectomy was not the answer, it never appealed to me.
Birth control for men is supposed to be very complex.
You have to live in WA state. We are the single parent capital of the country.
My partner got mixed up with a woman that actually finds men, dates them, has sex with them in order to get pregnant, and then has the kid.
The father finds out if a) he’s got money and can pay child support, or b) never finds out if he doesn’t.
This lady’s got three, just got pregnant, and is now about to ‘marry’ some loser to do it all over again.
One of the best paralegals there is. She’s brilliant, actually, and very, very sick. A real predator.
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