Posted on 05/26/2019 3:24:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
You're right of course, but the difference is that, right or wrong, women have the option to abort.
It's on men to decide if the woman they're about to ram it into is a woman they're willing to take on the responsibility of having a child with.
“Well I have to say, it does seem as though the price—decades of responsibility and a life time of emotional vulnerability—is an incredibly high price to pay for such a short and transient pleasure.”
Speaking as a man and it’s obvious I can’t speak for women it was never a matter of being willing to take such great risk for a “short and transient pleasure”. That would be like taking great risk for a fancy desert or something. I’m not bothered by such things now that I am four days away from 75 but as a young man the incredible frustration of NOT having sex was something that not everyone can understand. It was like being ravenously hungry or maybe even worse, I certainly have never been that hungry but I have been a little bit hungry and I wanted relief from that gnawing feeling of hunger far more than I wanted the pleasure of eating.
You keep it in your pocket? Damn, that’s a trick I never learned.
LOL!
When I was a teenager (1954 - 1960), the two most embarrassing “events” that could screw up a young man’s life or his family’s life was to 1) get his girl FRiend pregnant and/or 2) “develop” a social disease.
The ONLY way to prevent both was to KYPIYP!
It was VERY difficult to KYPIMP, but, I did until I was old enough and mature enough to deal with both possible outcomes!
KYPIYP is not an option nowadays, apparently!
Definitely not something I can understand. Even as a young woman, it wasn't a driving urge. Just one of the many reasons men and women can never truly understand each other, IMHO.
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