[Campion]

There was a time when people said the same thing about smoking.

But just banning something isn't the answer. You have to change hearts and minds to destroy the demand.

[DarkSavant]

The sad part is it will never be completely irradicated. Abortion has always been around, and so has birth control in some form or another.

The question becomes when it is prudent to make something illegal. Personally, it's probably when someone else is directly impacted, like in abortion. Though I will admit that is still fuzzy(dowe want heroin legal too?). Personally, I believe the birth control drugs that are aborificents should be banned, but it's prudent to keep condoms legal, just for minimal damage for people who won't listen anyways. At least there won't be baby killing then.

[Antoninus]

But just banning something isn't the answer. You have to change hearts and minds to destroy the demand.

That's it. Eventually, demand for self-sterilization products will dry up because the majority of people alive will have been raised in families who rejected them. This may seem a long way off, given that the "Me" generation is currently in power, but I'll bet that society will have a much different view of this subject 30-40 years from now.

[Richard Kimball]

You have to change hearts and minds to destroy the demand.

Yeah, when I was in HS, the movie, The Last Picture Show came out. It was one of the earlier movies that made amorality moral. The lead character's girl friend was portrayed as a bitch because she wouldn't have sex with him. The only happy relationship in the movie was a high school boy having an extramarital affair with the coach's wife.

Prior to that, heroes had morphed from the Jimmy Stewart mold to Sean Connery. Stewart almost always played a devoted family man. Connery bedded several women in every one of his movies, even though he never had an emotional attachment to any of them. The James Bond character imprinted on me very strongly, and I suspect a lot of other guys were similarly influenced.

Playboy magazine was also influential. The girls were young, beautiful, and it portrayed a world in which sex was free, easy, and there were no STDs or unwanted pregnancies.

As to the appeal of Playboy, the best description I ever read was that it was a place where a guy who had a job he didn't like and was slightly intimidated by women could, for two dollars, enter a world where cuff links mattered.