Posted on 09/29/2010 8:33:41 AM PDT by marshmallow
FAR from bringing equality, contraception has redistributed power away from women, says George Pell.
THIS year is the 50th anniversary of the contraceptive pill, a development that has changed Western life enormously, in some ways most people do not understand.
While majority opinion regards the pill as a significant social benefit for giving women greater control of their fertility, the consensus is not overwhelming, especially among women.
A May CBS News poll of 591 adult Americans found that 59 per cent of men and 54 per cent of women believed the pill had made women's lives better.
In an article in the ecumenical journal First Things that month, North American economist Timothy Reichert approached the topic with "straight-forward microeconomic reasoning", concluding that contraception had triggered a redistribution of wealth and power from women and children to men.
Applying the insights of the market, he points out that relative scarcity or abundance affects behaviour in important ways and that significant technological changes, such as the pill, have broad social effects. His basic thesis is that the pill has divided what was once a single mating market into two markets.
This first is a market for sexual relationships, which most young men and women frequent early in their adult life. The second is a market for marital or partnership relationships, where most participate later on.
Because the pill means that participation in the sex market need not result in pregnancy, the costs of having premarital and extra-marital sex have been lowered.
The old single mating market was populated by roughly the same number of men and women, but this is no longer the case in the two new markets.
Because most women want to have children, they enter the marriage market earlier than men, often by their early 30s. Men are under no.........
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I was just concurring with her conservative view.
In certain groups, you have somewhat similar conditions today, where men take no responsibility whether or not they father children. And do the women in those conditions gain power? No...in fact, just the opposite. Even with easy access to abortion,
It's rather unrealistic to think that under such conditions, women would form a cartel rather than compete.
Post of the day.
That is as ridiculous as your vasectomy try; neither of them have anything in common with what a simple, effective birth control pill for men would be.
You don't seem able to even grasp the idea of a "simple, effective" birth control pill for men, that is why you don't bother with my idea of what the results would be if we got one, you seem to be having your own conversation with yourself.
It sure didn't look that way to me, it looked like you were doing just what I said you were.
Teaching your children that sex is a power play is just wrong on so many levels. Besides, there are just as many predatory women looking to get laid as there are men.
Which planet is it that you live on again?
If codetoad (guy?) is a handsome masculine tadpole he is getting hit on allot.
If he was a cad of a charactor who is handsome/hot/manly he would be getting busy allot.
I am a wise old woman.
Once was a young dumb wild woman centuries ago. : )
I know what woman of the worldly world are capable of.
There are not as many women looking to get laid as there are men.
Visit the pick up world some time, and notice the imbalance.
Visit the pick up world sometime.....
No thanks. Haven’t been around a meat market in decades seems like a century ago.
Funny to see all the guys who were hittin’ everything back then.
Now they are just old men or dead. Divorced and unattractive.
Weird, do you think that people think that you know what you are talking about, and were striving to make a factual statement? You only sound bitter and rejected.
Whatever.
You misperceived my post.
And I ain’t gonna ‘splain it.
So there. (raspberry)
“I am a wise old woman.”
Not if you think a vagina is a commercial piece of property.
“Which planet is it that you live on again?”
Get out more. Men aren’t having sex with just a select few women. The dirtly little secret women don’t want out is that they want sex as much as any man, but their brainwashing tells them that their genitals are commerical property not to just be “given” out. This male bashing that all men want is sex and womend don’t is pure crap.
>>Teaching your children that sex is a power play is just wrong on so many levels. Besides, there are just as many predatory women looking to get laid as there are men.<<
Please read farther down the thread.
The power is in the control of their OWN lives. Not someone else’s. Once they have sex outside of marriage, it opens them up to STDs, Pregnancy and all the problems of both. The guy can be long gone and they still lose control of their lives because they have to deal with the consequences.
Thank you!
First that isn't true, remember high school when 1 girl could remove the virginity of a large portion of the males, the same as a couple of hookers could do for other male groups and cliques.
The rest of life is like that, the bars have a few easy girls and the hookers that service huge numbers of men.
This Saturday night, visit the clubs close to closing time, and try to see who is hunting, and the rarity of what is being hunted, and write down the ratios and note the difference in the males that you see going home alone despite spending their money and efforts on avoiding that result, versus the females going home alone by choice.
Watch as half a dozen males crowd around a single female, hoping to be the one.
If you really have the energy, be sure to notice all the hookers out at that time of the night, why are they there? Because they are available to make up that gender gap in the sex hunt. Do you see any male hookers standing out there to service the females that couldn't score? Of course not.
>>The dirty little secret women dont want out is that they want sex as much as any man, but their brainwashing tells them that their genitals are commercial property not to just be given out.<<
Um, the “dirty little secret” is that women like cuddles and kisses and are willing to have sex to get them.
That is how we are hard wired. Women are looking to nest, men are looking to plant their seeds. Women have been told far too long that they “want sex as much as men do”, when actually they want the closeness that comes with sex. Men and women are really working toward different goals. The Cougars are the women that believe the feminazi hype of “you want it as much as they do”. No, we don’t. Because given the choice of a sexless but lovefilled marriage or a bunch of one night stands, honestly, we’ll take the marriage.
It’s the reason why lesbian relationships are all about emotion and male homosexual relationships are all about sex.
BTTT.
Having sex while the woman is on the pill is like eating with one’s stomach stapled so no nutrition can be absorbed.
Something’s very, very wrong with both situations. (And of course, not just “the pill” but the pill is extreme, and symbolizes all contraception, due to its ease. And of course the fact that most BC pills (AFAIK) are abortifacients into the bargain.
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