No Sex
Okay, boys and girls. Let’s talk about sex.
Now that I have your attention.
So, as we know, there are a whole bunch of people out there who would prefer to make abortion illegal in this country. They would like to go back to the old days when far too many women were being transported to the hospital emergency rooms because of a self-induced abortion or one performed by a shady back-alley “abortionist.” How they can place more value on the “life” of that fetus over a woman’s health is beyond me, but I respect thoughtful anti-abortion advocates and support their right to try to make abortion illegal again through the judicial or legislative process. Knock yourself out.
But here’s what I don’t get. There are also millions and millions of anti-abortion advocates who do not support birth control. I guess they are just taking their marching orders from the Pope who, theoretically, never has sex. So, these people are telling others that if they are going to have sex with their partner, then it has to be with the intention of producing a child. Forget the condoms or the birth control pills. That is VERBOTEN.
Now, my question is this – how often are these anti-abortion, anti-birth control wackos having sex?
Anti Abortion Rally
Let’s assume that Mary and John have been married for 10 years and, being good Catholics, they have sex only once a month. Now, of course, they are not going to conceive every time they have sex. That’s particularly true if they do not have intercourse and really go out on a limb by doing something else (which, I suspect, is probably enough to send you straight to hell). But let’s say they have intercourse 7 times in a year. So, what I’m starting to add up in my head is that they will have one child a year. Now, I know this is not scientific but my point is at that rate – if everyone in the country suddenly because devout Catholics – we would beat the crap out of China in the population race, marking probably the only time we would beat China in anything.
I think what this all comes down to is anti-abortion folks who don’t support birth control probably don’t have much sex. And that shouldn’t be too surprising. I mean, have you been to an anti-abortion rally lately? Have you looked at the crusty old men and the misshapen women who have suffered through ten pregnancies? And talk about getting in the mood. Can you imagine standing outside of a clinic for hours, screaming at women, fantasizing over the baby they think they’ve saved, then going home to have some furious post-demonstration sex? I think not. And that’s why it is easy for them to say “no” to artificial birth control because they are doing it naturally by not having sex!
The point that I want to make, of course, is that anti-abortion folks need to get real. If you really want to stop abortion, it ain’t gonna happen by you standing outside a clinic with a bullhorn shouting “Don’t kill me, Mommy! Don’t kill me!” The way you will stop an abortion is by preventing the conception of the child in the first place. That’s why I will always say that abortion clinics, because they counsel women on birth control and offer free samples, do more to stop abortion than anyone.
And the other thing I want to say to my friends in that movement is: have some fun. I am now 61 years old and my spouse is 57. We still have sex several times a week in all kinds of places and all kinds of positions with all kinds of toys. Saturday morning is our favorite time – the time that most demonstrators are out at a clinic.
Life is too short, folks. Join the party before it is too late.
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January 23, 2015 at 3:48 am
Hi:
It is an interesting article, at least showing how you and millions of people think.Life did not start yesterday, and for the most part of man’s life on earth, they did not have the facility of birth control, nor even a medical capacity to perform abortion. So the problem did not exist.
Now that we have these facilities, we added to them, the sexual revolution, where women and men were liberated from constraints, where marriage ends by divorce frequently enough, where even when they produce children, both parents are frequently not around. These made family life so complex that it is presently a vestige of what it was before. So we create problems, cry about them, and decide to have sex at will, contraceptive pills that frequently do not work, and finally accepting the heinous act of killing the most innocent of beings, that previously was considered a blessing, and caused joy and happiness to the whole family, including uncles and aunts, parents and grandparents, cousins and friends. Life is full of constraints, like if you do not work, you do not eat, or if you are not careful about exposing yourself, you get illnesses, or if you do not study you stay ignorant. I hope you have solutions for all these possibilities like the ones you use for this unexpected pregnancy.
All this is done because of the very selfish reason of having to enjoy ourselves sexually without accepting any responsibility for it. Sex was not created for fun, but for the express need of procreation, and bringing more humans on earth.
You see life is complex, and if we do not follow the rules, they will destroy us; like driving while texting, or after drinking, or a number of other examples that will be too long to mention.
What you are doing now is taking decisions from the system that created us in this fashion; for Christians, Jews and Moslems, it is taking it from their Creator.
Education, logic and psychology are important, and should be considered in all these decisions, besides the need to relieve oneself of some hormonal effects.
I can continue on and on with this, but I believe you might have gottent eh point I am trying to make; “No easy excuse for the murder of an innocent baby; be responsible and accept it. Love is needed and not just some little excitement of little worth. Pray the lord of Creation to enlighten you, and stop pointing your fingers to all who disagree with you, because you do not see nor understand their point of view.
With love for all.
Tony
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January 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Nice philosophical structure you have there, Tom, but it’s based on personal considerations and not biological, sociological and scientific facts.
Sex is for continuation of a species, and that continuation is made possible only through the fact that there are certain physical conditions which must be satisfied through copulatory action or a simulacrum. Hence, we have steers in a pen mounting one another, even though reproduction ain’t gonna happen, and we have people having sex hoping it won’t happen.
Humans have been so successful at reproduction that we are now the largest biomass of animal species in the world– in toto, we weigh more than all the whales, all the deer, all the cows– and we likely weigh more than most of the insect species as well. That’s a lot of biomass!
So, we have no need to continue to procreate to dominate. However, we still have the stimuli that beg for satiation.
Now we can be stupid about it and continue to procreate to the point where the species will collapse like the deer herd on a Maine island, or we can be smart and contrive to have sex without threatening the biosphere.
That’s the first point.
The second point is that since its enfoldment of Stoicism into its core beliefs, Christianity has tried to portray as evil, etc., our natural impulse to have sex, in order to secure conformity and obedience among its penny groundlings. Had the Christian clergy been a priestesshood rather than a priesthood, this probably would not have happened, but that’s the way it goes: Men have been deciding whether being pregnant is a good thing. It’s like women determining that it is a necessary thing for men to have testigrams… In either case, what does the dominant gender know about it?
That’s the second point.
The third point is that YOU consider the fetus to be human, but you do nothing for it– once it’s a real child, you can do all sorts of things for it, including spending every penny of the $260,000 it’s going to cost to get it safely through high school, but when it’s in the womb, you can’t protect it from zip– and if the pregnant woman doesn’t want to bear a child, the only thing you might do is offer to arrange a surrogate pregnancy at your expense.
Ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine percent of so-called “pro-lifers” don’t do this, because they don’t care for human life. They only care about how they feel knowing that abortion is available. If they really valued the fetus, they wouldn’t stop at calling it an “unborn child;” they would push to have everybody’s taxes raised so that every pregnant woman would be gauranteed enough money to do right by her brand-new baby.
So, what are you doing for the babies you “rescued”?
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