It's actually really crazy that women are only fertile for about 6 days every month and for only half our lives. Men are fertile every single day of the year and almost the entirety of their lives, yet the burden of child prevention is placed on us.
We have the pill, IUDs, IUS, diaphragm, female contraceptives, the sponge, the injection, the patch, the ring, the cervical cap, the implant. Men are only required to use condoms or get vasectomies.
Bearing in mind the dangerous and long lasting side effects of female contraceptives...see here---> theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In contrast, vasectomies are quick and reversible and the danger in comparison to female contraceptives is minimal. Why is the medical community focused on 101 ways for women to prevent pregnancy but ignoring the far greater danger of male fertility?
How do you ignore the demographic that can impregnate 100% of the time and focus all your attention on the ones whose fertility is at a much lower percentage and steadily declines. Smells like misogyny.
Our issue is not that we don’t want birth control for women but that there should be more options for men so both parties can, as best they can, equally share the responsibility of pregnancy prevention. Because as it is, it is strictly one-sided.
