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The American Virgin: "A penny in your vagina prevents pregnancy" and other terrible advice adults gave you about sex

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Feminists For Choice » Gandhi’s birth control of choice

feministsforchoice blogger Janice compares Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi's approached to birth control:

I recently read an article about the correspondence and meeting between two of the most independent thinkers of the 20th Century, Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi. The two activists met in 1936 when Sanger traveled to India to speak with Gandhi about birth control. By that time Sanger was advocating internationally for artificial contraceptives and sought to make Gandhi an ally.
Despite the fact that the movement was gaining popularity in a society with a serious poverty crisis, Gandhi was an outspoken critic of artificial birth control. His general attitude was that
“Persons who use contraceptives will never learn the value of self-restraint. They will not need it. Self-indulgence with contraceptives may prevent the coming of children but will sap the vitality of both men and women, perhaps more of men than of women. It is unmanly to refuse battle with the devil.”
Sanger, on the other hand, once told her granddaughter that “for intercourse, I’d say three times a day was about right.” (Go girl!)
Gandhi believed that men needed to overcome desire for women and warned women that if they engaged in intercourse for pleasure that men would lose respect for them and begin to view them as mere sex objects.
Instead, women in Gandhi’s world had a special role. A lesser-discussed aspect of Gandhi’s radical lifestyle was that up until his death he regularly slept, fully nude, with young women. The purpose was to demonstrate brahmacharya, or complete control over body and organs, by this display of sexual restraint.
While Gandhi warned women against giving away their chastity to avoid being treated as sex objects, isn’t that precisely the way that Gandhi treated them by using them as submissive roles of his presentation of self-restraint?
This ritual demeaned women by portraying them as something impure, something for men to “overcome.” He reduced women by manipulating them to deny their own natural sexual urges, and insisting that the only expression of their sexuality be in lying naked with him in bed, a situation where he was in full control and which was void of healthy sexual activity.
While many today praise Gandhi’s progressive views on women’s rights, was he really as concerned about the dignity of Indian women as he claimed?
Sanger did not succeed in convincing Gandhi to support the birth control movement. Instead he maintained his position that his followers “transcend carnal lust.” While Sanger did not make what could have been a powerful ally, I think the important fact is that the conversation took place.
Given all that has happened in India since Gandhi’s death in 1948, I wonder where he would stand on the issue of birth control today. Certainly few people would agree with his approach in a country where nearly half live below the poverty line.
In 1959 Sanger stood by the side of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru when he declared that $10 million would go to family planning efforts. I wonder what Gandhi would have thought about the use of state resources to fund population control.
The meeting between Margaret Sanger and Gandhi demonstrates Sanger’s audacity and serves as a good lesson for activists to seek allies even in unlikely places. It is also great feminist food for thought.feministsforchoice blogger Janice compares Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi's... more

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YAZTalk is the home for information gathering on Yaz, Yasmin

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Why Women Can't Rely On Male Birth Control

National Geographic recently ran a piece designed to once again whip us up into a frenzy over the possibility that a male contraceptive might finally be developed and released unto the world. According to the piece, a new human sex hormone—Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH)—has been found, which could possibly suppress another hormone whose job it is to get the body ready for sex and reproduction.

Color us unconvinced. Similar pieces seem to run every few years, yet our prayers are never answered. And, now that we think about it, this initiative's continued failure might actually be a good thing. Science Looking Into A Male Birth Control Pill
Exhibit A: Gawker writer Ravi Somaiya speculated that the proliferation of male contraceptive use might actually increase instances of sexually transmitted infections and diseases.

"The same quantity of men would lie about being on the pill as do about about pulling out," he wrote. "Men would forget to take the pill in the same numbers that they forget to buy condoms."

So basically: Don't trust a man to do a woman's job. He will lie with the intent of getting into your pants, forget about BC at the same rate at which he forgets about your anniversary, and leave you with an itchy poochacha and, perhaps, an illegitimate child. 7 Ways Male Birth Control Will Change Everything
Then again, women aren't exactly perfect angels when it comes to protecting their bodies. Though we generally have more to lose (pregnancy is no walk in the park, and 84 percent of single parents are mothers), many of us regularly do or think the following:

1. Forget to refill our birth control prescriptions.
2. Remember to refill our birth control prescriptions, but then forget to take the pill three nights in a row.
3. Get home really late and are tired and collapse into bed without even turning on the lights and/or putting on our fuzzy pajama pants. Therefore, we forget to take our pill and/or we remembered but couldn't muster the energy to take it (which technically counts more as "willful disobedience" than "forgetting").
4. Decide to throw caution to the wind, and do the two-step without protection. After all, we hate condoms almost as much as men do. Study Says Women Don't Like Condoms
5. Daydream about vasectomies. Recession Causes Upswing In Vasectomies
Gee. Maybe none of us are to be trusted!

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Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

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Birth control could save as much carbon dioxide as 2 million giant wind turbines by 2050

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Sexologist Discusses History of Birth Control

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Groundbreaking Birth Control Bill Has Powerful Enemies in Philippines

MANILA — Gina Judilla already had three children the first time she tried to terminate a pregnancy. “I jumped down the stairs, hoping that would cause a miscarriage,” she said. The fetus survived and is now an 8-year-old boy.

Three years later, pregnant again, she drank an herbal concoction that was supposed to induce abortion. That, too, failed.

Three years ago, in another unsuccessful attempt to end a pregnancy, she took Cytotec, a drug to treat gastric ulcers that is widely known in the Philippines as an “abortion pill.”

What drove Ms. Judilla, a 37-year-old manicurist, to such extreme measures is a story familiar to many Filipino women. She and her unemployed husband are very poor, barely able to buy vitamins for their youngest child or to send more than two of their older children to school.

“When I had my third child, I swore to myself that I will never get pregnant again because I know we could not afford to have another one,” Ms. Judilla said in a recent interview inside her home in Pasig City, on the eastern outskirts of Manila.

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines, though birth control and related health services have long been available to those who can afford to pay for them through the private medical system. But 70 percent of the population is too poor and depends on heavily subsidized care through the public health system. In 1991, prime responsibility for delivering public health services shifted from the central government to the local authorities, who have broad discretion over which services are dispensed. Many communities responded by making birth control unavailable.

More recently, however, family planning advocates have been making headway in their campaign to change this. Legislation before the Philippine Congress, called the Reproductive Health and Population Development Act, would require governments down to the local level to provide free or low-cost reproductive health services — from condoms and birth control pills to tubal ligation and vasectomy. It would also mandate sex education in all schools, public and private, from fifth grade through high school.

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Birth control pill levels up with condom

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Condoms Rival The Pill's Popularity Among Women

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The Catholic Church's Next Scandal

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New Oklahoma law will publicy post details of women’s abortions online.

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The Pill makes women pick ‘dad’ over the ‘cad’

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Yaz Lawsuits

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Sex. Really - Hysterical Viagra Commercial gone terribly wrong!!

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China May Be Rethinking One-Child Policy to Avoid Expected Population Decline

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Why Sex With Robots is Always Wrong: The Impending Demise of the Human Species

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Pro-Life group wants to make abortion and birth-control illegal in Florida

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The American Virgin: "A penny in your vagina prevents pregnancy" and other terrible advice adults gave you about sex

Feminists For Choice » Gandhi’s birth control of choice

YAZTalk is the home for information gathering on Yaz, Yasmin

YAZTalk is the home for information gathering on Yaz, Yasmin

Why Women Can't Rely On Male Birth Control

Condom Design Contest? Only in New York

Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Birth control could save as much carbon dioxide as 2 million giant wind turbines by 2050

Sexologist Discusses History of Birth Control

Groundbreaking Birth Control Bill Has Powerful Enemies in Philippines

Birth control pill levels up with condom

Condoms Rival The Pill's Popularity Among Women

The Catholic Church's Next Scandal

New Oklahoma law will publicy post details of women’s abortions online.

The Pill makes women pick ‘dad’ over the ‘cad’

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Sex. Really - Hysterical Viagra Commercial gone terribly wrong!!

China May Be Rethinking One-Child Policy to Avoid Expected Population Decline

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