TMI over at neo-necocon.

WARNING: Sexual fluids discussed.

It's a little disturbing to see how others treat ABC so nonchalantly, even in a joking manner.

What a strange topic.

I’ll put it this way. I’m a Catholic … but I’m not a good Catholic …LOL

As if that's something to treat as a "Ah, so what?"

Wow! I may be a prude, though I/we for 47 years remain sexually active (yes I can still get it up without viagra). After the 3rd child, 32 years ago, I had a vasectomy. Shooting blanks does not diminish the pleasure of shooting blanks.

So you admit that it's all about the pleasure. Cut away the natural consequence (no pun) and you're free to roam with the buffaloes.

But onto what neo-neocon writes about the NY Times article, that women are too overwhelmed with the choices of artificial birth control (I thought ABC was a right being taken away?) that they simply opt for the "pull out" method. Good for the female if she has her orgasms but bad for the guy because he has to concentrate on actually pulling out when climaxes. Of course, the natural thing is to just have sex without much thought of whether or not pregnancy is wanted, and the male ejaculating into his sex partner. Natural as can be.

"Pulling out", as I was told in Robert Crown Health Center, is ineffective for the most part because of the pre-cum still on the vagina lips. If both parties are fertile and if nature has its way, the chances of the woman becoming pregnant is still high. Just because the man pulls out before he has his orgasm doesn't mean semen hasn't escaped.

What does this tell us? The purpose of sex is reproduction. The orgasm is the high, or the candy, that allures both parties to have sex. That's why sex can be addicting. That's why it's such a strong act that effects on emotionally, physically and even spiritually. Without the orgasm and the pleasure that comes during sex, sex would be a chore. Modernity has very much chopped sex into pieces, deconstructing it in a way that it makes the action trivial when pregnancy gets in the way, never really seeing sex as an entire act with consequences and meaning. As usual, the mentality of "as long as you attach meaning to sex it shouldn't really matter" is, as we've seen, all bullshit..

Artificial birth control (ABC) is unnatural, but since it's a major scientific breakthrough it's lauded. Poster "Sgt. Mom" over at neo-neocon's site said,

My dad, the research biologist, was not enthusiastic about the Pill, when it first came out and in regard to the use of it by my younger sister and I. I do recall that the question did come up. Our family was rather … freewheeling about topics of general interest. Reproductive medicine was not his specialty, but he was adamant that blindly messing about with human hormone levels was just not a good idea. Dad had also been adamant that we not drink commonly available soft drinks when we were kids because he worried about the effects of cyclamate.

Another poster, "CV " comments on the backwardness of the "all natural" movement.

It’s baffling to me that in an era in which so many people, particularly women, are obsessively focused on natural food choices, avoidance of chemicals in makeup and household products, etc. are perfectly willing to alter their body by taking birth control hormones.

It's a rarity, like a seeing a unicorn, to meet a woman who hasn't used some form of birth control in order to not get pregnant (I know there are some who take The Pill for health reasons not concerning unwanted pregnancies), as well as meeting a person who isn't married abstaining from sex due to self-dignity, or because one views sex as a sanctity. But maybe that's me being deluded and holding a bizarre view of sex, and most likely I'd be accused of not viewing women as equals.