It’s as much about pleasure as health


In Big Think, Pamela Haag seeks greater honesty about contraception. With a few exceptions, it’s not about “women’s health,” she says. What contraception provides is the ability to enjoy sexual pleasure without pregnancy, which is nothing to apologize for, she says.

Categories: Contraception, women
John de Rosier

3 Responses

  1. Ann says:

    Oh sure, excrusiating pain and blackouts aren’t about health.

    I get what she’s saying but the health reasons for the pill are numerous and wide spread.

  2. Chad9976 says:

    How did women survive for thousand of years before the invention of the birth control pill? I never understand these arguments for elective medicine based on the notion that without it all hell will break loose.

  3. Ann says:

    Chad, not very well. Try having a baby every year or dying in childbirth, or being divorce because of your inability to have one. Try walking around with wadded up rags between your legs. I could go on and on…it’s understandable that men don’t realize this but let me tell you, I’d never want to be a woman at any point in history. Right now is the best it’s ever been.