Maria’s Reviews > Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion > Status Update

Women have “been taught the pleasure and convenience of men are paramount. We’ve been taught to diminish our own pain. […] [W]e’ve put the burden of pregnancy prevention on women. We’ve put the burden on the person who is fertile for 24 hours a month, instead of the person who is fertile 24 hours a day, every day of their life.”

“Successful condom users report that once they solved the size, materials, and lubrication questions, they could barely tell a difference between sex with a condom and sex without.”

“Birth control options for men are very effective plus vastly easier, safer, more convenient, more accessible, and more affordable than birth control options for women. Given this, the expectation ought to be that a man uses a condom every time he has sex. And if a man is deeply condom-averse, it should be an absolute given that he would get a vasectomy.”

Condoms “don’t cause depression, mood swings, blood clots, liver failure, weight gain, acne, strokes, or anything else on the list of side effects for hormonal birth control.”

“Ovulation is involuntary. Ejaculation is voluntary.”

“We have an entire pregnancy prevention industry built around the brief, elusive period of monthly fertility, and nothing, absolutely nothing even close to equivalent, that addresses the always persistent male fertility. We are laser-focused on the wrong thing.”

“We don’t track men’s fertility at all. There are no apps for that. No over-the-counter tests at the pharmacy. Because there’s no need; we already know when men are fertile. Men are fertile all day, every day.”

Since men are 50x more fertile than women, it’s clear that they “don’t play a minor or supporting role in pregnancy. Men’s lifelong continual fertility is the central driving force behind all unwanted pregnancies.”

The bright orange color in the gutter is gorgeous.