Evie Magazine is leading the charge to get women off hormonal birth control pills.
I think this is great.
While I appreciate some Christians’ disdain for all forms of birth control, nevertheless, some people aren’t ready for that yet. Among the alternatives, around here we promote the use of condoms.
Japan did not have hormonal birth control until 1999. It was paired with the approval of Viagra for men. Condoms were the most common form of contraception. I think that, among other things, the “feminine” character of Japanese women in the past, and perhaps their tendency toward girl-bossiness today, was related to this.
This worked quite well. Out-of-wedlock births were very low, around 3%. This was paired with a permissive abortion regime, although abortions per capita were about half of the US. “Morning after” pills were approved in 2011.
Besides keeping hormones intact, condoms have a number of other advantages. We avoid IUDs and other disturbing alternatives. Women remain literally fertile. A condom is essentially a means of “men’s restraint” not “women’s infertility.” Also, it prevents the spread of diseases. I think that condoms also reduce the degree to which women are exposed to men’s DNA, with interesting implications.
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