The Pill at 50: Don't Stop Believin' (about our culture contradictions not just the pill)

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-moore/the-pill-at-50-dont-stop_b_568710.html

t's about the contradiction of bombarding our kids with unhealthy and over-sexualized images every day, and yet being reluctant to teach young people the importance of having respectful, honest relationships. Things like talking about HIV status, getting tested, using birth control if they need to and saying no if they want to. Helping them have healthy relationships and get out of unsafe ones.

It's about not being able to walk into a pharmacy and get emergency contraception (EC) off the shelf. It's about the Missouri house voting this month to allow pharmacies to refuse to stock EC, and refuse to even tell a woman where she can get it.

And it's about the fact that nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, one of the highest rates in the industrialized world. Recent articles in the mainstream press have noted the pill's unfulfilled promise of ending unintended pregnancy. But that has nothing to do with the pill and everything to do with our culture's ability to understand, obtain, negotiate, and use it or any other form of contraception. It's about the gap the Guttmacher Institute and the National Campaign have noted between intention and behavior--feeling it is important to avoid pregnancy but "taking a pass" on contraception.

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But decades after the "sexual revolution" that supposedly came with the pill, we still haven't accepted sex as a normal, important part of a healthy adult relationship.

More at the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-moore/the-pill-at-50-dont-stop_b_568710.html

[seabeyond]

1. "haven't accepted sex as a normal"... just cant find that middle of the road in between

the two extremes.