Letters to the Editor
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Don't forget about
... neurosis. There was a recent blurb in the news about men with vasectomies being more likely to become neurotic.
Men's health though has never been a big social concern. Everyone on the planet is working to end breast cancer, but very little attention is paid to prostate cancer, a disease which takes many fathers, brothers and sons every year. It's like the third most deadly form of cancer if memory serves.
It's no surprise that the broads posting replies here could give a shit less about recommending dangerous medical procedures. Society is geared to making women happy: the Pill, shopping malls, immunity from intellectual criticism, legal supports for the beloved single mother, mindless consumerism, etc.
The only people threatened are the women who just can't understand why some men want reliable, safe male b/c. Maybe because they know that when there's no more babby daddy drama, society will no longer function as a pure matriarchy.
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To "Funny" Anoyomous
What the hell do you get off assuming that all lesbians are man-hating bull-dykes? I happen to be a lesbian and have much respect for men and what happens to their bodies. I used to sleep with them! Nobody deserved to be mistreated or mislead.
When I was younger and still figuring myself out, I got that same BS line about how much better it feels with out a condom. Being young and stupid, I gave in. Very luckily, I didn't end up pregant or with any STD's, but I hung over my head what a stupid decision that was for years and the risk I put myself (and future partners) into.
It's guys like you that give men everywhere a bad name.
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No one should be making assumptions/declarations/bullshit statements about lesbians == man hating bulldykes, but condoms do suck for the man
No one should make statements that lesbians are man hating bulldykes.
But condoms do suck. They are the lesser of evils.
Condoms do in fact lessen sensitivity greatly, and it is silly to pretend otherwise. Also, they can be hard to fit right, can make too much and too little lubrication a problem, and can ruin the mood as we fumble around putting them on.
You shouldn't pretend that it is otherwise.
I for one used to undergo exquisite pain putting on condoms until my girlfriends purchased me a case of Trojan Magnum XXL, and even then it can be problematical.
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Not making assumptions
Give me a break. Flaunting the size of your penis to make a point is childish. What do you want, a pat on the back and an apology? Get over yourself.
What you and your partner do in bed is really none of my business. You don't want to use a condom, fine.
Just please don't whine and try to convince the rest of us that condoms shouldn't be used because they lessen male (your) sensitivity during sex. The consequences of unprotected sex are much, much worse then less feeling in your dick.
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That's called making a joke, but I forgot the number one rule about feminists...
Just please don't whine and try to convince the rest of us that condoms shouldn't be used because they lessen male (your) sensitivity during sex. The consequences of unprotected sex are much, much worse then less feeling in your dick.
Yes, like I said, they are the lesser of evils.
BUT, if we told feminists that to prevent HPV they needed to put a latex/vinyl vaginal shield across their clitoris and throughout their vagina, and yes it would lessen your ability to orgasm, than please do not tell me that feminists and Broadsheet would say that this was a bullshit, and that it was some form of misogyny used to eliminate the female orgasm.
Mime or whatever the hell you are, until you have a cock in a sheath and know what it is like to screw in one, you have no business telling other people that it is not a big deal.
You just don't know, just like I don't know what PMS is, I just know that your acting like a bitch and complaining of some minor cramps seems like a big attention whoring tactic. Oh, pity me, I have cramps and feel bloated!
It's a two way street and until you can figure that out, we'll get nowhere. So please pull your head out of your ass and try and regain that sense of humor you had when you were eight.
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To all the women recomending vasectomies
I sugesst you stop using that nasty pill with all its side effects and get a tubal ligation - much more effective and safer.
No? not so keen on that? Well stop whinging about the pill already ok?
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I never said I was a feminist
And name calling is completely uncalled for.
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What a lot of haters here today
I wasn't offended by the article, but I am a single heterosexual woman so according to all the men here that makes me unqualified to judge. What I think is highly offensive is the presumption that men shouldn't have to wear a condom because they are uncomfortable or desensetizing but it's ok for women to have to take a pill daily (whether or not sex is planned for the day) that affects our hormones and may even cause a higher incidence of some cancers (or not depending on who you talk to). The pill also has the ability to lower some women's libidos, cause bloating, breast tenderness (sounds like nothing unless you've experienced it) and does in fact make some women depressed. It can also have all the reverse effects for other women. I don't actually believe in men's birth control because I'm the one who carries the baby if it fails. And contrary to at least one of the Anonymous posters I don't think most women are man eating whores who only have sex to get pregnant and suck the life's blood from your oh-so-desirable bank accounts. It's just an article like a million others. If you don't like what she has to say, keep your sperm in the system and go on about your business. As you were
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This is Men's Fault!
This is men’s fault because men working in reproductive sciences made these technologies and other men choose to donate sperm. I wasn’t around when artificial insemination was developed, but I can say that when it was, it more than likely caused great controversy. As soon as “The Scum Manifesto” came out, men should have been retracting their gametes from sperm banks and keeping their procreative cells to themselves, only to be shared with their mates. Men choose to rely on the governmental policies regulating the use of donor sperm -- which, at the time was supposed to be used for heterosexual couples who could not conceive naturally -- and now, sometime in the future, boys and men as whole may pay dearly for the choices men made in the past. If there hadn’t been many men donating sperm, sperm banks would have gone out of business and the intricacies of human sperm would have been much harder to study and learn because of the lack of supply. Now, some thirty years later, the government has changed policies regarding sperm donations and now single women and lesbians are cashing in on this to avoid men; and some men are trembling in fear over it. Too bad! Hopefully, if any other technologies or sciences emerge that could possibly endanger the existence of future generations of boys and men, men will think twice before getting involved after looking back at this tragic example.
Should men feel threatened by emerging reproductive sciences? No. But they should be concerned with the grim implications these sciences may pose to future generations of boys and men. What can we do to ensure the continuance of future boys and men? We simply need to demand similar reproductive sciences for men to ensure gender equality in scientific reproduction. The goal is not to try to prevent advancement for women in reproductive sciences or stop them from using reproductive sciences, but to give men equal options and methods for reproducing. This may sound a bit alarmist and far out, but who in their wildest dreams would have thought thirty years ago that scientists would be able to make sperm from bone marrow? Anything is possible, so we must be prepared. Am I threatened? Not at all, but I am concerned and I am going to fight to ensure that boys and men do not become the “extinct gender.”