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Coitus interruptus and the disappearing diaphragm — 26 Comments

  1. I, uh, knew someone who used a cervical cap (and a diaphragm during her period) as recently as 2002. (I don’t know what she uses these days.)

  2. Daniel in Brookline:

    I bet it’s an old one.

    Those things can go on forever.

    But apparently there still were and are some doctors who will prescribe them.

  3. Having a Y chromosome, I was a little disturbed by your reference to a “mouse trap.”

  4. neo,

    There’s another explanation. The continuing gelding of the American male. I’m confident that ‘pulling out’ rates at the bottom, on just about every male’s ‘satisfaction meter’. As feminist emasculation however it has much to offer. After all, do beta males deserve satisfaction? Arguably, is not emasculation of the male, the end product of female domination?

    Before rejecting this admittedly appalling explanation, consider TV’s ongoing, long deluge in commercials, TV and movies in which the male is typically now shown as, at best well meaning but incompetent and at worst, as a murderous, brutal rapist.

    Note: my apology in advance, as this comment is likely to fuel Artflgdr’s ranting misogyny.

  5. Probably helps that should the “pull out” method not work they can vamoose any inconvenience with a morning after pill or abortion. Those are two more common birth control methods you didn’t mention.

    Another concern: STDs. Condoms don’t just prevent pregnancies. Interesting that this is not a greater concern to the Pullout Generation. (I didn’t read the linked article, so maybe I just missed that part?).

  6. Geoffrey Britain:

    I can’t imagine that most women enjoy coitus interruptus very much, either.

    I’ll leave it at that.

  7. I am pretty certain “pulling out” isn’t going to be popular with men or women, and it won’t work. It isn’t like this method is new, and I am about 100% certain that men and women have not really changed how they behave when at the point of orgasm- you aren’t doing a lot of critical thinking.

    However, if this is how young people are thinking these days, may they enjoy their unexpected children, abortions, and venereal diseases.

  8. It’s baffling to me that in an era in which so many people, particularly women, are obsessively focused on natural food choices, avoidance of chemicals in makeup and household products, etc. are perfectly willing to alter their body by taking birth control hormones.

    And now the diaphragm is “out” and withdrawal “in” (so to speak)?

    Talk about bizarro world! What’s next, a reality TV star as the front runner for president?

  9. The CDC estimates than some 80 million people in the US have HPV right now and that almost all sexually active people will eventually get it. Never mind the good ol’ STDs we had when we were kids, which for us Gen X types, includes HIV. Yet now women – when they’re not busy deciding that last night’s hookup was actually a rape – want to return to the birth control method that helped make huge catholic families back in the day while boinking with less discrimination than the average springtime rabbit?

  10. I was surprised that tubal ligation wasn’t mentioned and wondered if many many women were choosing that, once they knew they didn’t want more children. My most enduring romance was with a woman who had had her “tubes tied” before we met. It was continually wonderful to enjoy sex without the hassle or worry with contraception. Today, on Wiki I read that it has the risk of serious surgery and is not foolproof. So, maybe it is not common. We were blissfully ignorant.

  11. What a strange topic.

    I’ll put it this way. I’m a Catholic … but I’m not a good Catholic …LOL

  12. jack:

    Strange topic?

    Well, at least it’s not about Donald Trump.

    Well, at least I don’t think it’s about Donald Trump…

  13. I wonder if many moderns are not very concerned if an egg does get fertilized, and simply run off to their druggist for an RU485 pill the morning after?

    Once the Lovely Mrs. Firefly explained to me how the pill works; tricking a woman’s body into thinking it’s pregnant 12 times a year, I understood why she didn’t want to be on it. It seems like that can’t be good for one’s body, long-term.

  14. My dad, the research biologist, was not enthusiastic about the Pill, when it first came out and in regard to the use of it by my younger sister and I. I do recall that the question did come up. Our family was rather … freewheeling about topics of general interest. Reproductive medicine was not his specialty, but he was adamant that blindly messing about with human hormone levels was just not a good idea. Dad had also been adamant that we not drink commonly available soft drinks when we were kids because he worried about the effects of cyclamate.

    As for birth control methods – yes, I opted for a diaphragm as about the safest, in combination with taking note of the calendar … back in the day when I did need such precautions.

  15. Wow! I may be a prude, though I/we for 47 years remain sexually active (yes I can still get it up without viagra). After the 3rd child, 32 years ago, I had a vasectomy. Shooting blanks does not diminish the pleasure of shooting blanks.

  16. That is, they’re opting that their male partners opt for it, because unless things have changed an awful lot since I was young, it’s more a man thing.

    Ah, neo, it is not so bleak though for the males now as it once was when I was young. A much larger % of women, in some countries and circles a large majority, in today’s world are not only willing, but enthusiastic, to engage in BJ Clinton’s not-sex. Many men no longer have to beg or wait for Christmas or their birthdays anymore, and I read somewhere that it has even replaced the teenage first-date kiss, and it goes both ways too.

    You can of course be forgiven for not knowing, unless that old criticism of Jewish girls really was just a myth all along.

    😉

  17. @ CV: Good observation about the “all natural” movement yet ABC is probably the most unnatural thing, but it’s highly lauded and encouraged. Bizarre indeed, and sad.

  18. It is disappearing. I’m not a young ‘un at 36, but I am still interested in contraception. Last fall, when I discussed it with my midwife after giving birth, I was shocked when she told me she’d never fitted a diaphragm. Then the pharmacy told me they didn’t stock them, and they’d have to figure out if they could find one for me. (They did.) I was really surprised too that this form of contraception had been abandoned. So few risks compared to the others! I looked into Lea’s Shield and the cervical cap while I was waiting to see if they could find me a new one, and my main observation was that their failure rate after a vaginal delivery was bad – apx 25%. All are listed at a 5-10% failure rate prior to giving birth, but the diaphram doesn’t change after delivery.

  19. We thought that the sponges were wonderful, after a couple of decades of condoms. Now, we just regret the chances we missed of having more children. The two who made it into this world have been wonderful. However, parents of our generation (b.1950) gave us the distinct impression that children were a burden. We knew we wanted a child or two, but David Rockefeller’s protege, Paul Ehrlich, convinced us that more than one was irresponsible. It was surely not the only lie to fool us, but it was most definitely part of the tissue of lies that, once we realized what had been done to us, contributed greatly to our rightward shift. We wonder, now, what is in store for us as we age, and how we can defend ourselves from it.

  20. ” Michael Adams Says:
    January 25th, 2016 at 11:44 am

    We thought that the sponges were wonderful, after a couple of decades of condoms. Now, we just regret the chances we missed of having more children. The two who made it into this world have been wonderful. However, parents of our generation (b.1950) gave us the distinct impression that children were a burden. We knew we wanted a child or two, but David Rockefeller’s protege, Paul Ehrlich, convinced us that more than one was irresponsible. It was surely not the only lie to fool us, but it was most definitely part of the tissue of lies that, once we realized what had been done to us, contributed greatly to our rightward shift. We wonder, now, what is in store for us as we age, and how we can defend ourselves from it.”

    Speaking of Ehrlich, the Population Bomb, overpopulation, and those high school assembly hall consciousness raising sessions of the ’70s which informed students that it was your duty not to reproduce, one notes that the Ehrlichian alarm over fulminating population increases does not seem to extend to concern over increasing the population through illegal immigration.

    In fact it is assumed as a matter of principle that it not be. Some types of population increase are not so much a threat to man’s fate, the ecological balance, or social justice … or something.

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