Santorum Backer: Asprin between knees = Contraception

[Wolfie]

This is a really, really insulting statement. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

Yeah, why is it ALWAYS the woman's problem to these people. They need to learn to keep their dicks in their pants instead.

[Austin]

Friess is on The Last Word and he just got done saying that he has been "blessed by contraception". :shock:

[PokaDot]

He tweeted and said that he is going to be on Last Word tonight to clarify his comments.

I'm not exactly sure how you can clarify "keep your legs together".....

[thoughtful]

Ah, the "it was a joke" excuse, with the added "you young folks wouldn't get it" fillip.

Fuckwit.

ETA -- that's not a joke. When I was young, there was a line going around about an alternative birth control pill -- for men.

For men, you ask?

Sure -- he puts the pill in his shoe, and it makes him limp!

(we need a rimshot smilie)

That one at least had some wordplay in it. The "hold an aspirin between your knees" crap is not a joke -- it's a blast at women. We know it, he knows it.

[PokaDot]

Ah, the "it was a joke" excuse, with the added "you young folks wouldn't get it" fillip.

Fuckwit.

If I'm not allowed to joke about making them a eunuch, they aren't allowed to joke about my health.

[debrand]

You know, back in my days, they used bare aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.â€

He was born in 1940's. That means that his generation were the hippies and proponents of free love. I don't think that many gals were using asprin as a form in BC in his days.

[shesinsane]

Yeah, why is it ALWAYS the woman's problem to these people. They need to learn to keep their dicks in their pants instead.

True, but women have a lot more at stake. See the thread about Razing Ruth's sister - she's pregnant and dealing with the consequences, sperm donor is courting some other girl (and probably claiming he's still a virgin).

[Wolfie]

True, but women have a lot more at stake. See the thread about Razing Ruth's sister - she's pregnant and dealing with the consequences, sperm donor is courting some other girl (and probably claiming he's still a virgin).

The issue I have is that they blame the women, and totally ignore that a guy was involved too.

And it is unfortunate that men don't have more at stake, but while they'll never have the physical effects of pregnancy, at least they can't deny as easily as they used to with DNA testing now.

[SquirrelySquirrel]

I remember when I was in middle school there was an urban legend going around that spraying Lysol up your twat was an effective method of birth control.

Women really used to douche with Lysol to try to prevent pregnancy. If you watch Boardwalk Empire, Margaret -the sometimes devout Catholic who barely escaped the Magdalene Laundries- does this after sex, and it seems that it was quite common in that time (the 20's). I had never heard of that before watching the show, and have no idea how helpful it was, and my lady parts are still burning just thinking about it!

[thoughtful]

Women really used to douche with Lysol to try to prevent pregnancy. If you watch Boardwalk Empire, Margaret -the sometimes devout Catholic who barely escaped the Magdalene Laundries- does this after sex, and it seems that it was quite common in that time (the 20's). I had never heard of that before watching the show, and have no idea how helpful it was, and my lady parts are still burning just thinking about it!

Google the words lysol douche ad, and you will get an eyeful (you should pardon the expression).

[StarrieEyedKat]

I discovered this nifty little facebook group today - http://www.facebook.com/OMPOW - and one of their status updates was the following:

Dear GOP,

You want to make my egg a person and take away my rights to safe birth control? You offer, holding an aspirin between my knees, as a viable alternative to reasonable birth control? You want to make legislation demanding I carry my rapists baby to full term?

Well, I want to shove a viagra half way up your shaft with a hot poker. As a matter of the fact, that solution is manifesting itself into my favored form of birth control right now...

:twisted:

[shesinsane]

Google the words lysol douche ad, and you will get an eyeful (you should pardon the expression).

HBO's Boardwalk Empire dealt with birth control issue. The girlfriend of a politician went to her friend from the Temperance Union to get contraception advice. A later scene showed her reading about douching and getting out a bottle of Lysol.

[thoughtful]

HBO's Boardwalk Empire dealt with birth control issue. The girlfriend of a politician went to her friend from the Temperance Union to get contraception advice. A later scene showed her reading about douching and getting out a bottle of Lysol.

They actually advertised it, for years, just to "stay fresh," not as contraception. But I guess the myth grew that it would also be a morning-after burn wash.

:shock:

If you did the google, a few rows down the page, an ad came up for a gentler alternative -- Listerine! :?

[browngrl]

I heard some crazy stories about "home made" birth control methods.

best: one person told me she could not get pregnant because her boyfriend wore tight jeans - I told her that tight jeans were 100% effective BUT you had to keep them on. Once they were off...not so effective.

worst: one girl said she could not be pregnant because "you can't get pregnant when someone forced you to do it" (I won't tell what had happened to her but suffice to say it was BAD)

[LynnKaboom]

Women really used to douche with Lysol to try to prevent pregnancy. If you watch Boardwalk Empire, Margaret -the sometimes devout Catholic who barely escaped the Magdalene Laundries- does this after sex, and it seems that it was quite common in that time (the 20's). I had never heard of that before watching the show, and have no idea how helpful it was, and my lady parts are still burning just thinking about it!

Holy crap, that actually happened?! I thought it was just one of those middle-school myths, like you can get pregnant from kissing or STDs from a chair or something!

YEOW. :o

[TaylorMaid]

[llv]

I also remember hearing that some soda (I think it might have been Dr. Pepper) worked too. It's amazing the crazy things people will believe about birth control

Mountain Dew?

Back when I was in school everyone said that Mountain Dew lowered your sperm count... ie making it less likely for you to get pregnant if you had sex with a guy who drank lots of mountain dew.

:lol:

[SpeakNow]

Mountain Dew?

Back when I was in school everyone said that Mountain Dew lowered your sperm count... ie making it less likely for you to get pregnant if you had sex with a guy who drank lots of mountain dew.

:lol:

When I was in high school I remember some guys saying that if I guy peed inside of a girl after ejaculating that it would kill all the sperm. :roll:

[Austin]

And it is unfortunate that men don't have more at stake, but while they'll never have the physical effects of pregnancy, at least they can't deny as easily as they used to with DNA testing now.

But the reality is that they don't have more at stake, so their opinion as to policy on these issues has to be relegated to the peripheral, at most.

[kpmom]

But the reality is that they don't have more at stake, so their opinion as to policy on these issues has to be relegated to the peripheral, at most.

This.

[shesinsane]

I heard some crazy stories about "home made" birth control methods.

best: one person told me she could not get pregnant because her boyfriend wore tight jeans - I told her that tight jeans were 100% effective BUT you had to keep them on. Once they were off...not so effective.

worst: one girl said she could not be pregnant because "you can't get pregnant when someone forced you to do it" (I won't tell what had happened to her but suffice to say it was BAD)

In the 90s, state senator Henry Aldridge in North Carolina publicly insisted that women that were raped could not get pregnant. Specifically, "the juices don't flow", so if a woman claims she got pregnant from a rape, she secretly enjoyed it (otherwise she couldn't be pregnant). Sadly, he's not alone in this view. Obviously his argument can be countered with science, but if you think scientists are just liberal elites trying to get grant funds... sigh.

[BayLee_10]

Off Topic but interesting:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/ric ... -percenter

[O Latin]

In the 90s, state senator Henry Aldridge in North Carolina publicly insisted that women that were raped could not get pregnant. Specifically, "the juices don't flow", so if a woman claims she got pregnant from a rape, she secretly enjoyed it (otherwise she couldn't be pregnant). Sadly, he's not alone in this view. Obviously his argument can be countered with science, but if you think scientists are just liberal elites trying to get grant funds... sigh.

Okay, I don't usually pull out the "this is the 21st century" line, but...this is the 21st century. We learned in my Medieval peasants class last semester that people in the middle ages believed that conception could only occur if both the man and the woman orgasmed, thus making it difficult to accuse someone of rape if a pregnancy occurred. I don't blame the folks back then for believing it, but seriously, today (or in the 90's)? Ridiculous.

[emmiedahl]

But the reality is that they don't have more at stake, so their opinion as to policy on these issues has to be relegated to the peripheral, at most.

I don't think men even deserve a place at the table when policy regarding women's bodies is being made. They have opinions about it, sure, and they are entitled to them. Just like I have opinions about how Greece should handle their financial crisis. But like my opinion about Greek finances, their opinions about my body are completely irrelevant.

[slickcat79]

I don't think men even deserve a place at the table when policy regarding women's bodies is being made. They have opinions about it, sure, and they are entitled to them. Just like I have opinions about how Greece should handle their financial crisis. But like my opinion about Greek finances, their opinions about my body are completely irrelevant.

I don't know why more men's opinions don't seem to match with most women's in this case. Yes, they don't have as much at stake, but surely most men don't want a higher risk of impregnating a woman every time they have sex? They would have to face the financial responsibility of a child, or potentially risk hurting/killing a woman they care about in the case of a dangerous pregnancy. I'm really confused as to why this is a thing. Especially why it seems to have developed into a (douchebag) man vs. woman thing.