There are all kinds of jobs involved in heterosexual sex, but it’s women who have long been tasked with outlaying the time and money to facilitate a baby-free-bang.
, and the consequences of inevitable forgetfulness will again land on women.
The benefits of hormonal birth control fall heavily on the cis-het male in a relationship, yet the cost and burden of contraception are not shared.That’s right, if you’d hoped that by 2023 the burden of pregnancy and responsibilities of child-rearing would fall evenly upon both partners, I invite you to take a squiz atSubreddit, where the original poster details the many ways his pregnant roommate has been leaning too heavily on him for support, thus making her pregnancy “his problem”.
Apart from an interlude during which we conceived our son, I’ve been on the pill since I was 17, and naturally took care of everything from prescription to ingestion. But lately, if the subject of my husband’s inevitable vasectomy comes up, he crosses his legs and exclaims, “No one’s chopping off my bits!” .Jokes aside, I wholeheartedly resent that for 13 years it’s been up to me to keep my oven free of unwanted buns while my male counterparts have simply had to show up and drop trou.
Because really, in the case of cisgender, heterosexual coupling, it can easily be argued that the benefits of hormonal birth control fall heavily on the cis-het male side of the scale. Advantages for men can include condom-free sex, zero emotional labour, and a distinctly child-free life. For women, the benefits are, well, not being pregnant, yet the costs are numerous.
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