tw: rape aplogogy, victim blaming, slut shaming.
GROWING UP IS REALIZING:
President Obama and his teen mom.
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May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, which basically means it’s the...
When the Democrats and other pro-choicers argue for preserving and expanding access to birth control, they talk about pregnant rape survivors and mothers of three who want to ensure they can provide for the children they already have. They talk about Planned Parenthood’s life-saving cancer screenings.
They don’t talk about the millions of American women who aren’t mothers and don’t intend to be mothers, and just want to have sex. Lots of it. Purely for pleasure. Those millions of women get left out of this crucial conversation: their experiences obscured and stigmatized.
Wonderful stuff from The Guardian. The full article is here.
And then there’s women like me, who generally prefer not to have sex, but have reaped the benefits of birth control in...