Do readers not know about birth control?

[Zootonius]

If you get a chance read the comments on my story ‘you only think you’re in control’. i wrote it to troll the trolls. Over 300 comments.

Nice little story. One part caught my eye. A collogue of mine from years ago had a near-do-well husband. When she finally dumped him, he drained their join account and moved to another state, leaving her with two teenagers and no liquidity. Oh, he was jobless.

 

[Seadog777]

If you get a chance read the comments on my story ‘you only think you’re in control’. i wrote it to troll the trolls. Over 300 comments.

I'll look it up tonight or tomorrow.

 

[Northern_Writer]

If you get a chance read the comments on my story ‘you only think you’re in control’. i wrote it to troll the trolls. Over 300 comments.

Read it and loved it, gave it five stars. I have met too many guys who were the spiritual brothers of her husband. The comments were fun to read too.

 

[jehoram]

I usually allude to some form of birth control in my stories because it's a natural question that any responsible man would ask. Sometimes it's just the old "rhythm" method, but that worked pretty well for hundreds of years.

Not for my mom. I was the result.

 

[Grendelpuppy]

I write a lot of group sex scenes. I always get the commenters saying, “and when she gets pregnant she won’t know who the father is.” Do these people not realize that you don’t get pregnant every time you have sex and that women have a choice of several methods of birth control to prevent pregnancy

At the risk of seeming to be politically correct, I should point out that the issue of birth control is not a binary decision. It isn't a question of being protected verses not protected. No birth control method is 100% effective. Not even the BC pill is so close to perfect that a woman can ignore the risks. Only tubal ligation or contraceptive implants come close to being perfectly effective.

Conversely; totally unprotected sex doesn't necessarily ensure pregnancy. A woman's fertility declines with age. A woman's fertile window lasts for only a few days out of each cycle with peak fertility lasting for only several hours prior to ovulation. Even during peak fertility, pregnancy isn't assured. For a young woman having sex during her fertile window, the probability of pregnancy is less than 90%.

If you peruse the statistics on BC effectiveness, you will find a theoretically perfect tate and a typical use rate given for each method. This is the probability of pregnancy for not just one act of intercourse or one night but for the duration of a year presuming "normal" frequency of intercourse. If you crunch the numbers, the probability of a woman getting pregnant during a single encounter is actually quite low. This is skewed for serendipitous, particularly extramarital, encounters that a woman is more likely to indulge in during her fertile window.

Of course the characters in my stories rely on politically incorrect BC methods such as periodic abstinence or withdrawal. Contrary to what people are taught in sex education in an effort to scare them into abstinence or sterilization, Vatican Roulette as well as pull and pray are about as effective as the almighty condom. Folks like Planned Parenthood and the Gutmacher Institute are now actually advocating withdrawal as an extra precaution, especially when a woman is in the middle of her cycle.

The bottom line is that authors should be at liberty to write about encounters during which no precautions or "marginal" precautions are taken.

 

[Athalia]

Folks like Planned Parenthood and the Gutmacher Institute are now actually advocating withdrawal as an extra precaution, especially when a woman is in the middle of her cycle.

I haven't checked lately, but it should be noted that the word "extra" is significant here.

And the fact that even the best method isn't perfectly reliable underscores the importance for a woman to have the option of an abortion, and for that option to be guaranteed by law.

The bottom line is that authors should be at liberty to write about encounters during which no precautions or "marginal" precautions are taken.

I agree with that to the extent that if the author likes to tell stories firmly rooted in fantasy, where men are always hard, women are always ready for hot sex, and nobody suffers any consequences like pregnancy or STDs or unwholesome attachments, then there will always be readers who like to see that sort of thing.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No birth control method is 100% effective.

What! My Catholic High School lied to me that abstinence was 100% effective? The bastards!

Em

 

[Imstillfun]

I agree with that to the extent that if the author likes to tell stories firmly rooted in fantasy, where men are always hard, women are always ready for hot sex, and nobody suffers any consequences like pregnancy or STDs or unwholesome attachments, then there will always be readers who like to see that sort of thing.

my kind of story, good stroke fantasy, everyone happy and satisfied in the end.

 

[jehoram]

What! My Catholic High School lied to me that abstinence was 100% effective? The bastards!

Abstinence is to birth control what asphyxiation is to breathing.

 

[PandemicReader8]

I'll give good odds they are men. There's a certain type who like promiscuous men but hate promiscuous women. The idea of free spirited women is anathema to them.

I got some... shall we say inspired commentary on my first story because of this. I had the nerve to indulge the idea of not only women taking charge of their sex lives, but women as dominant, and one actively cheating on her husband. But, their knowledge of details tells me they read the whole thing. So...