I used to get pregnant, but then I took an aspirin to the knee

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 02:51AM #1

Here's something to ridicule:
Foster Freiss Suggests "Aspirin Between Their Knees" As Contraception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOI7fokqkFc

He's a backer of Rick Santorum, who is trying to get a presidential nomination in the USA. Santorum is anti-contraception too.

*Thread title robbed from youtube comments.

Biggins · 19-02-2012 02:52AM

God bless America!

YEEE... HAAAAAA!!!

southsiderosie · 19-02-2012 03:05AM

The "gals" put aspirin between their knees for contraception?

Who needs the pill when you have Bayer!

starbelgrade · 19-02-2012 03:07AM

southsiderosie wrote: »

The "gals" put aspirin between their knees for contraception?

Who needs the pill when you have Bayer!

What I think he meant is that in his day, the best contraception was keeping your legs closed!

Princess Peach · 19-02-2012 03:10AM

It's what I was told in school anyway! God Bless Ireland!

Totally true though.

southsiderosie · 19-02-2012 03:13AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

What I think he meant is that in his day, the best contraception was keeping your legs closed!

I know. That doesn't make it any less stupid.

KKkitty · 19-02-2012 03:14AM

When I first started to take the pill my mother said to hold it between my knees

ejmaztec · 19-02-2012 03:20AM

It's ironic that women having a headache is also a contraceptive.

Yakult · 19-02-2012 03:27AM

I used to be pregnant, then I eated it.

Nodin · 19-02-2012 10:15AM

southsiderosie wrote: »

I know. That doesn't make it any less stupid.

It's folksy wisdom, is what it is.

Ellis Dee · 19-02-2012 10:21AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

What I think he meant is that in his day, the best contraception was keeping your legs closed!

Hasn't he heard of anal? Or, as a Republican, does he think you are only supposed to do that with guys?:):):)

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 11:47AM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Hasn't he heard of anal? Or, as a Republican, does he think you are only supposed to do that with guys?:):):)

I thought republicans want to do that to lots of people - the poor, ethnic minorities etc...

mawk · 19-02-2012 11:52AM

I used to use contraception but then I accidentally some asprin between my knees

19-02-2012 11:54AM

until you get married of course, because a marriage cert is a good contraceptive and no married couples ever have unexpected pregnancies

44leto · 19-02-2012 12:40PM

He's right, and it was a joke.

I am not that old but to get sex in my day it took a few dates, then a dinner and flowers, then you might get a french kiss a few weeks or even months later on a city or country break you may have got sex.

Then you dropped the slut.

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 12:47PM

44leto wrote: »

He's right, and it was a joke.

It's the anti-contraception agenda that invites the ridicule though. Mind boggles that there is any support for such an ideology in the USA.

44leto · 19-02-2012 12:57PM

blatantrereg wrote: »

It's the anti-contraception agenda that invites the ridicule though. Mind boggles that there is any support for such an ideology in the USA.

I am not against but here is something to think about. Before there was readily available and cheap contraception there were a lot less unwanted pregnancies.

19-02-2012 12:58PM

44leto wrote: »

I am not against but here is something to think about. Before there was readily available and cheap contraception there were a lot less unwanted pregnancies.

yeah those laundries totally didn't exist, and anyone who had a kid always announced if they didn't want it or not

where's mary? she's gone to stay on her aunt's farm in england for a few months

44leto · 19-02-2012 01:03PM

bluewolf wrote: »

yeah those laundries totally didn't exist, and anyone who had a kid always announced if they didn't want it or not

where's mary? she's gone to stay on her aunt's farm in england for a few months

I haven't got any figures, I could find some, but I think what I said is obvious. When they were drafting the policies of the welfare state in Britain after the war they never even considered lone parents, because it didn't need consideration. Now that is a very substantial welfare bill.

19-02-2012 01:04PM

because it wasn't acceptable to acknowledge, more like

not going with this one til i see some numbers and some basis for how accurate they could have been given the stigma

Sindri · 19-02-2012 01:05PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Hasn't he heard of anal? Or, as a Republican, does he think you are only supposed to do that with guys?:):):)

Has anyone mentioned yet that the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is known colloquially as Santorum.

44leto · 19-02-2012 01:11PM

bluewolf wrote: »

because it wasn't acceptable to acknowledge, more like

not going with this one til i see some numbers and some basis for how accurate they could have been given the stigma

Here wiki

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=alone%20parents%20statistics%20history&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSingle_parent&ei=ReZAT6OZJca4hAfc56nMBQ&usg=AFQjCNHZ5mj_99SXx1jnvF-506A8Nl6gMA&cad=rja

Since the 1960s, there has been a marked increase in the number of children living with a single parent. The 1960 United States Census reported that 9% of children were dependent on a single parent, a number that has increased to 28% by the 2000 US Census

I am really surprised you did not think that lone parentage has increased.

19-02-2012 01:19PM

you said unwanted pregnancies, not lone parenting

that could include widowers, broken marriages, etc etc

none of which involve unwanted pregnancies

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 01:21PM

44leto wrote: »

Here wiki

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=alone%20parents%20statistics%20history&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSingle_parent&ei=ReZAT6OZJca4hAfc56nMBQ&usg=AFQjCNHZ5mj_99SXx1jnvF-506A8Nl6gMA&cad=rja

I am really surprised you did not think that lone parentage has increased.

That data can be interpretted lots of ways. The average age of marriage is much higher now than it was, so there is more time for kids to be born beforehand. Similarly I would guess that separation/divorce rates have increased. I'd argue that family values have diminshed in importance in Western culture as a whole too.

I am more convinced by the argument in Freakonomics, which draws a correlation between the legalisation of abortion in the USA and decreased crime rates. They found thatcrime rates dropped in each state after the same period of time had passed since abortion had been legalised there.

dotsman · 19-02-2012 01:22PM

44leto wrote: »

I am not against but here is something to think about. Before there was readily available and cheap contraception there were a lot less unwanted pregnancies.

Are you actually being serious? Have you even thought this through?

Has it ever occurred to you that there are so many unintended pregnancies because of a lack of contraception?

The reason for the number of childbirths out of wedlock (with more children being born today out of wedlock than in) is down to a variety of factors such as massive social change in relation to how single mothers are perceived, the lack of sexual education and knowledge of contraceptives, the decline of religious authority, the generous welfare state, the lack of personal responsibility in today's society etc.

If you banned contraceptives, you'd have even more!

MagicMarker · 19-02-2012 01:32PM

44leto wrote: »

Here wiki

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=alone%20parents%20statistics%20history&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSingle_parent&ei=ReZAT6OZJca4hAfc56nMBQ&usg=AFQjCNHZ5mj_99SXx1jnvF-506A8Nl6gMA&cad=rja

I am really surprised you did not think that lone parentage has increased.

Lone parentage has increased because women are no longer ostracized for being a lone parent.

44leto · 19-02-2012 01:33PM

dotsman wrote: »

Are you actually being serious? Have you even thought this through?

Has it ever occurred to you that there are so many unintended pregnancies because of a lack of contraception?

The reason for the number of childbirths out of wedlock (with more children being born today out of wedlock than in) is down to a variety of factors such as massive social change in relation to how single mothers are perceived, the lack of sexual education and knowledge of contraceptives, the decline of religious authority, the generous welfare state, the lack of personal responsibility in today's society etc.

If you banned contraceptives, you'd have even more!

There really is not much to know, sex can lead to babies. So if you do not wish to become pregnant either use contraception or don't have sex. Tic Tac Toe.

I don't care about the amount of lone parents, I just care about footing the bill and the creation of a new welfare dependency class that seems to be inter generational.

I don't think contraception has reduced this problem, I think it has somehow made it worse. Another figure on a very upward curve are STDs.

As I said above, its just something to think about, but I am very much for more readily available contraception and abortion, but i seriously doubt those will reduce the problem of teen and unwanted pregnancies, the record speaks for itself.

dotsman · 19-02-2012 01:39PM

44leto wrote: »

There really is not much to know, sex can lead to babies. So if you do not wish to become pregnant either use contraception or don't have sex. Tic Tac Toe.

You will be shocked by how many people don't get that. For many young people, perhaps with drink involved, the sex leading to babies bit happens to other people not them. There are also many who believe in the natural methods (time of month/withdrawal) as a sufficient method.

44leto wrote: »

I don't care about the amount of lone parents, I just care about footing the bill and the creation of a new welfare dependency class that seems to be inter generational.

I agree with you on that.

44leto wrote: »

I don't think contraception has reduced this problem, I think it has somehow made it worse. Another figure on a very upward curve are STDs.

But again, I don't understand where this is coming from. Surely you accept there would be even more unplanned pregnancies and STI's if there weren't contraceptives?

later12 · 19-02-2012 01:46PM

Sindri wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned yet that the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is known colloquially as Santorum.

It's almost poetic when you say it like that.

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 01:51PM

dotsman wrote: »

You will be shocked by how many people don't get that. For many young people, perhaps with drink involved, the sex leading to babies bit happens to other people not them. There are also many who believe in the natural methods (time of month/withdrawal) as a sufficient method.

I agree with you on that.

But again, I don't understand where this is coming from. Surely you accept there would be even more unplanned pregnancies and STI's if there weren't contraceptives?

Well the sexual liberalisation in western culture that occurred around the sixties was probably largely triggered by the availability of the contraceptive pill. If people have sex more freely in general then more of them are going to get pregnant. So there might be a relationship there.

It would be difficult and inadvisable to try to revert general attitudes about sex though. need to move forwards with progressive solutions. Free and ubiquitous contraception might save more than it would cost tbh.

blatantrereg · 19-02-2012 01:51PM

later12 wrote: »

It's almost poetic when you say it like that.

You two need to get a room

I used to get pregnant, but then I took an aspirin to the knee

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