Sex is only for the rich in the US

[frigidweirdo]

BBC News - Recreational sex is a rich person s game

"The US doesn't want poor people to have sex. Or rather, it has instituted policies that deny the economically disadvantaged easy access to low-cost birth control, either through insurance or publicly funded family planning programmes.'

""By process of elimination, the solution for low-income people is to never, ever have sex," she says. Enforced celibacy, it seems, is the hoped-for outcome."

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While some on the right welcome what they see as a trend towards valuing virginity among teen girls, Rampell calls this kind of logic "magical thinking":

"The belief that we can get entire classes of Americans to practise abstinence until they're financially ready for marriage and children is a right-wing delusion on par with the left-wing delusions that go into socialism: both rely on a fundamental miscalculation about human nature. If the socialists wished to legislate away self-interest, the moralists wish to legislate away libido."

She concludes that it's just another example of the two Americas that live separate and side-by side, rich and poor."

 

[Rikurzhen]

Her column is idiotic. My reluctance to not make myself poorer has nothing to do with wanting to stop poor people from having sex, I just don't want to pay for it. Sell your iPhone or your sneakers and go buy some condoms yourself. Go get your tubes tied.

With reproductive freedom comes responsibility. If you're adult enough to have sex, then you're adult enough to pay for birth control.

 

[frigidweirdo]

(Lust is STDs)

You look at the maps, lower income areas, lower education areas are more likely to have higher teenage pregnancy rates, higher sexually transmitted diseases rates too.

 

[TemplarKormac]

You're joking, right?

 

[Rikurzhen]

(Lust is STDs)

You look at the maps, lower income areas, lower education areas are more likely to have higher teenage pregnancy rates, higher sexually transmitted diseases rates too.

 

[frigidweirdo]

What's your point?

 

[Truman123]

The best sex I ever had was when I was poor.


It was dirty.

 

[Anathema]

Rich or Poor should not make any difference. The criteria for engaging in any level of sexual intercourse us simple. ....

Are both parties of age to make potentially life changing decisions?

Are both parties prepared to accept the potential physical, emotional and financial consequences of the sexual act?

Are both parties consenting to the act?

So long as those three criteria are met, go right ahead. HOWEVER, this should also mean no abortions and no Government aid if a child us produced.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Rich or Poor should not make any difference. The criteria for engaging in any level of sexual intercourse us simple. ....

Are both parties of age to make potentially life changing decisions?

Are both parties prepared to accept the potential physical, emotional and financial consequences of the sexual act?

Are both parties consenting to the act?

So long as those three criteria are met, go right ahead. HOWEVER, this should also mean no abortions and no Government aid if a child us produced.

The point the article makes is this. Firstly, people are going to have sex, it's natural. Forget the rubbish Christianity has attempted to impose on us, sex is normal, it's natural.
Secondly, the US promotes not having sex by taking away education and access to contraception.

In doing so it leaves the poor and often under-educated up the duff more than they would probably like to be, it leaves them with diseases they'd probably not have.

 

[BluesLegend]

Liberal propaganda, you people make it sound like the poor are so helpless and stupid their decisions are someone else's fault.

 

[shart_attack]

The best sex I ever had was when I was poor.

It was dirty.

Bet it stank, too.

 

[Anathema]

In doing so it leaves the poor and often under-educated up the duff more than they would probably like to be, it leaves them with diseases they'd probably not have.

Cry me a river. If they're too stupid to figure out the consequences then they'll get to live them. My only issue is my tax money being used to bail their asses out after the fact.

 

[Redfish]

Rich or Poor should not make any difference. The criteria for engaging in any level of sexual intercourse us simple. ....

Are both parties of age to make potentially life changing decisions?

Are both parties prepared to accept the potential physical, emotional and financial consequences of the sexual act?

Are both parties consenting to the act?

So long as those three criteria are met, go right ahead. HOWEVER, this should also mean no abortions and no Government aid if a child us produced.

The point the article makes is this. Firstly, people are going to have sex, it's natural. Forget the rubbish Christianity has attempted to impose on us, sex is normal, it's natural.
Secondly, the US promotes not having sex by taking away education and access to contraception.

In doing so it leaves the poor and often under-educated up the duff more than they would probably like to be, it leaves them with diseases they'd probably not have.

Christianity does not disdain sex. Christianity disdains perversion.

Condums are available in every drug store, convenience store, and gas station in the country. If you can't afford $1 for a condum then you have no business screwing. You libs are so full of shit.

 

[NLT]

Yes most of the US wants people to have responsible sex.
Some how liberals, blacks and hispanics cant figure that out.

 

[Redfish]

Liberal propaganda, you people make it sound like the poor are so helpless and stupid their decisions are someone else's fault.

don't you get it? liberals are never responsible for anything. Its always someone else's fault. They are perpetual victims.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

It's amazing that there are people who actually believe it's the governments role to supply birth control.
But then again when you have people like the OP who work to train people to look to the government for everything, they do become helpless when the government isn't there.

 

[frigidweirdo]

In doing so it leaves the poor and often under-educated up the duff more than they would probably like to be, it leaves them with diseases they'd probably not have.

Cry me a river. If they're too stupid to figure out the consequences then they'll get to live them. My only issue is my tax money being used to bail their asses out after the fact.

Well it's not that they're too stupid to figure out the consequences, it's that often they can't afford the alternative.

Ie, the point this article is making.

 

[frigidweirdo]

It's amazing that there are people who actually believe it's the governments role to supply birth control.
But then again when you have people like the OP who work to train people to look to the government for everything, they do become helpless when the government isn't there.

Actually, the article is saying the govt actually helps restrict the access of birth control. Without the govt sticking its nose in, people would have better education of such important matters and also more options at a viable price.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Yes most of the US wants people to have responsible sex.
Some how liberals, blacks and hispanics cant figure that out.

responsible sex? Who has responsible sex? Sounds like "oh dear, you pull down your pants and will do it for a few minutes in the corner" "oh, okay dear, would you like a cup of tea while we do it too?"

God sakes, responsible sex!!!!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Christianity does not disdain sex. Christianity disdains perversion.

Condums are available in every drug store, convenience store, and gas station in the country. If you can't afford $1 for a condum then you have no business screwing. You libs are so full of shit.

And sex is perversion? So goes the tune.

Answer this question. Why do you think STD rates, teenage pregnancy rates are higher in areas with lower education levels and lower average income.

Does a 14 year old have any business screwing around? Not really.

Do they do it? Definitely. Damn, in my area a girl was preggers at 13.