Yep. OTOH I have almost zero sperm count. At some point I stopped using condoms with wife- after 4 1/2 years of infertility, it seemd a bit stupid to use condoms.
Never made a baby, but the paranoia was there, oh man was it. Millions of lazy water-treaders and all it would have taken was one Mark Spitz.
I said one Mark Spitz.
Spitz. Helloooo ?
God people.
As for sex during menstruation, it never squicked me out. As an added bonus, it delighted my lover that I used my tongue to create a lovely macrame with her tampon string.
I wish I had small children so I could wait till that special day and then sit them down and say, " Honey, when a Race Car Driver loves a Race Car Driver very, very much… "
We don’t have all the Straight Dope on contraception yet anyway, so how is someone supposed to speak completely accurately?
They are discovering that some women ovulate more than once a month. Other women are super-fertile–in my family, we get pregnant if we keep our underwear in the same drawer as the SO*.
One perfect form of birth control–no sex. It’s unreasonable to expect anyone to go through life that way. I tell my children, “Don’t have sex with anybody you don’t want to have a baby with. And always multiple forms of birth control.” My daughter got pregnant on the Pill due to interactions with antibotics and because she did not believe me when I told her to use a condom anyway.
Raw statistics about ‘average’ condom use are not appropriate in this comparison. A couple in a steady relationship, regularly using condoms, will both be familiar with them and also will probably receive advice at some stage on minimising the risk of problems. The ‘average’ condom use includes every teenager and one-night-stander who never quite has worked out which side is the inside.
There’s another lie women tell. Sex is good for a headache IME. I get headaches pretty often, and sex is better than Advil for making them go away, at least until about 10 minutes after the sex is over.
Are you joking? What works for you may not work for others. I know for a fact that sex does dick (heh) for my migraines. So does Advil, for that matter.
And this is where you are giving off an unintentional antagonistic vibe here. You experience isn’t enough of a basis to call other women liars. And I don’t think you mean that it is. But when you say That’s a “lie women tell”, it sounds like you are setting your self up as an authority on what women think/believe/experience because you happen to be one. And that raises people’s hackles. Surely you can see why?
I’m too lazy to check the whole thread to see if anyone mentioned that it doesn’t, in fact, take just one sperm. Sure, one sperm fertilizes the egg, but that’s like saying that only the running back scored the touchdown. He needed the whole team. In fact, it takes hundreds of sperm to wear down the egg’s jelly coat enough so one can get in. I’m not debating anything about chances of pregnancy here, just being technically accurate.
I’m KIDDING. Tell your hackles to relax. The whole “I have a headache” thing is a cliche worth spoofing on, don’t ya think? Or do you have a headache too?
I have to side with Manda JO on this one. What works for one person is not going to work for another. Saying that the old “I have a headache” is just another lie that women tell is definitely antagonistic.
I’ve heard that sex is good for making a headache go away, but when I have a full-blown migraine, I don’t want anyone to touch me, much less have sex with me.
Yeah, it would be if I was serious. Do you not believe that I was joking, or did you just not read that, or is everyone so defensive about my stance in this thread that it doesn’t matter what I say anymore, it’s antagonistic and you’re going to take it to task?
Honestly, did you sincerely, truly think I was saying, in a serious way, that sex cures migraines, and you just need to put out to make it better? Think about it… There you go.
Me, at this point I’m kind of leaning toward the position that you’re just bad at making jokes. I recommend more lavish use of smilies in order to flag your joke attempts for the unwary reader.
You’re right, I’m terrible at making jokes. You know me so well (who are you again?)… or maybe the lack of sense of humor and willingness to read the absolute worst into whatever I say here is coming from elsewhere in the thread. YMMV. <–smilies for your greater edification
But at least you aren’t actually accusing me of being serious. I guess that’s better than previous posters.
