I would like out of this time machine, please.

[happiestsadist]

It's kind of interesting to think about how far back we've really gone when it comes to sex within the last few years. I mean, I remember that condoms weren't this weird taboo thing, and the idea of women fucking because they want to was actually like relatively common. Like Salt-n-Pepa songs. And Left Eye from TLC with her condom eyepatch.It

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[ballyharnon]

What is this I don't even

how DO these creative writer types know how to make nooses?

I did find that somewhat amusing. I'm going to go with terrible satire.

Okay, it's official. I'm dressing as Tonks for halloween this year. And I'm giving out free condoms.

[ginasketch]

It,s been bahleeted!

[happiestsadist]

Wow, that was quick.

[rye_bunny]

please tell me there are caps, I feel like getting outraged this morning.

[happiestsadist]

I gotta go shower and go see the doctor, but I'm pretty sure there are some out there. Alternately, the Wayback Machine?

[starphotographs]

You know, it's kind of like when someone says "Oh I've been having such horrible bowel trouble lately, I won't go in to detail..." They always do, and you always end up hearing something you wish you hadn't. Also, it kind of seems like she believes that it takes like a hundred guys to make a baby. (Or syphilis. Whichever.)

She's like The Most Interesting Man in the World. "I don't always have sex, but when I do... It's unprotected."

Along related lines, meat does not spontaneously generate maggots, and mice to not appear from grain.

I love that a non-me person referenced this! :D I think I made a weird face for several seconds and then LOL'd when I first heard about that. It's one of the weirdest beliefs I've ever heard of. Now, I know people believe weird stuff when they're scientifically backward for whatever reason, but that just seems like serious "brain was out to lunch that day" shit. Just... So glad we have science and actual fact-finding now. Even if certain people choose to ignore it.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

Science has been around for a few millennia, just not to the degree it is today.

Also, if you didn't have a sizable body of knowledge like we do today, it is perfectly understandable that you would imagine meat to spontaneously generate maggots, or grain to spontaneously generate mice. We are all dependent on what our culture tells us is true, to a much greater degree than is acknowledged in the individualistic West.

People of bygone ages weren't stupid. "Backward"? Well, compare them with the anti-science fundies of today, who have science available to them and a secular culture that does not (yet) outlaw announcing new discoveries that contradict religious theories - and who deplore this state of affairs.

[happiestsadist]

Well, that and there's some evidence that the specific kind of thinking that modern science requires is one that may have developed to any real degree only somewhat recently.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

Interesting. Do you have a link about that? Not that I disbelieve you, but I'd like to read more about it.

It makes sense, though. If you're brought up in a culture that sees "portents" in everything and in which deviations from "common knowledge" are severely penalized, I can see how you'd be socialized to find scientific thinking highly unintuitive.

[x_creepy_doll_x]

I know right, it really is another dark age, just with electronic gadgets. Why don't we just go back to living in caves and wearing stitched together squirrel skins while we're at it?

[happiestsadist]

You kidding? Those squirrels are fast motherfuckers!

[x_creepy_doll_x]

Well, the rednecks in AL where I used to live still make stew out of them...

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[autosparta]

It's not the first time I've come accross 'modern women'(I use this term very loosely) having a cavalier attitude in regards to birth control. I've even come accross it in memoirs, written recently, about women who are our age. Sometimes I can't believe it.

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[ms_daisy_cutter]

{shrug} All women are human. Some human beings are dumb and irresponsible.

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[happiestsadist]

It's just such an incomprehensible attitude to me.

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[autosparta]

Ha, my favorite is the woman who wrote about her and her sister who both didn't use condoms or take anything and then just 'hoped for the best' once a month when it came to pregnancy.

This doesn't even begin to address the fact that the same writer had 2 or 3 different partners during the course of her memoir, which took place over the course of about a year.

Idiots.