Guys: Have you considered celibacy?


With Republicans so focused on women’s reproductive choices, it’s only fair we show men similar concern, especially when it comes to taking drugs for erectile dysfunction, says Robin Marty in RH Reality Check. That would include mandatory counseling on the risks of ED drugs, and on options, such as celibacy.

Jay Jochnowitz

18 Responses

  1. iknowtruthismine says:

    Chaste makes waste.

  2. Chad9976 says:

    a male birth control pill would go a long way. Also, making women’s birth control OTC rather than prescription would help massively.

  3. Pummel-Me-Paulie says:

    I found this article to be pretty disturbing, especially the ‘cheering’ in the comments section. Let’s celebrate Mysandry!

    “Two wrongs make a right” is a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation. Its antithesis, “two wrongs don’t make a right”, is a proverb used to rebuke or renounce wrongful conduct as a response to another person’s transgression.

    It’s wrong to interfere with what someone chooses to do with their body, male or female.

    What I have a problem with is government using a portion of my income to redistribute it to irresponsible people who feel they are entitled to use my money to remedy their poor judgement. I’ll stay out of your bedroom if you stay out of my wallet!

  4. outlaw lilith says:

    #3: Still, given human nature, it’s a natural outcome. If you don’t want the “equal and opposite reaction,” then don’t initiate the original action.

    I’m sure that you recognize that ED drugs can be used “irresponsibly” as well, such as for producing children that people either can’t or are unwilling to support. As such, I don’t want my tax dollars going there either, especially if women’s use of birth control in this situation is considered “irresponsible” by those object to their tax dollars being used THIS way.

  5. Pummel-Me-Paulie says:

    Fine, #4. I agree. No insurance coverage for ED drugs, too. All I’ve initiated is posting a comment. Cheering for public policy proposals as revenge for other bad public policy is childish nonsense.

  6. ann says:

    I agree with #4. Besides I’d rather have my tax dollars going providing birth control for others than having my tax dollars paying for multiple children the parents can’t afford. It’s much, much, much cheaper!!

    Men do have a history of being irresponsible, and celebrating it, when it comes to sex. Hopefully, that is changing, but the vitriol against bc pills makes me wonder how much men know about their own birth control techniques in their own marriages/relationships. The rhythm method doesn’t work. Condoms are not 100% effective by any means, vaginal implants are barbaric. Abstinance is not good for marriage, but the pill is 100% -minus user error. So what exactly do these men do? My suspicion is they let the women handle it and are blissfully ignorant.

  7. realist says:

    I’d rather have ann’s tax dollars paying for stuff for me, than to have to work to get the money to buy the stuff for myself. And I’d like to have your money, too. Why are you so greedy that you don’t want to work to make money to give to me while I spend everyone else’s money? Now, get to work and fork it over!

  8. ann says:

    #7 Could you please rephrase in a manner that repsonds to what I wrote rather than what your agenda interpretted?

    Or just give me your money and we’ll call it even :)

  9. realist says:

    I already did respond to what you wrote, ann. Now, where’s my money? Only a greedy capitalist could deny me their money.

    It’s the entitlement mentality, ann, the same mentality that makes people think that you should buy their birth control for them. Ugly, isnt it?

  10. ReepDaggle says:

    “I already did respond to what you wrote, ann.”

    Irrelevant gibberish being passed off as a relevant response, from the person who refuses to recognize the existence of factual on point answers that aren’t the ones he wants to hear. TOO FUNNY!!

  11. ann says:

    Okay would you rather a little of your tax dollars go to providing birth control or a lot of your tax dollars go to supporting unwanted kids? Entitlement isn’t going away neither is using our tax dollars to pay for things for others who may be irresponsible or lazy nor can we chose what our tax dollars go towards providing.

  12. Magpies says:

    Definitely – a bit more money to birth control, and a lot more money to spay/neuter funds to prevent daily mass-slaughtering of cats and dogs in the U.S.

  13. Realist says:

    reep, your “irrelevant gibberish being passed off as a relevant response” was most amusing! Thanks for caring enough bout what I post to read it and comment on it! Didn’t you “threaten” not to read my posts and not to respond to them, on more than one occassion?

  14. Realist says:

    ann, you have me all wrong! I want free birth control, free food, free medical care, free transportation, free housing, free education, free vacations, free everything… and I want YOU to pay for it, so that it can be free for me!

    I am entitled to your money. Now, stop being such a greedy capitalist, get to work, and gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!

  15. ReepDaggle says:

    To answer your direct question, no, I’ve never once “threatened” to not read your posts. I almost always do, at least in threads where I read anything. (Some topics don’t interest me enough to read any part of them, so I wouldn’t see your posts or anyone else’s.) I’ve only ever said I wouldn’t respond further in particular conversations when your arguments with me exceed my tolerance limit for foolishness. Don’t get me wrong, your posts generally get foolish almost immediately, but I can endure them for awhile before they go completely off the deep end.

  16. outlaw lilith says:

    #14: Agreed. I’m a rich person, and I want billions of taxpayer handouts/bailouts because I create SO many jobs (not). I’m a Wall Street banker who wants the working schnook to pay for my multi-million dollar bonus, after I’ve run my bank into the ground. I want to pay a much lower tax rate than the working schnook, because I am SO special. I want OTHER people to pay for paving the roads over which my company rolls its trucks, other people to pay for the cops who maintain civil order so I can get my goods to market, other people to pay to educate my future workforce whom I can exploit and underpay. I am a defense contractor who doesn’t want to have to engage in competitive bidding, so I can continue to charge the working schnook $650 for an aircraft toilet seat or a hammer. I am a pharmaceutical company that doesn’t want to pay taxes for medical research, but wants the government to turn the patents over to ME so I can profit.

    Now, middle/class schnook, keep working ’til you drop dead, to pay for me! I’m am so entitled, because I am rich! Gimme Gimme Gimme!

  17. bassjig34 says:

    There is no reason I should pay for your birth control. I am not asking you to pay for my drugs.

  18. outlaw lilith says:

    #17: There is no reason I should pay for wars. I am not getting anything out of it.

    Are you, perchance, catching my drift?