| Just in case there is a gay person out there, and if they didn't
want to be excluded, they might think the following:
That all pieces to the natural birth control puzzle
are in place and that most of us are frightened at the possibility
of its existence.
Just a flick of a little neurological, sociological, biological,
in any case, logical switch he or she can transform sexual pleasures
to birthing pleasures.
The means of accessing this natural switch is what prevents most from
exploring all possibilities.
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| My fantasy runs something along the lines of "Dreamsnake" (by Vonda
MacIntyre. If you haven't read it yet, by all means do, talk about
your powerful female role models!)
Anyway, I'd like everyone to be able to control, by an act of will,
their ability to father/conceive a child. In Dreamsnake, simple, easily
learned biofeedback techniques allow men to control the temperature of
their testicles, and therefore their ability to produce viable sperm.
I'd love to be able to do that. Women too, in the story have the
ability to control either ovulation or implantation. (But men are
customarily expected to take care of things...) Imagine, a world where
EVERY child is concieved deliberately, as an act of will.
Failing that, I'd like a safe, reliable, convenient male contraceptive.
Say a little pill I could take every day, or an injection I could
get that would make me infertile for a month, or six.
I'd like to see more funding into safe and effective forms of
contraceptives for BOTH sexes. I'd like to see what information
we DO have on contraception available to EVERYONE.
I guess the bottom line is, my fanatsy is: no unwanted children.
Oops, this is supposed to be *fun*. Ok, how about this, I wish that
when two people had sex, it was random which one of them might get
pregnant!
How about a world where, at puberty, everyone had their fertility
surpressed. Then, when you wanted to concieve, you went and mixed
up an egg and a sperm (one from each partner, doesn't matter which
comes from where, genetic engineering dontcha know) and one of you
carried it to term. Something about this scene bothers me... I can't
put my finger on it though.
-- Charles
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| My ideal would be 'birth control', not 'conception control'. I
don't mind being pregnant and I love babies (mine, that is, not
yours!) What I can't hack is the giving birth part.
Now if I just had a zipper up my tummy, so that when the baby had
reached a good size and was all ready to come, I could just unzip
it, lift the kid out, and zip it back up . . . no blood, no episotomy
(bet I spelled that wrong!), no wincing every time you use the bathroom
for the next six weeks . . .
--bonnie
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| Re .4
I overheard some children playing awhile back. One of their mothers
was pregnant. One of the other children asked "How does it get
out?" Another one (obviously an expert :^) told her that they go
to the hospital, the doctor opens her belly, takes the baby out,
zips it back up, and they all go home. Too bad she was wrong...
:^)
My utopian world would be one where men and woman had an equal chance
of becomming pregnant. I suspect that would solve most, if not
all, of the equality issues (perhaps abortion would be a sacrement
if men could get pregnant?).
Elizabeth
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| When I was pregnant with Ryan, I used to have dreams during
the night that I could take him out of my belly and play with
him for awhile (then put him back inside for the rest of the
day to grow some more.)
What must have been happening was that he woke up and found
all sorts of room (since I was lying stretched out on my side
while sleeping), so he made good use of the room and moved more
than usual ... causing me to dream about little baby body parts
trying to get out of my stomach.
My dreams were vivid enough to imagine having his entire person
on my lap (with the cord still going into my stomach), but I
never once dreamed that I looked to see what sex he was.
I would hold him on my lap, then put him back in my stomach when
we were finished.
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