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She is making a GREAT point (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 41 points 10 months ago (12 children)

This is just logically wrong.

If birth control was only made for men, and 90% of men were on birth control, you could end up with far more pregnancies than if it's for women and 90% of women were on it.

The conclusion is exactly the opposite of the argument.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    I don’t understand you logic. Are you saying the remaining 10% of men would impregnate a disproportionate amount of women?

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    Yes. Because 10% of men is enough to impregnate all the women.

    As a guy though, I wish there was male birth control. I do not love that women get to decide if they are going to make me a father or not.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I mean there's condoms, and there's not ejaculating inside women. If you don't want the risk of being a father, those are things you can control.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    For what it is worth, my son was the result of the mother deciding where I would ejaculate through the use of “in the moment” physical force. So no, it was not really something I could control (though the risk of being there was my doing I understand).

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Besides, I believe there have been drug trials for hormonal birth control for men, but they never got approved.

    Take with this a mountain of salt though, I need to check my sources. I'll update later if I can find them again.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's exactly the point of the post in the first place, 1 man can impregnate many women, a woman can't get impregnated (contemporary) by many men

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    But a woman can deny as many potential pregnancies. The count ignores women who are already pregnant, both as men or women.

    A man can cause up to X pregnancies and thus prevent as much, a woman can only cause 1 but can prevent as much as a man. The important point is that this all matters before pregnancy. After, it doesn’t make sense anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Idk why I got downvoted. I just don’t understand, I’m not trying to make a point.

    I meant the 10% of men aren’t having more sex to make up for the 90% that are on birth control. They would be having the same amount of sex either way.

    Maybe I’m over thinking it.

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