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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/1tnKb9P:not-even-even replied to your post “deputychairman replied to your post “The fact that I’m not currently…”
there are injections you can get very rarely and it is solved for a long time? also subdermal releases? you can totally back up/replace those barriers.
You know, the specifics of my sex life are such that it’s not really an issue of needing birth control to avoid pregnancy? Like, not to be gross TMI or anything, but it turns out when your dude is even less into kids than you are and takes it seriously, it’s not particularly a hassle to avoid having that be a particular issue. It makes me sort of sad that this is apparently so rare a situation. (Though, in the deeps of my memory, he was a little unenthused about it, initially.) (But like. Seriously. He had to educate himself, as he went to a Catholic school and thus had basically zero idea where babies come from, but he did so, and has conducted himself accordingly, without fail, for basically our whole relationship, following one early mishap that did not actually result in any disasters. I have gently suggested that he could get the little snip-snip if he wanted, but that’s up to him.)
I’d like to not have wild mood swings and terrible cramps, though. That would be chill. Apparently menstrual cramps aren’t supposed to be painful once you’re beyond puberty, and so the likelihood that I have some underlying condition is apparently up in the 80% range, but I am also likely to never get that diagnosed even if I do complain about it, because western medicine just straight doesn’t give a fuck about that sort of thing. I just saw the post that was going around about it again, and I didn’t reblog it but I meant to. I’m a little low on spoons today, to appropriate a thing. (Is it appropriation? Well, it’s a useful metaphor.)
But like. It’s sort of stupid that birth control is exclusively a women’s issue. And by sort of stupid, I mean, unconscionably ridiculous.
there are injections you can get very rarely and it is solved for a long time? also subdermal releases? you can totally back up/replace those barriers.
You know, the specifics of my sex life are such that it’s not really an issue of needing birth control to avoid pregnancy? Like, not to be gross TMI or anything, but it turns out when your dude is even less into kids than you are and takes it seriously, it’s not particularly a hassle to avoid having that be a particular issue. It makes me sort of sad that this is apparently so rare a situation. (Though, in the deeps of my memory, he was a little unenthused about it, initially.) (But like. Seriously. He had to educate himself, as he went to a Catholic school and thus had basically zero idea where babies come from, but he did so, and has conducted himself accordingly, without fail, for basically our whole relationship, following one early mishap that did not actually result in any disasters. I have gently suggested that he could get the little snip-snip if he wanted, but that’s up to him.)
I’d like to not have wild mood swings and terrible cramps, though. That would be chill. Apparently menstrual cramps aren’t supposed to be painful once you’re beyond puberty, and so the likelihood that I have some underlying condition is apparently up in the 80% range, but I am also likely to never get that diagnosed even if I do complain about it, because western medicine just straight doesn’t give a fuck about that sort of thing. I just saw the post that was going around about it again, and I didn’t reblog it but I meant to. I’m a little low on spoons today, to appropriate a thing. (Is it appropriation? Well, it’s a useful metaphor.)
But like. It’s sort of stupid that birth control is exclusively a women’s issue. And by sort of stupid, I mean, unconscionably ridiculous.
