Discussion on Ejaculate Responsibly
Thu, Dec 08
|At Birch Tree
Join us for a discussion daring us to think about how men should play a role in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Is it time to flip the script on birth control?
Time & Location
Dec 08, 2022, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
At Birch Tree, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America.
In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for preventing pregnancy.
The result is a compelling and convincing case for placing…