Macbeth wrote:
ouinon wrote:
If you are a woman the threat of motherhood or an abortion is real, every time you have penile-vaginal penetrative sex. If you are a man it probably doesn't seem so dangerous "most of the time".
Real, perhaps. Huge, no. Minimal, yes. It simply is not the thing to be feared that you are selling it to be.
I posted figures on the last page for abortion in Australia; a very big study found that 33 out of 1000 women in their twenties had had an abortion, 70 % of them because of contraceptive failure. 19 out of 1000 women from puberty to the menopause had had one.
In 2005 the rate of death by cardiovascular disease, ( the most common cause of death ), was 22 out of 1000. And the number of deaths from (all ) cancers was 19 out of 1000.
In 2001 the number of live births in the USA was around 4 million. That is 14.5 births per 1000 people.
In 2003 the number of abortions was 1.3 million.
Penile-vaginal penetrative sex for fun/companionship/because that is "what one does" is very dangerous.
Fraya, it is causing more deaths per year than cancer, which is obviously
many more than die each year in car crashes.
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How much sex though? 33 from 1000.. and how many times had they engaged in copulation before they got pregnant? I find it hard to believe that each and every one of them became pregnant on their first go....