Pandy · 7 answers · 3y

If birth control (i.e. condoms, the pill etc.) never existed, would society be as sex obsessed as it is currently?

Humans have always been sex-obsessed: it just wasn’t talked about openly. Young, unmarried women have been “going to stay with their aunt in Darlington” (ie, shipped off to some godforsaken institution for ‘unmarried mothers’) forever. And it’s been proven time and time again that ready access to contraception does not lead to an increase in sexual activity. What it does lead to is an increase in safer sexual activity.

The times without birth control are not in the distant past, those times are actually with us on this planet. And to be possibly obsessed with sex isn't strongly related to making babies I think. And I do not think any society on Earth is obsessed with sex, rather with aggression, nationalism, Nazi religion, dumbness, greed to name but a few. And in the European countries the only sort of realm that is obsessed with sex is advertising. And after all there is still vasectomy ;), and that is reversible if you want. ;))

I reckon so. Most of the southern US states are anti birth control. Jesus will keep ur Veee-Ginas clean. They have the highest birth rates. Sex is a powerful force nothing can change it😊

Yes, people would still fuck like crazy and use double G's to sell hamburgers, those things predate the sexual revolution by thousands of years

Yes.. There are plenty societies throughout history that glorified sexuality while never having had access to these things. The idea that contraceptives = promiscuity harkens back to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

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