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Making a video about female and male condoms makes me think about the big contraception picture. It makes me want to go out on a limb and ask crazy questions about birth control in general. Well, really, there's only one question. Why is it that almost all forms of birth control are things that women have to take, things that women have to put in or do to their bodies? Sure, men can 1. wear male condoms or 2. have vasectomies. But for women the options are endless! Pills, rings, sponges, film, foam, IUD, tubal ligation, diaprhrams, and female condoms. Women don't even have equal political representation in the federal or state governments, which creates the policies that regulate the availability of health knowledge and contraception. It isn't that I'm not grateful for the science and research that led to the creation of hormonal birth control or any of the other methods for that matter. It's just that the science points to the greater division of labor in the world: it's the job of women to worry about reproduction and children. And so I guess the scientific research followed the direction of society. I wish that either society or science would change, and work on making men feel equally invested in contraception.
cross posted at typical leigh
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