I… agree with you. I don’t know how to say it, but to me all your arguments bring support. But not in absolute terms.
What I mean is that I recognized from the start that it would have an effect. But I can’t imagine penetrative sex would be entirely gone. And you referred to pull out, or finishing with non-penetrative sex. That also carries risk of pregnancy. Even pre-sejaculate can lead to pregnancy.
Cars are actually a great example of people not making the wisest choices. In cities, we have the option of building denser, building infrastructure for bikes, and having really convenient and frequent public transit for safer, greener, and healthier cities. Instead, by and large, people prefer sparser cities, with plenty of space to park their car, and streets for their car, not for bikes. They choose the perceived confort and convenience of cars over the possibility of avoiding killing pedestrians, which happens all the time, polluting people around with heavy metals, polluting the atmosphere with green house gas, and causing themselves and their family to have more chance of getting heart problems and other health problems from being inactive.
Women can know of other women dying from childbirth, but think it can’t possibly happen to them. Or let themselves be carried by passion. Or think that if their partner pull early, nothing will happen. Or they will be better at it, this time, than before when they got pregnant. Or invite their partner to cum over their body, thinking it won’t land on their vulva, or it’s no big deal if it happens. Or a ton of other justifications / beliefs leading to not avoiding risks completely.
I’m too sleepy to find the correct words now to continue on this train of thought, but I think you get what I mean. My position is that fear of maternal death would have an effect in such a society, but not enough to completely reduce the number of children down to only those who were fully wanted and planned for. But your arguments did make me reconsider the rate of that effect.
I… agree with you. I don’t know how to say it, but to me all your arguments bring support. But not in absolute terms.
What I mean is that I recognized from the start that it would have an effect. But I can’t imagine penetrative sex would be entirely gone. And you referred to pull out, or finishing with non-penetrative sex. That also carries risk of pregnancy. Even pre-sejaculate can lead to pregnancy.
Cars are actually a great example of people not making the wisest choices. In cities, we have the option of building denser, building infrastructure for bikes, and having really convenient and frequent public transit for safer, greener, and healthier cities. Instead, by and large, people prefer sparser cities, with plenty of space to park their car, and streets for their car, not for bikes. They choose the perceived confort and convenience of cars over the possibility of avoiding killing pedestrians, which happens all the time, polluting people around with heavy metals, polluting the atmosphere with green house gas, and causing themselves and their family to have more chance of getting heart problems and other health problems from being inactive.
Women can know of other women dying from childbirth, but think it can’t possibly happen to them. Or let themselves be carried by passion. Or think that if their partner pull early, nothing will happen. Or they will be better at it, this time, than before when they got pregnant. Or invite their partner to cum over their body, thinking it won’t land on their vulva, or it’s no big deal if it happens. Or a ton of other justifications / beliefs leading to not avoiding risks completely.
I’m too sleepy to find the correct words now to continue on this train of thought, but I think you get what I mean. My position is that fear of maternal death would have an effect in such a society, but not enough to completely reduce the number of children down to only those who were fully wanted and planned for. But your arguments did make me reconsider the rate of that effect.