"Unfortunately, it’s not only the onus of being protected that’s on women, it’s also the stigma attached to having sex. Men can buy condoms without getting a lecture or a problem—but women who go to the pharmacy for birth control are often refused or asked about their marital status. Can you even imagine that happening to a man? And when was the last time you saw conservative groups up in arms about condoms being available in schools? Hell no. Because they couldn’t give a shit about whether guys have sex or not. But allowing women to take control of their reproductive destinies? No way. There have been all sorts of protests just in the last year over birth control pills and patches being made available to young women. So not only is it up to us to make sure we’re protected—we have to jump through all sorts of hoops to make it happen!"
Jessica Valenti, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (via cocknbull)
We should be handing out BC like condoms… Why is it so different/difficult to imagine a world where this happens?
Because women are not supposed to have control. Of sex. Of themselves.
(Source: angrywomenoftumblr)
Rebloged from : tiffanywagers
[Tags] patriarchy sex women birth control condoms
![Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too? Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Romeo: Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake. Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take. Romeo: [They kiss] Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged. Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took? Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.Juliet: [they kiss again] You kiss by the book.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplfncBQEZ1qa2k11o1_500.jpg)
