much ado about the pill

So, between McCain's stumbling, uh, um, der, I don't know anything about Viagara and birth control being covered by insurance comment and Bill Douchebag O'Reilly's recent Viagara helps with a condition, the pill helps with a choice comment, I feel the need to say a little something.

A. Women actually like to fuck. I know it's surprising, seeing as though sex should only belong to big, strong manly men. But most women enjoy getting off. Sure, there are asexual beings but for the most part, men and women fuck. And men and women enjoy fucking. Deal with it. My "choice" to lead a happy, healthy life involves sex, as it does for most people. I make a choice as to what I want to do for 8 hours every day for a paycheck. I make a choice as to where I want to live, what kind of people I choose to surround myself with. I make a choice as to who I want to have sex with. All things that contribute to that healthy, happy life we all should be able to lead.

B. The idea that the birth control pill is strictly used to prevent contraception is wildly inaccurate. I've been taking it since I was 14, thanks to bleeding for months at a time and then not bleeding for months at a time and during the ones when I was bleeding, wanting to rip my uterus out from the pain. I've been consistently on the pill ever since, even during the times when I'm not having any sex. If I decided tomorrow to never have sex again, I'd still keep taking the pill because: a. 3-day hardly noticeable periods are fucking awesome, b. it helps my skin, c. I could be sexually assaulted any ol' time and although I wouldn't be able to take the proper precautions to prevent STDs, I'd be relatively certain I at least wouldn't get knocked up.

C. Viagra helps with a medical condition. A medical condition that needs overcoming strictly for the purpose of having sex. Even if it's for procreation purposes, where are all these impotent men gonna stick it when no woman wants to have sex with them because they're afraid of getting pregnant or in pain from any number of gynelogical conditions of which the birth control pill helps to ease the symptoms. Not to mention, I thought the pill partly existed so that men wouldn't have to worry about that icky little pregnancy problem and could go bareback without a second thought? If we can't afford to pay an arm and a leg and decide when and if we want to get knocked up, a lot more men are gonna have to actually take responsibility and slap on a condom. Something tells me Mr. O'Reilly is of the "but it doesn't feel as good...I don't wanna!!" mentality when it comes to condoms.

I don't need to have sex in order to survive; neither does a man. So whether it's a medical condition if you can't get your cock hard or not, you don't actually need to go through life with it at full-mast every day. But since some men would like to be able to get it up with the assistance of a little blue pill and I'd like to not lose every bit of iron in my body every month, how about we just call it a day and the insurance companies give us an equal hand?