Contraception Quotes

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Use condoms; it’s wise not to gamble with your children's future.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”
― Hendrik Hertzberg

“The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.”
― Jaclyn Moriarty, The Ghosts of Ashbury High

“Overpopulation is by far the worst kind of pollution.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?”
― Hans Küng

“If the Constitution doesn’t say anything about a woman’s right to abortion, I’m damn sure it doesn’t say anything about the rights of the unborn.”
― Israel Morrow, Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

“Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Homosexuality is good for the environment.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One of our most serious challenges is that we mature sexually way before we do mentally. And what’s worse is that mental maturity is not even guaranteed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The technology exists for a male contraceptive pill. We have the drugs to switch off testosterone and prevent sperm production. These drugs have never gone to market because developers know that men would never take something like that. Men would never agree to switch off their hormones. They would never put up with the side effects such as depression and low libido. And, honestly, why should they put up with it? Why should women?”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Making love instead of war is likely to lead to an even bigger population, which is likely to lead to wars.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We may have to get creative before this is over," he said, his voice turning even deeper, huskier than before. That statement had her gaze snapping back to meet his. "Creative?" she ventured cautiously. "I didn't come prepared for this." She caught his drift and had to be grateful that her sister had provided a solution. Thankfully, they wouldn't have to resort to too much creativity - which 'she' wasn't prepared for.”
― Sharon Swan, Husband in Harmony

“The residents of the the town are attracted by the words and the pictures on the signs. They know full well the perils posed by overpopulation. Many of them have mastered the use of several types of contraceptives. Now they understand the dangers posed by traffic accidents. They know that even though overpopulation is perilous, the living must do their best to have a good time and avoid being killed in traffic accident.”
― Yu Hua, The Past and the Punishments

“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A human is killed by accident way less often than a child is made by mistake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If a woman is asking for birth control, it's because she needs it. The request itself is enough.”
― Aude Mermilliod, Le Chœur des femmes

“There is no way to directly oblige a woman to give birth. All that can be done is to enclose her in situations where motherhood is her only option. Laws or customs impose marriage on her. Anticonception means and abortion are banned. Divorce is forbidden.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Today, the contraceptive sheath is used for seduction. `He seeks to seduce her, she resists, he brings out his condom, she falls into his arms.' She would, in the past, have been seduced by the erection; now, she is seduced by the protection. A step further, and being HIV positive [séropositif] will be seductive in itself (`This product can damage your health' serves almost as an advertising slogan). We have seen on our walls and our buses: `I'm HIV positive -- will you come to the dining hall with me? (say yes!)'; `Im a mongol -- will you come and play with me?`; Sero is beautiful. The direst thing becomes an advertising statement. A new moral order, a new conviviality based on this marvellous legitimacy of difference, even when it is the difference of the negative and the lack of living.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

“Protected sex is, to Mother Nature, sex between a human and a doll.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some grandparents are not even thirty years old.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A condom is a helmet for sex.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Male" contraception is something novel for many people. There are still very few people using these methods, so they receive a lot of attention and a certain amount of approval among activist and feminist circles. The fact that you're seen as this cool guy, just because you're pushing up your family jewels...it says a lot about the state of things, in terms of the contraceptive burden. All we're doing is trying to make things more equal. There's nothing heroic about it...it's just natural.”
― Bobika, Le coeur des Zobs

“See? Nothing changes... The media has spent the past 40 years making announcements about some future "miracle contraception." Articles like that aren't helping to bring about change. We use them to justify just waiting around and doing nothing. It's like: "I swear as soon as there's a pill for guys, I'll be the first to take it!" They make us forget that viable and effective methods already exist! And that if we're even remotely attached to any principles of equity and justice...then it's our responsibility to take part in this movement. Step off of the beaten path, get things moving, and make some headway.”
― Bobika, Le coeur des Zobs

“My preferred method of birth control is homosexuality.”
― Arwa Mahdawi