Comments on: Ask Urban Scout #2: Apocalyptic Safe Sex!?!

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:06:33 +0000

Fertility awareness work 100% of the time with complete accuracy IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THE SIGNS. People say ” i got pregnant while using fertility awareness methods…” and i say “were you aware that you were fertile when you got pregnant”? they say no. If the weatherman says that it’s supposed to be sunny but you walk outside and get soaked, do you blame the weatherman or LOOK OUT THE WINDOW before you step outside?
Props dude, im a student too. leaving society in the spring, but only for 14 months.

By: Moonfairee

Moonfairee — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:07:29 +0000

I can’t believe no one mentioned what seemed obvious to me! If you don’t want kids, why not get tied/snipped? Then you never have to even worry about it (except in rare exceptions . . . better the both of you get the procedure, just in case!)

I mean, if we are talking about society crumbling and everything going to shit, isn’t one of the biggest causes for this over-population? If more people got tied/snipped now, the better shape the planet would be in to begin with.

And you can still be in tune with your bodies’ cycles without drinking abortifacients that, though they probably won’t kill you, can make you incredibly sick if taken in large doses, or over a long enough period of time. Track the problem to its source! Then the anti-abortinists will have to get their own damn lives instead of bothering us!

By: msaraann

msaraann — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:16:00 +0000

If my experience is any indication, a woman reading a clinical description of fertility awareness can get the impression that practicing it is some complex and perhaps messy process. However, after paying attention to my body in this way for about five years now, I can hardly believe I lived so long without noticing my body’s obvious changes. I can’t even imagine getting pregnant accidentally now, because it’s just too obvious what my body is doing, and this is without following the formal procedures (daily temp, cervical fluid checks, etc.)

By: Urban Scout

Urban Scout — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:27:30 +0000

Too true Andrew. Thanks for you comment.

By: Andrew Jensen

Andrew Jensen — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:05:57 +0000

Condoms are still a distinct possibility, as they used to be made out of the intestines of sheep. I imagine any other similarly sized animal would provide usable sausage packing material.

Also, children ARE a potentially useful for survival, and not in the “I eat them” kind of way (incidentally, putting aside the moral questions on what I take to be a joke, you will NOT get the number of calories out of the infant that you put into it gestating and lactating). Once raised past a certain point, they provide the most important survival resource - tribe. So kids are an investment in the future. I wouldn’t get to hung up on having the occasional child post-apocalypse. There may be too many of us now, but we do still need SOME reproduction.

Take it from a “surprised” parent. There’s never a convienent time to have kids, but most of the time, it’s not to hard to make it work.

By: rix

rix — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:08:03 +0000

We also have an article at the REWILD.info Field Guide called "Partner-Based Birth Control" that discusses alternative methods of birth control.