Now available to 17 year olds, without a prescription

When I heard the news that Plan B is now available to 17 year olds (who are, legally, old enough to consent to sex), I rejoiced.  Then braced myself for the far-right vitirol that was surely to follow.

Sadly, I didn’t brace myself well enough:

What next? Over-the-counter roofies?

Plan B — the drug that allows guys to breathe a sigh of relief the morning after using some chick for selfish pleasure — will now be available to 17-year-olds without a prescription.

Who cares that she’s not even old enough to buy a pack of cigarettes legally? Get her drunk on wine coolers, get what you want, then the next morning, take her to CVS to get Plan B and make sure there’s no chance the slut will show up in a few months talking child support payments and DNA tests.

So guys, if you screw a 17-year-old and “forget” to use a condom, remember: Nothing says “thanks a lot, you cheap whore” like the gift of Plan B!

That would be uber conservative Robert Stacy McCain.  Whom I can only assume was unable to catch that rant’s blatant look at his psyche (it scares me that he didn’t pick up on that).  And to whom I can only say: WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?

The mind boggles. Does he only know morally pure, virginal women with a sexual scorecard of 0?  Women whose uteruses (uteri?) are perfectly untouched until their wedding night, and then are busy making babies for the rest of their lives?

17 year old girls, in most states, have reached the age of consent.  That means that the law has judged them legally able to make decisions involving their own sexuality as they see fit.  And it’s really not a decision a guy can trick them into – 17 year old girls are savvier than that.  And, in this post-Sex & The City age, are just as likely to be sexual aggressors.  Conservatives can bury their heads in the sand all they want, but the reality is that teenage girls know what multiple orgasms are (if only from the pages of their mother’s Cosmo) and are damn curious.

Which leads me to this next point … When rightfully called out for his pathology by other blogs, this is McCain’s scathing defense:

In general, among heterosexual singles, men and women approach the mating ritual with different objectives. The fact that more women nowadays play the role of sexual aggressors cannot be denied, but is an understandable response to decades of egalitarian dogma pumped into the culture. Despite this shift, it is nevertheless still true that women generally date in search of a long-term committed relationship, while men (especially successful, attractive men) are more generally content to “play the field.”

It is only the feminist ideologue — with her androgynous insistence that all things must be equal — who considers it “empowering” for women to imitate male behavior in the dating game. Men and women are different, and this “pro-sex feminist” strategy of empowerment through promiscuity ultimately disadvantages all women.

Seriously, the way the man thinks is scary and disturbing.  Yes, men and women have different brains.  But how that translates into a woman “imitating” male behavior is beyond me.  In fact, it doesn’t even mesh with evolution and biology.

There a whole theory that women with high levels of oestradiol, a form of oestrogen, are promiscuous and change partners more quickly:

“Because it’s difficult to obtain a partner who is a good provider and also has good genes, women often have to trade off between having a long-term mate who provides continual material resources and more physically attractive, short-term sexual partners with good genetic resources.

“However, highly attractive women demand greater amounts of both types of resources in a male partner, in addition to good parenting and partner skills. Thus, physically attractive women may not only have more alternatives but also high standards that are difficult to satisfy.

“Accordingly, they may have fewer reasons to be committed to any particular partner if higher quality potential mates are available.”

If anything, women are hardwired to be more promiscuous:

At the very base of this principle is the understanding of a woman’s psychological need for a variety of sex partner’s. Psychologically, women are hardwired differently than men. A woman has a dual sex drive. The first is centered on finding a mate for life to help support her and her offspring. This is why (and when) love is such an important part of a women’s sexual desire. The second is a desire to obtain a variety of the best genetic material to produce the best children.

Look, we live in an era where the face of American-bred torture was not a burly man, but a woman, grinning for a camera beside a man wearing a mask and panties.  More and more female teachers are charged with molesting their male students.

Even more scary, we may be on the cusp of watching the after math of a horrendous crime, the murder of 7-year-old Sandra Cantu, change our perceptions of female sexuality and pathology: her accused attacker, a woman, may also be a serial child rapist.

So, no, I don’t buy the idea that men and women have fundamentally different sexual urges.  Unfortunately, recent news has proven that women have the same capacity as men to be horrible human beings.

Tags: Plan B

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