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The grass-roots anti-contraceptive campaign to 'bring sexy back'
Read it here at Jezebel:What happens when a group of pro-abstinence college kids who are not untalented at making graphics but could use some advice when it comes to slogans (um, we all know JT brought sexy back in 2006) reject their parents' world of "sky-high rates of divorce, abortion, and STDs; a world bored with sex and bored with romance" in search of "sex free from fear, love free from use, and a world of people who love and respect their own bodies"? You get a campaign in support of bareback — and therefore wholesome — fucking.
We at Jezebel also "want women and men to be respected and loved for who they are, to the very depths of their being." But we have to disagree with the 1flesh crew when they say they think they've "narrowed all the wackness down to its primary cause: The widespread use of artificial contraception." You hear that? Every time you tear open a condom wrapper, sexy takes two steps backwards.
"So contraception isn't quite as awesome as the world makes it out to be," the site declares. "What now?" A litany of arguments against contraception and for "100% organic" sex follow (sample brilliant dissertation: "sure, getting pregnant and raising a kid may very well be, to some, inconvenient, expensive, hard, and maddening at times, but it's a hell of a lot better than being dead"
, complete with Pinterest-Pinnable images, like a condom standing in for the "O" in "LOL." It's all very wannabe subversive and "now," like a world in which Rick Santorum knows how to use Instagram.
Are the founders' attempts at snarky propaganda just plain pitiful (like the image at right, taken from their website, as is the one further below), or are they dangerous, too? The site is clearly geared towards a younger crowd, and it's rife with misinformation that we could pick apart for hours if we didn't have better things to do with our time, like donate to Planned Parenthood. Some quick examples: 1flesh argues that condoms ruin sex by making it feel shittier (cool story bro, I think my high school boyfriend told me that one already) and because they're toooottally ineffective in fighting against HIV and other STDs, a statement so destructive that even the Vatican has admitted that contraceptives do occasionally have something to do with safe sex. The site also claims that birth control doesn't reduce the rate of unplanned pregnancies, an argument a Patheos blogger eviscerates well:
[div class="excerpt" style="border:solid 1px #000000; background:#6D7B8D;text-align:center"]This one falls somewhere between outright false and outrageously misleading. It is a kernel of truth buried under a pile of BS. 1Flesh cites a CDC statement that 49% of pregnancies in the US were unintended. They then crow that this is despite the "near universal use of contraception." Unhelpfully for them, the CDC statement they link to directly contradicts this. In fact, unintended pregnancy is higher in those populations least likely to use contraception, namely the very young and the poor. The CDC states that these stats can be improved by both expanding access to contraception and increasing consistent and correct usage amongst the sexually active. I guess 1Flesh would have its readers believe that the CDC is a solid, unquestionable source for one paragraph, but a biased, unreliable source for the next.
We at Jezebel also "want women and men to be respected and loved for who they are, to the very depths of their being." But we have to disagree with the 1flesh crew when they say they think they've "narrowed all the wackness down to its primary cause: The widespread use of artificial contraception." You hear that? Every time you tear open a condom wrapper, sexy takes two steps backwards.
"So contraception isn't quite as awesome as the world makes it out to be," the site declares. "What now?" A litany of arguments against contraception and for "100% organic" sex follow (sample brilliant dissertation: "sure, getting pregnant and raising a kid may very well be, to some, inconvenient, expensive, hard, and maddening at times, but it's a hell of a lot better than being dead"
, complete with Pinterest-Pinnable images, like a condom standing in for the "O" in "LOL." It's all very wannabe subversive and "now," like a world in which Rick Santorum knows how to use Instagram.
Are the founders' attempts at snarky propaganda just plain pitiful (like the image at right, taken from their website, as is the one further below), or are they dangerous, too? The site is clearly geared towards a younger crowd, and it's rife with misinformation that we could pick apart for hours if we didn't have better things to do with our time, like donate to Planned Parenthood. Some quick examples: 1flesh argues that condoms ruin sex by making it feel shittier (cool story bro, I think my high school boyfriend told me that one already) and because they're toooottally ineffective in fighting against HIV and other STDs, a statement so destructive that even the Vatican has admitted that contraceptives do occasionally have something to do with safe sex. The site also claims that birth control doesn't reduce the rate of unplanned pregnancies, an argument a Patheos blogger eviscerates well:
[div class="excerpt" style="border:solid 1px #000000; background:#6D7B8D;text-align:center"]This one falls somewhere between outright false and outrageously misleading. It is a kernel of truth buried under a pile of BS. 1Flesh cites a CDC statement that 49% of pregnancies in the US were unintended. They then crow that this is despite the "near universal use of contraception." Unhelpfully for them, the CDC statement they link to directly contradicts this. In fact, unintended pregnancy is higher in those populations least likely to use contraception, namely the very young and the poor. The CDC states that these stats can be improved by both expanding access to contraception and increasing consistent and correct usage amongst the sexually active. I guess 1Flesh would have its readers believe that the CDC is a solid, unquestionable source for one paragraph, but a biased, unreliable source for the next.
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Is there no truth in advertising law that could be applied to campaigns like this? This is dangerous shit FCOL.
UGH!
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Please, please tell me these 1flesh people aren't serious.
It's sad that they probably have miseducated a bunch of young people with this crap.