What Do Young Men Know About Birth Control?

[red-ajah.livejournal.com]

I hope this is ok - I found an interesting article on RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check which has a video asking men in the DC area what they know about female birth control. The article seeks to highlight some of the flaws in the reproductive health that is taught (and I wholeheartedly agree). The article is here and the video from the article below.

My fav part: With some sexuality education programs still separating classes by gender, limiting conversations about birth control and contraception (and the difference between the two), and with education focusing just on male condom use among men, are we really surprised that pregnancy prevention efforts are not working as well as they could? I’d be interested in knowing if the men interviewed could discuss how to properly use a male condom, demonstrate how to do that, and/or discuss the difference between the male condom and the female condom and how they are used.

Comments

[yvettel.livejournal.com]

Frightening. And now, I am going to try not to humiliate all the BFs friends because I am going to ask them the same damned things.

I find it amazing the numbers of men and women that have no idea how or why birth control works.

And for the guys in the video.. its a VAGINA! not "lady business" or any other term you used incorrectly.

[lucymalfoy.livejournal.com]

And for the guys in the video.. its a VAGINA! not "lady business" or any other term you used incorrectly.

This! I feel like a bunch of them were trying to use "politically correct" terms for female anatomy when there's nothing wrong with calling it what it's actually called.

[red-ajah.livejournal.com]

Don't you know "vagina" is a dirty word ~_~
Our culture still have a long way to go. You can show it everywhere but we can't say it.

[acetank.livejournal.com]

Actually...okay, too easy.

[ripcurled.livejournal.com]

What do think you will accomplish by humiliating people? Humiliating people does not help your cause.

[archangelbeth]

She did say she was going to try not to humiliate them. It can be a tricky thing, to try to figure out where people are ignorant, and enlighten them, without them getting very touchy about it.

I will not digress about mansplaining, but I suspect that there are similar or shared roots in the potential reactions when such topics come up.

[ripcurled.livejournal.com]

I read it wrong sorry.