The funny thing is that condoms basically have no use other than sex (well, I guess you could make water balloons out of them...), while "the pill" can be used for valid medical purposes. Guess which one has the greatest stigma attached?
Basically, girls are held to a different standard, as Vector said constantly. If a guy is sexually promiscuous, then he's a "stud" and we think he's just awesome. If a girl is sexually promiscuous, then she's a "slut" and we think she's terrible. Think about how that relates to things for girls and separately things for boys, concerning sex.... Kinda like how sexual assault prevention is focused towards things "girls can do about it," like never being alone, and always watching your drink, etc. How about talking to guys and saying "don't do bad things to people?" Instead, every college in the US has a "Code Red" week for female students warning about sexual assault that scares the shit out of female students for about a couple weeks when school starts.... This is jokingly known in fraternities as, "the time to never ask a girl out because the school has just scared the hell out of them all that they'll be raped."
It's a massive double standard.... It's also a test case to see how much they can get away with. I always found it funny that many people saying there is no right to privacy in constitution are the same people who want the government to "butt out," of their affairs. It's there and it's implied but never stated, just like the right to vote, which is also implied but never stated. It's a wider pattern of forcing medical procedures, drug testing, and who knows what else on people by law.
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