A Brief History of Birth Control

Gym teacher Hank gives us the full story of the past, present, and future of birth control.

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Loretta Lynn "One's On The Way (The Pill)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMzSYy...

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[595o]

stress relief like in Bonobos?

[Hytura]

I'm sorry, but none of these "newer" options are cutting it for me. I'm just going to stick with a goat intestine and be on my merry way, thank you.

[EmeraldElbows]

Hey now! We are nerdfighters and when we disagree, no matter how vehemently, we disagree respectfully and preferably with peer-reviewed sources. This is no place for cyberbullying.

[Assassin4571]

kill yourself

[ScorpioCarly]

We'll use pretty much any teacher. From my experience though, gym teachers in America often also teach a class called Health, and that's mostly the class where you get sex ed.

[Broockle]

That is not how it works though. If everyone on earth had the insane discipline to control their urges and only have sex to get children no body would ever do it. The whole point of making sex feel good is so that people mess up and get children.

If people would control themselves that would actually be a bad thing for man kind. That's how far evolution has thought this through xD

[MrG0TH1ER]

But that is not how it works. For the individual, sex is the goal. Babies are a side effect of sex. Evolution did not use the desire to have baby but the desire to have sex as the mechanism to ensure animal reproduction. There are absolutely no reasons why someone should abstain from having sex just because they don’t want a child given that modern humans can use birth control.

[argonzeit]

I'm only going to reply this once to someone who is replying to me on this video, I do find it funny to see how many people reply to me, but are saying something that does not reflect my comment. I never said you couldn't get in love, or why you shouldn't have sex. Sex is for reproducing, its hard coded in your DNA. My opinion was you shouldn't have a kid if you can't support them. Now, your mind might say sex is pleasurable, but your body is all about the babies. Take it or leave it.

[MrG0TH1ER]

So you can't fall in love if you don’t want children? Surely to say such nonsense you would need to want to have children and/or be sexually frigid and/or be a frustrated forever alone. And you surely lack empathy for others. Not all humans want and are like you.

[LegitimateNinjaness]

Virgin Mary: Abstinence 99.9% Effective.

[Dawud G Delves]

I can imagine one was recreation. Not as to re-create, but as something to do to pass the time, like sport, or reading a book, or relaxing.

[Omar S.]

I thought you were gono talk about the birth defects that are being caused due to some early birth control pills that had some rather horrific side effects to the fetus.