I wonder too, if contraception has helped change people’s behavior, and attitudes, about sex.
Young people today have grown up in a time in which it’s considered ok to have sex outside marriage, any number of partners, any gender of partners. It’s actually cool to be gay or have experimented with it among some.
Contraception plays into that, because while some people crossed the line in the old days, they knew that there were certain risks they were taking. Probably some people thought twice in the old days, so that fewer people crossed that line.
Nowadays, people talk openly about their birth control methods, as if it’s a given that of course they have sex with their boyfriends. And as we see with the recent debates about birth control in health plans, many today see access to birth control as some unalienable right.
Heck, if you even ask the question, about why a young healthy unmarried college girl needs to be on the pill in the first place, you get flamed badly, even on a conservative leaning site such as this one.
Contraceptive sex activity is fundamentally no different from homosexual activity. The only advantage heterosexuals have is that their behavior is easier to modify.
This truth has to be delivered with compassion... Or Western Civilization drives itself over a demographic cliff.