Posted on 05/11/2010 12:48:54 AM PDT by Stoat
Raquel Welch has blamed the Pill for the decline of the institution of marriage.
The Hollywood actress said the widespread use of oral contraceptives had led to a breakdown in sexual morality and fuelled the growth of rampant promiscuity among the young.
Miss Welch, 69, said the situation has grown so grave that 'these days nobody seems able to keep it in their pants or honour a commitment'
While she argued that it carried some benefits, she said the enduring legacy of the Pill has been social anarchy.
Miss Welch has been a sex symbol since she sprang to international fame for her role in the 1966 film One Million Years BC - and was voted by readers of Playboy magazine as 'the most desired female of the 1970s'.
But in an article to mark the introduction of the Pill to the U.S. market 50 years ago, she distanced herself from the fruits of the sexual revolution of which she was a part. 'The growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values,' she said in an article for television channel CNN entitled 'It's SexO'Clock in America'. A positive consequence of the Pill was it had 'made it easier for a woman to choose to delay having children until after she established herself in a career', she said. Miss Welch, who has three failed marriages behind her, added that a 'significant and enduring' effect on women was the idea that they could have sex without any consequences - with the result that fewer today saw marriage as a 'viable option'.
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Sex symbol: Raquel Welch now aged 69, was voted by readers of Playboy magazine as 'the most desired female of the 1970s'. But she warns that the Pill has created social anarchy Cave woman: Welch in the 1966 film One Million Years BC which earned her international fame
You don’t fool me for a Second!
You just wanted an excuse to post some ‘Eye-Candy’! 8-)
She’s right.
If you want traditional sex rules and marriage to return, then invent a pill for men.
Once men can have all the sex they want with no risk of pregnancy, then females will quickly go back to their old ways of guarding the goods and making you barter, and negotiate, and work for it.
Men would love an easy, invisible, birth control method, it would make us bulletproof and untouchable.
The last thing that Western Civilization needs is more ways to NOT produce children. We’re about to cede the planet to the mongrel hordes.
STRAIGHT ON !
She is hitting a nerve!
The pill is a symptom,a consequence,but it strongly boosted the liberal relativist trend.
When the pill is given to teenagers...one can understand the mess and ....the big business
You don’t fool me for a Second!
You just wanted an excuse to post some ‘Eye-Candy’! 8-)
Who, ME????
"hurt and insulted expression on furry stoat face"
((((wink))))
I only know that if I 'hadn't' posted the photos in a thread that has a title with the name 'Raquel Welch' in it, I would get twenty posts here lecturing me about 'the rules' and how 'the thread no good without pictures'.
It's a matter of choosing between having the pictures or having twenty repetitive posts demanding them. I chose to have the photos :-)
In addition to the pill, there was also:
Easy peasy no-fault divorce.
Women’s economic independence (hurtling towards women’s economic advantage if the college enrollment ratio is any indication).
Rigged feminist-inspired laws that have caused a disincentivizing of marriage for men and an incentivizing of divorce for women.
One of my favorite quotes was from quarterback Don Meredith on his frustrating relationship with the rigid head coach Tom Landry:
“If he was married to Racquel Welch, he’d expect her to cook.”
Okay .. I’ll accept that excuse! “wink”..”wink” lol
Particularly when women can cash in their chips and walk away from the table with most of the winnings.
Raquel has it right.
The pill didn’t ruin marriage for Raquel, she’s had four husbands.
Polygamy, or how to pee in yer own gene pool!
Yep. I’m not Catholic, but IIRC the pope at that time issued a detailed encyclical predicting exactly what Raquel is saying.
He was scoffed at.
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