Culture
Let's Stop Pretending Sex Doesn’t Have Any Consequences
There seems to be a huge elephant in the room when it comes to the abortion debate, one that many claim is entirely irrelevant to the situation or otherwise pretend to be willfully ignorant of.
By Gwen Farrell4 min read
This phenomenon isn’t just observable in this discourse, though. We can also observe it, puzzlingly enough, with friends or on social media when people announce their pregnancies and then follow it up with “We don’t know how this happened!” The reality is, it’s entirely clear to the majority of us how a pregnancy occurs, yet the discussion on sex is largely and intentionally removed from conversations on reproduction. But why are we as a society pretending sex doesn’t have any consequences?