Sugarcunt's Notes
While I tweet and blog at Sugarcunt Writes, some things are too long for twitter and too short for the blog... or too random (like some chat excerpts). So ultimately, they go here.
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Another Betty - and isn’t she mesmerising?
Model: Betty Chantel
Photographer:Lone Star Pin-Up
This post was originally written on January 21, 2011 to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision to legalize abortion in the United States. To honor Roe, and to honor the groups, practitioners, nurses, staff, and volunteers who have dedicated their lives to providing reproductive health care, we’re debunking some common abortion myths.
ABORTION MYTHS:
- Emergency Contraception (EC) is an abortifacient. Despite what Nick Cannon said recently, emergency contraception does not cause an abortion. EC prevents pregnancy, while the abortion pill (mifepristone) terminates an existing pregnancy. Check out NARAL’s great fact sheet for more info.
- Women use abortion as a form of birth control – Actually, 54 percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Birth control methods fail, and inconsistent contraceptive use, as well as life changes, contribute to unplanned pregnancy. There is no research that states that women depend on or use abortion as a method of birth control.
- Abortion causes post-traumatic stress and other mental health disorders. A 2008 report by the APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion concluded, “the best scientific evidence indicates that the relative risk of mental health problems among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy is no greater if they have an elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver the pregnancy.” This is also made clear through the fact that “postabortion traumatic stress syndrome” is not recognized by either the American Psychological Association (APA) or the American Psychiatric Association.
- Women who have abortions will never be mothers. There’s a big misconception out there about who has abortions. Many believe there are two types of women in this world—those who have abortions and those who have children. The fact is 61% of women who have abortions already have one or more children.
- Abortion causes breast cancer. In 1997, the New England Journal of Medicine published the largest-scale study ever on this subject–with 1.5 million participants–which concluded that there is no independent link between abortion and breast cancer.
- Making abortion illegal will stop women from having them. Abortion was prevalent in the United States long before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Because it was an illegal procedure, women who needed abortions had no choice but to obtain them from illegal practitioners. The “back-alley” abortion was dangerous and is listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women in 1930.
- Pro-choice means pro-abortion. People who are pro-choice believe in the right for a woman to choose what happens to her body—whether that be an abortion, adoption, or carrying the pregnancy full-term. Being pro-choice means a lot of things and women and men who are pro-choice believe in choice for many reasons.
- All Planned Parenthood does is abortions. As long as there is a need for abortion services, Planned Parenthood will continue to provide those services for women. We work diligently to decrease the need for abortions by providing access to family planning services, comprehensive sexuality education, programs that promote communication and good decision making skills, and strong advocacy on policy decisions that protects all of the above.
- Women who have abortions can’t get pregnant, or will have a harder time conceiving. Abortions performed in the first trimester pose virtually no long-term risk of such problems as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, congenital malformation, or preterm or low-birth-weight delivery. Most women have abortions in their first trimester.
- Women having abortions are young, irresponsible women who can’t be bothered to take birth control. Women of all ages have abortions for many reasons including financial, ability to provide care, the health of the fetus, the health of the pregnant woman, the lack of a co-parent, and many other legitimate reasons. Women of all reproductive ages have abortions – it has nothing to do with age or responsibility.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Fandom: Homestuck
“She complied, and it was only a few more moments before Jade came, the orgasm bringing everything to a screeching halt, her eyes wide open, her hips bucking up to meet the other girl’s face, a short spray of clean ejaculate misting into the air”
@sugarcunt - relevant
I’m actually kind of wondering why this is on WTFFanfiction…
Does “squirting” automatically equal WTF/weird/etc.?
That’s a bit inane.
(Reminds me of this one person I knew… paraphrased: “I don’t squirt, so obviously whenever anyone else does it, it’s just pee! WHY DON’T PEOPLE RESEARCH THIS?? LIKE DUH.”)
So, awkward question. Is the sex act being described likely to cause female ejaculation? I ask because I only experience that with one very specific sex act, and it’s not the one being described, I dont think. That doesn’t mean that others don’t experience something different. I just am ignorant on this.
@sugarcunt get on Tumblrrrrrr sex questions!!!! psodfiaspodfhapsod (these posts get tweeted)
I have no idea what act’s being described but it sounds like it could be lots of things…edit: oh goddammit. blerg. can’t read when sleepy. yeah. psodhgaspoighaspgdo
You should talk to my bestie (person I was mentioning above) … she’s quite the… urm.. sex extraordinaire? I think for her it involves g-spot stimulation but I could be misremembering.
spdaoifhpsodfihapsodf
Most people with vaginas are generally brought to ejaculation via stimulation of the G-spot… however, for me, personally, it was clitoral stimulation that caused it, up until recently. Now I do the G-spot-and-direct-clitoral-stimulation combo, and it works… sometimes.
I think the “wtf” about this is the idea that female ejaculation is a “short spray that mists into the air.” Lots of people are gushers. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of ANYONE “misting.”
Join Trust Women Week.
From January 20 to 27, join the first-ever “Trust Women Week,” an online mass mobilization for women’s lives and rights. The Trust Women/Silver Ribbon Campaign is the coordinating partner in this unique collaborative campaign, working with MoveOn.org and more than 50 organizations nationwide, to let legislators know that reproductive health, reproductive justice and reproductive rights are at the top of our agenda, and should be at the top of theirs.
In this collaborative national action, your messages as “virtual marchers” will be packaged and delivered directly to members of Congress, governors and state legislators to underscore that Americans trust women to make their own decisions about their bodies and their lives.
Online participants may select up to six tailored messages:
1. “I trust women and I vote;”
2. “Reproductive rights are human rights;”
3. “Keep abortion safe and legal, and make it affordable and accessible;”
4. “Stand up and be counted for reproductive justice;”
5. “We are the 99%. Fix the economy, and stop the attacks on women’s health;”
6. “Contraception Is Prevention.”
Join in this virtual freedom march, and you’ll see your participation on a real-time online map. Your participation is essential to this effort, so thanks for your support!
Click here to join the March!
Trust Women Week overlaps the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and reasserts our firm commitment to reclaiming the future of reproductive decision-making in 2012.
Thanks again for your support.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
“Do I NEED to use the pure wand?” -> Duh.
The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence, facilitated by Katz. There, he posed a question to all of the men in the room: “Men, what things do you do to protect yourself from being raped or sexually assaulted?”
Not one man, including myself, could quickly answer the question. Finally, one man raised his hand and said, “Nothing.” Then Katz asked the women, “What things do you do to protect yourself from being raped or sexually assaulted?” Nearly all of the women in the room raised their hand. One by one, each woman testified:
“I don’t make eye contact with men when I walk down the street,” said one.
“I don’t put my drink down at parties,” said another.
“I use the buddy system when I go to parties.”
“I cross the street when I see a group of guys walking in my direction.”
“I use my keys as a potential weapon.”
The women went on for several minutes, until their side of the blackboard was completely filled with responses. The men’s side of the blackboard was blank. I was stunned. I had never heard a group of women say these things before. I thought about all of the women in my life — including my mother, sister and girlfriend — and realized that I had a lot to learn about gender.
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Sex Workers Need HUMAN RIGHTS, Not Legal Wrongs
*TURN OFF THE BLUE LIGHT, IRELAND POSTER CAMPAIGN*
Always reblog.
This is wonderful.
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justhowlongcanthispartoftheurlbe:
My vote was just decided.
