Society and Pregnancy -

Dixanadu · #31 08-20-2011, 10:59 AM

As much as I enjoy it, I think we should talk about pregnancy in society instead of my impossible ambitions as de facto ruler of Earth and Luna.

Nepsotic · #32 08-20-2011, 11:03 AM

People go... Big?

Dixanadu · #33 08-20-2011, 11:05 AM

Was anyone subjected to ludicrous tales about pregnancy when they were younger?

Anything along the lines of storks dropping babies off?

Nepsotic · #34 08-20-2011, 11:17 AM

Erm... I know a story about a pregnant woman walking along in asda, and her baby just fell out

STM · #35 08-20-2011, 11:25 AM

My parents just told me I was born from my Mum's stomach...it's not a lie either, I was a caesarian child.

Nepsotic · #36 08-20-2011, 11:27 AM

Still a fanny-like hole though

JennyGenesis · #37 08-20-2011, 11:29 AM

I don't actually ever recall asking my mum where babies came from.

Wings of Fire · #38 08-20-2011, 11:35 AM

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My parents just told me I was born from my Mum's stomach...it's not a lie either, I was a caesarian child.

Oh snap!

Nepsotic · #39 08-20-2011, 11:40 AM

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I don't actually ever recall asking my mum where babies came from.

I found out by accidently finding my brothers porn when i was little, and watching south park... Its a veryy educational show!

Ridg3 · #40 08-20-2011, 01:00 PM

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Still a fanny-like hole though

You're a strange one.

Nepsotic · #41 08-20-2011, 01:18 PM

Im as strange as freshly cut grass

Ridg3 · #42 08-20-2011, 01:44 PM

Irritating as well.

STM · #43 08-20-2011, 05:00 PM

Freshly cut grass irritates my skin to no fucking end so there's a correlation right there.

Strike Witch · #44 08-20-2011, 05:41 PM

Clearly, we should just get rid of men.

Like that species of lizards that get pregnant just by dry-humping.

***Nate*** · #45 08-20-2011, 06:14 PM

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Well they (NASA) want to put a colony on Mars by 2050 but it's a one way trip.

Not any more. That was George W. Bush's goal, but it was thrown out by the current administration.

I recently met a guy who had previously worked for NASA and he suggested that that was Bush's plan all along. He said that if they simply shut down NASA, there'd be a public outcry, but if you give them an impossible task and allocate all the resources of the organisation specifically to that task, it will be easier to take those resources away once everyone realises it was a mistake.

Tadimo · #46 08-20-2011, 07:21 PM

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Not any more. That was George W. Bush's goal, but it was thrown out by the current administration.

I recently met a guy who had previously worked for NASA and he suggested that that was Bush's plan all along. He said that if they simply shut down NASA, there'd be a public outcry, but if you give them an impossible task and allocate all the resources of the organisation specifically to that task, it will be easier to take those resources away once everyone realises it was a mistake.

Why work towards becoming a spacefaring race and exploring the universe when that money can be spent on flinging crap at each other like apes? (missiles, etc)

DarkHoodness · #47 08-20-2011, 07:29 PM

'cause killing each other is more important than securing our future as a species. Don'tcha just love human nature?

Tadimo · #48 08-20-2011, 09:15 PM

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'cause killing each other is more important than securing our future as a species. Don'tcha just love human nature?

Indeed, also on the subject of teenage pregnancy it wasn't much of an issue at the school I went to although I did go to a private one.

Perhaps teenage pregnancies could be curbed by encouraging parents to actually talk to their teens about that stuff, removing child payments from the government and making contraception/abortions cheaper?

moxco · #49 08-20-2011, 09:31 PM

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My parents just told me I was born from my Mum's stomach...it's not a lie either, I was a caesarian child.

It's not a lie that you were conceived in the stomach? How you, or the sperm for that matter, survived the hydrochloric acid is beyond me.

STM · #50 08-20-2011, 11:35 PM

Well you see it really does explain my physical appearance. But I guess the uterus or wherever it is babies are made is pretty near the stomach I mean in the tummy.

T-nex · #51 08-21-2011, 04:08 AM

We learned at an early age about pregnancy at school. Sex education was pretty thorough. They had animations with these colored people who showed how periods went and stuff.

Sex ed did put me off dick for a long while though(They used these really horrible icky photos of bushy wrinkly dicks in bad quality).... It made them look very bad and I remember thinking: Im never putting one of those things inside of me.

So yea. Sex ed nearly turned me lesbo

Anyway i do feel that girls are getting a bit too excited over babies ._. ... Or at least it seems that way now that they are more prominent on TV and stuff.

And I suppose thats a downwards spiral cos things that gain publicity(whether good or bad) tend to make more people aware of it and thus follow the trend.

It was the same discussion here in denmark too about cutting. People were debating whether more people started cutting cos of them hearing about it or some other reasons.

In the end, early pregnancy is bad IMO, cos it sometimes means the girls drop out of school, and no education leads to problems

JennyGenesis · #52 08-21-2011, 07:46 AM

I remember watching a video tape for my sex ed...

Yeah, the guys and girls in it are awful, big bush here, gross naked person there...

Ridg3 · #53 08-21-2011, 07:56 AM

Well, they kinda do have to have some realistic features on it for Sex ed. It isn't as if they're going to show you a gorgeous blond with a nicely trimmed/shaved vagina and and hunky, ripped man with a huge ass penis.

They need to show you what it's really like, how disgusting sex actually is and how horrible and ugly real life pee-pee parts are.

***Alcar*** · #54 08-21-2011, 08:16 AM

Speak for yourself.

Alcar...

Dixanadu · #55 08-21-2011, 08:25 AM

When I was in fourth year in secondary school, the year below me were shown a sex ed video.

I was jealous, I wanted to see sex.

STM · #56 08-21-2011, 11:49 AM

I was ill the day we got shown a video but everyone said it was nasty.

Laser · #57 08-21-2011, 11:53 AM

We were shown sex education twice in our school life. Aged 11 and 12. Now I know of 10 girls who are pregnant all before their 18th birthday and 3 before their 19th.

GREAT SCHOOLING RIGHT THERE!

Now I'm not against teen pregnancey in theory. But seeing some extremely talented people get preggers and waste their education and be forced to possibly never fulfil their potential to the utmost. It just makes me sad.

JennyGenesis · #58 08-21-2011, 03:14 PM

Why are you not against teen pregnancy?

I think it's far too young to be having a child.

Wings of Fire · #59 08-21-2011, 05:26 PM

How do you be against teen pregnancy?

Sekto Springs · #60 08-21-2011, 07:36 PM

Hand out condoms to every teenager you meet at your own expense, regardless of how well you know them.