Would you like to get pregnant? – m4w – 44 (Seattle )

Here’s another frightening ad from the beloved CL:

I have very powerful sperm…whenever it gets close to an egg it seems to result in a pregnancy. My wife tends to give me oral as much as possible because she knows if I go for the vagina we are likely to have a new one on the way, lol.

So I was thinking this might be a real positive for a woman who is dying to get pregnant but is unable with her current partner. I know that fertility treatments can be prohibitively expensive. I am Caucasian, about 6′2 and healthy. No genetic diseases. College educated.

You will have to assume complete financial responsibility, as I already have a family I am responsible to raise. Please assure me with your first email that you understand this. And let’s try to make this happen tonight before you worry too much about it and chicken out again.

Pregnancy is the new black, apparently

Disclaimer: This is a social commentary piece complete with humor, sarcasm and personal opinion all fused into one. Please don’t send me a million comments about my insensitivity or my anti-pregnancy antics etc., as that may not actually be the case.

Serial Surrogates, Orgasmic Labor, Home Birth and Late-stage Breastfeeding…that’s the summary of last Friday’s 20/20 special on ABC. I was stuck on the couch with a head cold and since we only get what the bunny ears pick up, I found myself watching in horror as the 20/20 news anchors told the stories of a bunch of pregnant wackos women.

What initially grabbed my attention was the segment on orgasmic birth. Not because I’m interested in having one (I’m not interested in getting pregnant, period.), but because I’ve mentioned it on this blog before. When I first posted about orgasmic birth, as my blog simply states, I didn’t know how to react. And in watching the 20/20 coverage of the birthing technique, I still don’t.

Actually, that’s not true. I do know how to react to the idea of orgasming while popping one out, or at least how I did react to the idea upon second analysis: EWW! Birthing a child i.e. ripping apart reproductive organs while simultaneously bringing a human into the world, is not sexy. It’s not hot. It’s not erotic. It’s not something I want to associate with the sex I had to get to that point. The sex was hot. The sex was erotic. NOT the aftermath err afterbirth. Gross!

During the hour program I probably spent 20 minutes with my jaw dropped and 20 minutes with shutters of disgust running up and down my spine. As if the orgasmic birth ideas weren’t enough to turn me off ofthe program all together, they had to throw in a segment about breastfeeding.

I watched video of a 9-year-old girl sucking from her mother’s tit. I don’t care how much love is in the family, or how much the act is one of nurturing compassion. It’s disturbing. And I can’t help but think that late-stage brestfeeding will inevitably have repercussions on the child later in life. If breast milk is all you can provide your child then by all means,  go right ahead. But if you live in the developed world where resources are available, do you really think it’s necessary?

One last thought before I try to block out the program all together:

Why is 20/20 running an hour-long program about the joys of pregnancy?

Don’t they realize teen pregnancies are on the rise in the U.S. thanks to abstinency-only education programs failing to follow through on their missions? It’s not smart to promote pregnancy as this wonderful, light-hearted right people have. It’s not a right, it’s a luxury. It’s a huge deal to bring a person into the world. It’s not all orgasms and glow. It’s expensive, it uses resources and it’s a responsibility not to be taken lightly.

So 20/20, when are you going to do a show about contraception, responsible family planning and childless adulthood because that’s my demographic.

Does half a bottle of Jameson count as “light drinking”?

According to the BBC:

Women who drink a small amount of alcohol while pregnant do not increase their child’s risk of behavioural problems, a study has suggested.

The University College London team classed “light” drinking as up to two drinks a week throughout pregnancy.

What I want to know is…

Will the U.S. birth rate go up or down in response to the recession?

On the one hand, getting freaky is a nice distraction from the current state of the world. On the other hand, I can’t afford to go out, get smashed and hook up.

I wonder if the rest of the fertile world has the same questions and predicaments?

Pregnant and cute? Please check me out……… – m4w – 31 (Seattle Area)

Hi,

Thanks for checking out my post. I’m single, professional, attractive, std free and in shape – 5ft 9in tall and 175lbs. I live in North Seattle. I’m looking for a cute pregnant girl that wants to get together on a regular basis. Does not have to be just sexual. Dinner, movies, shopping, weekend get aways etc. I’m not a creep, just have always been attracted to pregnant women and all that comes with it. Let me know and I’ll send a pic if you’re interested. Thanks, and no games here.

Oh Craig’s list…

Seattle is single, childless, more educated and lacks young people

From Crosscut:

The magic number is 2.08. This is the average number of persons per Seattle household in 2006, according to the American Community Survey. This is amazing and extreme! Our closest rivals among big cities are Portland and San Francisco at 2.24, and the national average is 2.61. Why is it so low?

A related statistic is the share of households that are families with children; the Seattle share is 19 percent, San Francisco 18 (lowest in the country), and Portland 24. (The U.S. average is 31 percent share of families with children.) Conversely, the share of non-family households (singles, unmarried partners) is 55 percent (33 for the U.S.). Seattle is only slightly behind the winner, San Francisco, in the share of adults never married (51 percent to 52 percent, 30 for the U.S.). Lastly, the proportion of the population under 15 is 13 percent in Seattle and San Francisco, 18 percent in Portland, and 20 percent nationally. Continue reading article here.

Yay for childless women!

This just in from the NYT:

Women are waiting longer to have children, and more women than ever are choosing not to have children at all, according to a new Census Bureau report.

Twenty percent of women ages 40 to 44 have no children, double the level of 30 years ago, the report said; and women in that age bracket who do have children have fewer than ever – an average of 1.9 children, compared with the median of 3.1 children in 1976.

orgasmic birth

I don’t even know how to react to this.

Obese pregnant moms = obese kids

From SLOG:

But the results of several studies suggest that the very fact of a woman being obese during pregnancy may predispose her children to obesity. For example, one study found that children born to women who have lost weight after radical anti-obesity surgery are less likely to be obese than siblings born before their mother lost weight. Another study looked at women who gained weight between pregnancies; the results showed that babies born after their mothers put on weight tended to be heavier at birth than siblings born beforehand. Since the mother’s genes haven’t changed, the “fat” environment seems likely to be responsible for the effect.

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If this is right, it raises the alarming possibility that the obesity epidemic has a built-in snowball effect. If children born to obese mothers are, owing to the environment in the womb, predisposed to obesity, they may find staying thin especially hard. Reversing the epidemic may thus rest on helping women to lose weight before they conceive and helping them to eat a balanced, non-junk-food diet while they are pregnant. The well-being of the next generation may depend on it.

Studies Show Kids May Not Be ‘Bundles of Joy’

This just in from The Bryant Park Project:

The cliché refers to newborn children as “bundles of joy,” but recent research indicates that bundles of anxiety, or even bundles of depression, might be more accurate.

Sociologists are discovering that children may not make parents happier and that childless adults, contrary to popular stereotypes, may often be more contented than people with kids.

Read the rest of the article here.