ext_89867 ([identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lblanchard 2009-02-04 05:33 pm (UTC)

They're good for the latex market, I guess.

Not saying this is representative of all economically disadvantaged women, of course, because it isn't, but...there's a subculture in the inner city neighborhoods here in which the women go in surreptitiously for a depoprovera shot or an IUD because if their boyfriends find out they're using birth control they'll have the crap beaten out of them. Those guys view making babies as a sign of their manliness. Sadly, they don't view taking care of those babies as important.

Thus, these women can't afford to have their men find a packet of pills or see a patch. Forget condoms in these cases.


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