Baby boom: All because of a faulty female anatomy?
29 August 2008
There is no denying that everyone loves to make love, but everyone does not necessarily love to make babies. Simply put, babies are the products of love-making to some as much as they are the by-products of love-making to others. The belief that a community or a society wanting in recreational amenities causes baby boom or population explosion holds water still. Thanks to medical advancements, readily available precautionary measures may vitiate this belief and may in time not long from now make this belief invalid.
But the availability of the precautionary measures is one thing, the use of the precautionary measures is quite another. What is the crux of the matter then? Must we go for a palliative measure or a long-term, terminal solution? With all due respect to womankind, the crux of the matter is the faulty design of the female anatomy; mind you, not conspicuously external!
Would any gentleman care to pause and imagine how much more conveniently exciting and exhilarating it would be if, and only if cervix did not lead to vagina; in other words if there was another conduit with no connection to the womb? A bizarre imagination, a crazy thought, yet thought-provoking, is it not? Is it not time that we revitalized the old Bhutanese maxim-always carry a knife and a cup as it is uncertain if you will encounter a confrontation or alcohol.
This maxim, which is as true and relevant today as it was in bygone days, may be expanded to keep pace with present day reality and rephrased: always carry a knife, a cup and a condom as it is uncertain if you will encounter a confrontation, alcohol or sex. If there is likelihood of encountering a confrontation or alcohol in rural Bhutan, there is as much likelihood of meeting a girl in urban Bhutan. Simply and frankly put, sex is anywhere, with anyone and at any time. Such is the omnipotence of sex.
Can anyone deny outright the indispensability of a condom? It is a known fact that many men as well as women have remarked and likened sex with condom to eating a lollipop with the wrapper on. It is irrefutable that at least a condom in one’s pocket or wallet will come in as handy as a cup or a knife. Is it Bhutanese moral decadence?
Are we the inhabitants of a decadent society? I and like-minded men and women, for one, are of the opinion that we are certainly not in a decadent society. Because of the way we and particularly today’s youngsters behave and dress up, a cursory and offhand examination will undoubtedly make us believe that we are in such a society. It is only a tautology that today’s youth, especially the species of the fairer sex, are infamously clad in provocatively and invitingly skimpy and abbreviated dresses that they stick out like a sore thumb.
People argue that globalization is inevitable and here. It is. And it is in this context that a faulty design of the female anatomy and the urgency and dire necessity of a condom at all times assume even more critical importance. We are sexually active and the environment around us is sexually conducive.
Many bastards are born. Occasional discovery of bastards in drains and backyards, dead and discarded or discarded and dead, is not unheard-of. Children born out of wedlock could only be a taboo in the past. Today people fight lawsuits and undergo DNA tests to establish paternity and determine maintenance. In the flower of youth, we experiment with sex, and teenage pregnancy. Unwanted pregnancy is sadly on the rise. This is the product or rather by-product of one-night stands and casual encounters. Sadly this is not uncommon. Blame the faulty design of the female anatomy?
Or blame the parties in the sexual conduct for not being in possession of and making use of condoms? Food for thought! Ask any hawker in Thimphu or a roadside worker, for that matter. She will come out with a pat response and lament: “I’ve five schoolchildren.
I’m a divorcee. I’ve to feed them. I’ve to clothe and educate them. And I’ve to save myself from being prematurely terminated by my landlord. What I earn is peanuts, and I’ve no other source of income. This is how I sustain myself, my five young yawning, hungry and thirsty mouths and prepare them to sustain themselves later. Mine is a hand-to-mouth existence.” This is only a random sample but a representative sample of many contemporary dwellers in urban as well as rural areas. An unhappy sample! Children are a liability, not an asset, for no fault of theirs. Can’t any reader think hard and argue unopposed how this biological, economic and therefore social disaster could have been averted if and only if the vagina did not lead to the cervix? Condom may be an option but how long and when.
It may be construed as a scandal or controversial to say that it is highly likely that not every child that a happily married couple gives birth to is entirely and wholly welcome, at least when it is first discovered that it has been conceived. It is a coital misfire. Not all pregnancies are planned and anticipated. It is plausible to believe that the population explosion is as much a consequence of planned love-making as it is of merrymaking.
‘Family planning’ or ‘contraception’ would not have earned a space in the medical and social lexicon had it not been for the faulty design of the female anatomy. Governments and non-governmental organizations will not have to spend a small fortune on family planning if there is no connection between the cervix and the vagina.
This must not, however, blind us to the fact that AIDS has already reached epidemic proportions. Rubber may be a protective shield against sexually infectious diseases and unwanted pregnancies. If transsexuals are a medical reality, can’t the congenital conduit, the connection between the cervix and the vagina, also be diverted? Is this an absurdity?
Pema Khandu
Motithang,Thimphu
(khandu.pema@gmail.com)
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Faulty female anatomy? HHhmmmm. Where are the biology teachers……or even medical persons to explain why it is faulty or whose brain model is speaking here – ‘male brain model’ or ‘female brain model’? If someone has that clipping, may be it is wise to share here….
This person will collapse in the western world! At least in Bhutan you have something to imagine and let the saliva drool down the chin but sure the anatomies are at right places for their right reasons, right uses.
To talk about and to make condoms popular, I don’t think we need to talk about the placement of anatomy!
wow dawa tshering, mofa, bilateral division…nice to re-read ur article here once again…keep writing ur observation on famale anatomy, u are the best guy man
whatever it may be and whoever the author of the article may be, it’s important that we contemplate on what is written, not who’s written.it’s also important that we appreciate that it is an outcome of merely free thoughts that have seen this publication through free expression. having said this, it’s equally important that we see what’s written as well.
i have read the article, and honestly i do not deem it to be something that should have been published, or worse of all that should been written. there is nothing, and i believe other readers will agree with me, there is controversial or sensitive or sexist. while i do not urge all readers to shower the author with praises nor do i wholly subscribe to the idea that the author has expressed, we should thank the author for writing something that could be, as the writer had put ‘food for thought’.
so whether the writer is a woman or man is not important. what is important is that he or she, whoever, he or she, may be has written….”with all due respect to our womankind….”. again i do not read any line or word that would irritate or devalue the womankind.
free thought it is.