The Waves: Ejaculate Responsibly
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by author Gabrielle Blair. Blair’s new book Ejaculate Responsibly presents the radical idea that men should take control of the fertility conversation by better managing their sperm. After all, they're fertile 24-hours a day compared to women’s 24-hours a month. Cheyna and Gabrielle also talk about the problem with not prioritizing women’s pain, Gabrielle’s history as a “Design Mom” and how even Mormons seem to agree with Gabrielle’s book.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Waves Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and making men responsible for their sperm. |
| 0:22.8 | Every episode, you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. And today you've got me, |
| 0:26.9 | Shana Roth, senior producer here at Slate. This week, we're waiting into the abortion argument |
| 0:33.7 | again, but looking at it in a very different way. We're looking at it from a getting |
| 0:38.8 | pregnant in the first place lens and how we shift the burden from women to men. Recently, I was |
| 0:45.6 | thrilled to realize that my home state, Michigan, is not the red bastion the yard signs in my |
| 0:51.6 | neighborhood would have had me believe. We passed a ballot measure that |
| 0:55.1 | enshrines the right to an abortion in our state constitution, which is fantastic. Abortions |
| 1:02.3 | should be legal. It's a medical procedure that politics really needs to stay the hell out of. |
| 1:07.5 | But it also got me thinking, no one really wants to have an abortion. It's not a game |
| 1:13.5 | that people are playing. No one has sex hoping that the experience will culminate in an abortion. |
| 1:19.8 | It's what happens when there is an unwanted pregnancy. There's also medical reasons for abortions |
| 1:24.9 | where the fetus is wanted but can't be carried, But we are focusing this episode on unwanted pregnancies. So if no one wants to have abortions to begin with, |
| 1:35.1 | shouldn't we be doing more to prevent unwanted pregnancies? But when you start to think about it, |
| 1:41.1 | the options that we have are very archaic and overwhelmingly focused on what |
| 1:46.5 | women have to do to prevent pregnancies. Most birth control options are for women and can cause |
| 1:52.3 | an array of side effects that run the gamut and severity from headaches to death. |
| 2:00.6 | Enter Gabrielle Blair. |
| 2:02.7 | Her new book, or maybe the better word for it, is Manifesto. |
| 2:06.6 | Ejaculate responsibly lists the radical yet logical reasons why men need to step up and be more responsible with their dangerous sperm. |
| 2:17.3 | My conversation with Gabrielle Blair starts right after this short break. |
| 2:27.6 | Hey, Waves listeners, if you're loving the show and we really hope you are, |
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