The Family Un-Planner

[Ravenstorm]

This isn't really a political thread per se. I can't imagine most anyone thinking this person is actually qualified to be appointed to the position he was, not even conservative Republicans. Our taxes will be paying his salary. Click here (http://www.slate.com/id/2154249?nav=wp).


On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation's family-planning program got a new boss who doesn't believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms "offer virtually no protection" against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage.

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He is obviously not a capitalist. You definitely need to test drive before you buy...

[Sean of the Thread]

Condoms offer zero protection against HPV??

[ElanthianSiren]

Most contraceptives do have weaknesses that make you vulnerable to some STV's. The other problem is that most viruses can live on skin for awhile (HSV is an example of this breed, which can also live on towels, cups, glasses etc). The part about disrupting brain chemistry though is just a crock of shit. The only way that I can see it as being justified is by an emotional/expectation instance, not a physiological one. In english, lack of premarital sex would force a person to think that what they're getting is the best (theoretically -- unless they watch porn/read porn/or are exposed to most american culture). Way to prove that they let almost anyone be an M.D. now and try to force sexual ignorance.

-M
edit: I'd still advocate condoms for the ever so unlikely instance (that's not so unlikely) that people will engage in premarital sex in droves because for those select cases where HPV and HSV or even HIV are not prevented there are literally hundreds of thousands where those viruses ARE prevented proportionately. Talk about cutting your nose to spite your face with the "OMGZ Condoms are not perfect!!! Nobody use them!" offensive.

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Way to prove that they let almost anyone be an M.D. now and try to force sexual ignorance.

-M

QFT

[Skirmisher]

What a freak.

Why not just name Tom Cruise?

[Sean of the Thread]

Because Tom Cruise is a shitty actor and Eric Keroack is a OBGYN?

[Latrinsorm]

Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage.YAH WELL every1 thought the earth was flat until columbos and gallilieleo!!!!!!!!111

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Kerowack. Not to be confused with the great American writer Kerouac.

[SpunGirl]

"Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women."

What about men?

-K

[Artha]

It's ok for us because we're guys.

[Parkbandit]

"Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women."

What about men?

-K

Men like to hit virgins. Duh.

[Ravenstorm]

"Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women."

What about men?

-K

Don't you know a woman's purpose is to be faithful to one man? How many women the man has is irrelevant you see ;p

Over here (http://www.alternet.org/rights/44411/) is more info on him and his theories as well as a bunch of nice links and the doctor's own Powerpoint presentation on how a woman's brain, when she has sex, produces hormones which then cause her to 'bond' with the man. See, love doesn't exist so much as hormonal bondage. And if you fixate on too many men then obviously by the time you get to Man #7, your brain has been screwed up and spread all over the place. Or something.


Keroack's fitting title for that novel presentation was "If I Only Had a Brain." In an unpublished article that has become an established text of the abstinence movement, he wrote, "People who have misused their sexual faculty and become bonded to multiple persons will diminish the power of oxytocin to maintain a permanent bond with an individual." Keroack's teaching on the role of "God's 'super-glue'" is accepted as irrefutable in an article titled Fornication and Oxytocin.

And this guy has received the Bush stamp of approval.

[Stanley Burrell]

premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage

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Let it be known that Eric Keroack was knocked up as a sperm cell, then.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Everyone knows that your brain chemistry massively changes because of a piece of paper and a ring and that only those two things can trigger such a change to make a positive impact on your sexual performance, satisfaction, and fertility!

My hypothesis is that this guy probably has a 4-inch boner and banged a chick. They broke up, she banged another guy with a 9-incher. Then when he tried to get back with her, she was like "HELL NO MINI-DICK" and married the guy with the big wang.

In his bitterness he decided to use his MD title and degree to prevent other small-dicked guys from getting left by unsatisfied girlfriends.. because if they haven't had anything else, they can't know what the other side is like. And once she's married she's more "locked" in.

</sarcasm + joke>

All I can really say more than what other people have said is:

God's Superglue? :rofl:

[Drew]

the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage.


Sex does cause a chemical reaction in the brain that cause men and women to bond with each other. Presumably you make a better choice in a mate without these chemicals blocking cold hard logic. So he's not entirely wrong.

[Skirmisher]

Don't you know a woman's purpose is to be faithful to one man? How many women the man has is irrelevant you see ;p

Over here (http://www.alternet.org/rights/44411/) is more info on him and his theories as well as a bunch of nice links and the doctor's own Powerpoint presentation on how a woman's brain, when she has sex, produces hormones which then cause her to 'bond' with the man. See, love doesn't exist so much as hormonal bondage. And if you fixate on too many men then obviously by the time you get to Man #7, your brain has been screwed up and spread all over the place. Or something.



And this guy has received the Bush stamp of approval.

Does that surprise anyone?

I'm sure he'll do a "heckuva job!"

[Wezas]

promote the use of condoms

If you listened more in chat you'd know they are useless against HIV
</drew logic>

[Bobmuhthol]

<<Everyone knows that your brain chemistry massively changes because of a piece of paper and a ring and that only those two things can trigger such a change to make a positive impact on your sexual performance, satisfaction, and fertility!>>

What a dumb thing to say.

[ElanthianSiren]

Sex does cause a chemical reaction in the brain that cause men and women to bond with each other. Presumably you make a better choice in a mate without these chemicals blocking cold hard logic. So he's not entirely wrong.

If what this doctor proposes was true, there'd be a helluva lot more bonded people on this earth, and/or he'd be advocating men abstain also. The focus I saw was on women. What he's loosely referring to is pair bonding, and while sex is part of it, there are many more components: grooming, feeding, behavioral mirroring, and so on that support pair bonding, which as humans, we do with the opposite/same sex since pre-puberty. There goes that theory.

Then, there are the sociological aspects: similar backgrounds, religions, political affiliations, family history, basically ideals that in general give a relationship a better chance. Once again, some whack job tries to pin the failed relationship rate in this country on antiquated biblical ideals while advocating that it's ALL the woman's fault. :clap: Award for being a lemming.

Bottom line -- he needs to either go get a career that fulfills his lust-for-virgins or get his malicious lies out of women's ovaries. I can't say it clearer; I hope they rip him apart come confirmation.

-M