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The folks over at My Little Black Book have figured out the ultimate way to talk about vaginas – distract people with kittens doing funny shit while you give them a bunch of stats to do with the cost of operating a vagina (hint: it’s pretty expensive).
Sneaky sneaky.
And to add to all the cleverness, there’s the whole watching pussies while talking about – WINK.
How much does your vagina cost you on a weekly/monthly/annual basis? You know, if you had to take a guess….
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$14.95 for four months of Levlen (so $3.50 a month for BC), $20 every 3-4 months for my microgynon prescription, $4 ish a month for liners, $15 for new undies every couple of months because I still can't control what my periods are up to and ruin them (they're never quite the same no matter how well I wash them)...
I don't have tampon/pad costs anymore, because, being the crunchy hippy that I am, bought a Meluna cup and am onto using that from this week ($35 posted from the uk). Also considering purchasing a handful of cloth pads/liners.
All up, mine costs about $15 to own a month, and most of that is me being sooky about being able to change to a fresh panty liner and wanting control over my periods (not that that always works).
It seems many people here are missing the point. Females are victims. They are even victims of their own vaginas. Whereas men are not victims of their own penis. Hence the inherent inequitable nature of things. Poor females. Although nothing is said about a female using her vagina to manipulate men's sexuality for their own gain. Like a female friend of Nikki Gemmel. Ms. Gemmel wrote in one of her articles in the Weekend Australian Magazine that her friend had faked every sexual response with a guy she eventually married until she divorced him 20 years later. Why did she do this? To get the bills paid. Like that female who used to be the host of Big Brother years ago. She said in an interview in a local Cairns magazine that one of the reasons she was not married was because she didn't need the money. So all the costs of a vagina invented by females are nothing more than an investment in the future where much greater returns are made. Even modern females expect a man to pay for sex. This is why prostitution has ballooned in Australia. A man can pay for sex as normal but also actually have sex and without all the associated legal risks.
1. It's a tongue in cheek advertisement, not a soapbox talk on how hard done by women are. Lighten up.
2. You don't stay with a man for 20 years just to pay the bills. And if you do, it's more to do with sociopathic behaviour than gender, or do you believe no man has ever ridden a successful woman's coat tails?
3. If you are going to refer to a woman who was in the public area, why not take 30 seconds out of your day, have a crack at Google and actually use her name?
4. Not sure how condoms and Tampax are inventions or investments in the future (by which I assume you mean children, because that's the only way we women contribute)
5. Women don't expect you to 'pay for sex' in the typical dating scene, I am not saying some don't expect to go Dutch, but you seem to think buying dinner or drinks somehow must lead to sex - you have no guarantee of that, it is not an agreed contract, so it is not prostitution - although how delightful that is how you see your dates or potential mates.
6. If a woman chooses not to allow you access to her vagina, regardless of whether you feel you are being manipulated, it's her right to do so. When a guy is being a prize dick and you are really annoyed/angry/upset/frustrated about something, the last thing you want is to have him fuck you. Being instantaneously horny regardless of what has been going on is not that common in women.
7. I personally have no problem with you frequenting brothels so as not to get caught up in all the 'legal risks' - just remember there would no industry without a committed and continuous patronage.