Birth Control and Deception
In this week’s episode of Desperate Housewives, Nicholette Sheridan’s character, Edie, tells her boyfriend, Carlos (played by Ricardo Antonio Chavira), that she wants to have a baby. In fact, he agrees to move in with her and actually try for it. But then we see her go into the bathroom and take a birth control pill instead of flushing them down the toilet like she said she would. And then she comes out into the bedroom and says, “Okay, let’s make a baby.”
Now, I know these people aren’t real, but I also know that people really do this. Have you ever pretended to take or pretended to stop your birth control? Why did you make that decision? And if you’ve never had that experience, what’s your take? Share your opinion in the comments.
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3 opinions for Birth Control and Deception
Mary Jo
May 16, 2007 at 2:34 am
I just cannot imagine lying about something so intimate and so important in a sexual relationship. If you have to lie about this, there’s simply no hope for the relationship.
I think that part of the equality that we got in the women’s movement, was being able to be honest about being sexual beings, and being accountable for our sexual decisions.
Stuff like this sets us back years - and makes me crazy to boot.
Kristen King
May 16, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Mary Jo, I have to agree with you. If you can’t be up front and honest about this kind of thing with your intimate partner, you’re in the wrong relationship.
What does everyone else think?
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alicia
May 16, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Edie is starved for affection, company, etc., and obviously doesn’t want to have a baby; however, if making Carlos *think* she wants to have a baby (and secretly preventing it, meanwhile) means keeping Carlos around, her actions make sense. Especially after he told her he wasn’t in love with her. (That did happen, right, or did I doze off?)
Horrible, lying, deceiving actions, but they make sense for what she’s trying to do, which is keep him around.
I would never do it. If you take the pill, take-the-pill. If you stop, tell your person you’ve stopped. And tell them why. You just don’t trick someone into becoming a parent.
Nor should you trick them into sleeping with you 9,376 times a day to get pregnant when you’re taking steps to prevent it.
There’s no room for deception in a healthy relationship, sexual or otherwise.
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