So I’ve spent most of my public holiday today writhing in pain for no other reason then I am a female of childbearing age who is not currently bearing a child and my uterus hates me for it.
Does that seem like a raw deal to anyone else?
You’d think, with all our modern medicine and abilities to put people on the moon and whatnot, that they should have devised some sort of system where, when the girl is 13 she can opt to have her uterus taken out and given back to her at a time when she is:
A - not going to end up on 16 and Pregnant or whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com
B - not going to abuse it by letting any so-and-so stick his bits and batter in it,
C - so we don’t waste hundreds of dollars a year accommodating actions we don’t even want our bodies to take, and
D – so we’re not all raging hellmonkies once a month due to chemical reactions beyond our control
Just think: no BC, no tampons, no pads, no cups, no implants, no condoms (to a degree, obviously if you have a disease you’re condom-bound), until you’re actually ready to start using it for what it’s made for - babycooking. It’d be awesome. It’s probably healthier too, I’ve heard serval times on various programs that girls these days are starting their periods earlier and starting childbearing later so we’re having more cycles then is really necessarily, which is why BC is being made that can stop your periods all together without it being raged and ranted about being unhealthy.
This makes sense as, if you think back to, like, Jane Austen time, you started your period when you were 13, you were married off by the time you were 20 (at the latest, oh the shame to be older!) and were expected to start babybaking straight away, then you’d hit menopause by the time you were what, 40 IF you even made it to that age. Compare this with now days, where it’s not unusual to start your period before you’ve finished primary school, but where we’re now leaving babymaking til we’re 30 as we’re career conscious, so we don’t hit menopause until something like 60-70. That’s a lot of bleeding.
Anyways, I went into this rant and started working out the math of how much I spend a month on my period, but it was getting too complicated so here’s a short version. It’s about $15 per period, but I’m not on birth control pills, nor currently needing to regularly purchase condoms so I’m not a great example. Even still, this ends up being $180 a year, I’ve been getting my period for 10 years now, so that’s $1800 on pads, liners and tampons. Then there was the Implanon ($45) and the short while I was on the Pill ($60 per month and I think I was on it for three months) which brings us to $2025 without taking into account condoms, or the fact that when I was on the Implanon it actually gave me my period everyday instead of stopping it (which is a very effective form of birth control if your boyfriend doesn’t do period sex and it also kills off all sex drive you may have possessed, as in my case).
So there’s all this and I still haven’t decided if I even want to have biological children. I’ve wanted to adopt since I can remember but haven’t 100% decided against having my own babies or wanting to have babies as a surrogate, but once I do I’m totally taking my babymaking bits out and donating them to someone who’s infertile or IVF isn’t working for. Anyone who my healthy bits can help make happy, same way that I’ll donate whatever I have that’s in good enough shape to be used when I’m dead. If I’m not using it, I’m not going to miss it (totally understand that people don’t have the same view and do not judge either way based on that FYI) and if it can make someone else’s life easier, then yay.
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