Tubes, Truths and Trials

It says a lot about a man who has already fathered an unknown child from unprotected intercourse, that he would be nearing his fifties still never having learned to use a condom

It says a lot about a man that he would cancel his subscription to the Wellness Newsletter because it reported, without any ambiguity, that there is no health-related reason to prevent a man from having a vasectomy, a safer procedure than tubal ligation

It says a lot about a man that his wife, nearing her fifties, after years taking the pill, after years wearing a coil, after years bearing children, has to say to him that to prevent another pregnancy, it's only fair and considerate, that now he be responsible for contraception, given his sexual expectations

It says a lot about a man that he refuses and then accuses her of coldness, of needing sexual healing

It says that for him, women’s bodies, women’s issues, are women’s problems

Especially when he jokes, "You'll be pregnant in no time"

Especially when he protests, “I never told anyone I was a feminist”

I never knew that man