ABSTRACT
SEX WITH CONTRACEPTION A woman to whom one of us mentioned our intent to write this article said with some bitterness and anger: What are men doing writing about contraception?’ Many women and men seem to have concluded that if women bear the risk of pregnancy, men ought not to be involved in sharing decisions about contraception. However, as we are opposed to sexism, we have assumed that men should take more interest in and responsibility for contraception. But when, four months ago, we started talking about our experiences, we found that each of us had failed pretty fundamentally to develop a sexual practice which avoided the risk of pregnancy. As we had generally become more ‘liberated’, more knowledgeable about different devices, more open to our partners and more responsible, so the problems involved in avoiding pregnancy increased.
