Ladies, Shut Your Legs: How The Pill Ruined Marriage And Civilization

Raquel Welch, noted scientist and philosopher, is worried about the effect of the pill on morality.

Women being able to have sex without consequences means that fewer want to get married. It also also led to men who can’t “keep it in their pants.”

She rose prominence after the release of One Million Years B.C., an anthropological documentary about the beginnings of civilization.

During the CNN program It’s SexO’Clock in America, Welch said:

The growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values… Seriously, folks, if an ageing sex symbol like me starts waving the red flag of caution over how low moral standards have plummeted, you know it’s gotta be pretty bad.

She admitted on the show that the pill made it easier for women to delay children and have careers. But that benefit pales in comparison to the damage done to marriage. Less women are choosing to marry and men are forgetting the art of fidelity.

Things were certainly different in her time, before the pill became readily available.

Back then if a man clubbed you over the head and dragged you off to his cave, it was a sign of real commitment.

Despite her qualifications as an “ageing sex symbol” I disagree with the damage she says the pill hath wrought.

Lust is a stupid reason to get married (although it is a great reason to masturbate). Most of married life is actually spent not having sex, and if you don’t like that person out of the bedroom the marriage won’t last long.

Men and women have always been unfaithful, so the pill hasn’t changed much there. The only difference with the pill is that after a tumble in the hay women don’t have to spend weeks praying that they’ll get their periods, and men don’t have to book their tickets on the next train out of town.

However if she is right that civilization is descending into sexual anarchy all I can say is, what a way to go!