Condoms

Since today is Valentines Day, this seems like an appropriate topic. It is a bit delicate as topics go, but let's tackle it anyway.

If you are a male who wants to control his fertility in the early years of the 21st century, you have only two choices. You can either:

• Go get a vasectomy, or
• Use a condom.

The former is ridiculous -- sort of like cutting off your legs because you don't feel like walking today. And the latter is unbelievably sad.

The condom is a technology that has been around for several millennia, and it is largely unchanged since its invention. The condom has three gigantic, glaring problems:

1. When a male uses a condom, it deadens the sexual experience.
2. When a male uses a condom, it deadens the sexual experience.
3. When a male uses a condom, it deadens the sexual experience.

Oh yeah, and did I mention that it deadens the sexual experience? So that is four problems. Plus, you have to stop and put on the condom right in the middle of the sexual experience... What a great design idea for this technology!

All of these problems mean that males are highly unlikely to use condoms. And when males do not use condoms, condoms usually do not work. Plus, even if a male does use a condom, they have a tendency to fail on a not irregular basis by bursting or leaking. And then there is the problem that women generally do not enjoy the feel of condoms either.

All in all, you can see that condoms are one of the saddest technologies in use today!

The conversations with the grandkids around this topic ought to be a laugh-riot. We'll skip the dialog this time, but you can imagine the grandkids screaming, "You did WHAT????" toward the end of the explanation and then needing to have hernia surgery after they finish laughing.

What we would hope is that, by 2050, males and females both have conscious control over their fertility. That is, in any sexual encounter, both the male and female make a conscious decision to be fertile or not. And we would assume that this conscious control is achieved in a way that invisible, effective, safe and undetectable by both parties. This would mean that both parties would have to have consciously decided to be fertile for a pregnancy to be possible.