\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne interesting thing is the shifting roles of condoms in heterosexual culture
\nLike, part (but not all) of the Sexual Revolution dynamic was The Pill and now you didn\u2019t have to worry about it! (As in, men didn\u2019t have to worry about contraception, which was entirely on women now)
\nBut then AIDS, which was part-cynically leveraged to reenchant condoms (or abstinence) even among straights
\nRemember the Austin Powers bit where the spy frozen in the Swinging Sixties and unfrozen in the 90s laughs off the concept of condoms as something for sailors? (who patronize cheap dockside prostitutes also patronized by other sailors from disease pools all over the world)
\nBut that seems to have faded. Since the 2000s I see girls complaining that guys never want to wear condoms \u201cany more\u201d, the whole \u201cstealthing\u201d thing treats insistence on condoms as one of those female things you pretend to humor but certainly don\u2019t actually respect
\nAnd then there\u2019s the girls that want it. \u201ccreampie\u201d as a fetish, the act of just ejaculating in a vagina as like a special niche sex act, you started to see that in the mid-2000s. You saw stuff called \u201ccreampie\u201d before that but that was specifically eating semen out of the vagina, as part of cuckoldry or other Fdom humiliation, or in MFF threesomes as a way to get everyone in on the cumshot
\nAnd so now that\u2019s advanced to the point where impreg risk is almost a mainstream hot part of heterosexuality, which gets a bit weird. Saw a reddit post that was like \u201cmy boyfriend stopped using condoms after a few months, and he\u2019d be dirty talking to me like he was going to knock me up, and that was really hot, and I just thought of it as a hot kink, but then I actually became pregnant\u201d
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\nOh okay I looked back over that reddit post and though she never directly said it, reading between the lines she was herself on birth control, which is why she thought of barebacking with impreg dirty talk as a weightless lark. So the thing getting pregnant made her reevaluate wasn\u2019t \u201cwait, this is really how babby is formed?\u201d, it was \u201cwait, was he serious about the impreg thing and sabotaging my birth control?\u201d, which is a lot more sympathetic and less ditzy.
\nSo okay, that\u2019s not a sign of \u201cpeople are fetishizing insemination and impregnation so hard they forget that\u2019s what sex is for\u201d. But it is a sign of \u201cpeople are fetishizing impregnation as a hostile, controlling act so hard they forget that some of the people vocally enthusiastic about impregnation as a hostile, controlling act actually want to impregnate women as a hostile, controlling act\u201d
\nFor one, that\u2019s extremely relevant to the infohazard, which you will hear about before September
\nFor two, there\u2019s also themes of \u201cbeing impregnated as a hostile, controlling act\u201d floating around out there. \u201cForced orgasm\u201d, don\u2019t-let-him-pull-out, baby-trapping, \u201cyandere\u201d, as a way to steal him or lock him down.
\nThat seems to have started with the by-women, for-women, power-dynamics-first world of erotic fanfiction, but professional studios are starting to introduce elements of it to the \u201cstep\u201d-family incest brands they kicked off the post-gonzo Return of Plot with, or even create brands specifically for it.
\nAnd so if that\u2019s becoming an equal part of our post-consent mainstream sexual imaginary, you wonder just how much kidding on the square it is.
\nPregnant with anticipation for the infohazard.
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