Gabrielle Stanley Blair

(3.45 Stars)

First thought: I liked this book. period.

I wanted to like it more, especially since I completely agree with the author's main points. The included reference materials are helpful and hopefully it will open up the eyes of people who do not consider the consequences of sex, if they could bother to read it (which I doubt).

What I found myself thinking as I read this book was that when statistics and data proved her points it was used, and when other points were being declared the author seemed to heavily rely on anecdote and/or emotions, or the most extreme examples. But I want to stress, even with that being said, the book contains lots of great information, valid points, and complete facts that are a disturbing vision of how women are dehumanized when it comes to choices about their own bodies and how men think of them.

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I recently finished Ejaculate Responsibly after seeing Gabrielle Stanley Blair interviewed on a book program. She's a religious woman with 6 kids who thinks reasonably. In fact, she thinks so reasonably that this book should be required reading for every politician and religious person with an opinion on abortion. However, banning abortion has nothing to do with reason, so I'm sure most would not be swayed. Her idea is that women are fertile for just a few days a month for a few years of their lives. Men are fertile every day for almost their entire lives. If one wants to stop abortion then the only reasonable thing to do is to make sure that men ejaculate responsibly.… (más)