When You Are Wet, A Baby You Can Get

Well, Gomer strikes again. This time he's apparently Dr. Gomer.

Rick Santorum, in his infinite wisdom and broad of knowledge of women's bodies, their purpose and function, has decided that birth control harms women. Of course he doesn't mention the infinite number of women who are recommended and prescribed hormone based contraceptives for everything from debilitating cramps to endometriosis, but, again he is fixated on unmarried women having sex. What I think he should focus on, instead, is proselytizing to the men on the merits of keeping their weenies in their pants. It's not like unmarried women are having sex by themselves. With effectiveness in that effort, he could help ensure that any woman, on birth control or not, would have to worry about the temptation of unmarried sex.

On the method of family planning that he promotes - the rhythm method I presume - I heard about that from a prominent Milwaukee doctor who was guest lecturer in my requisite "Christian Marriage" class during my last semester of college. The good doctor had 13 children - one of whom was in the class (who neglected to show up that day and was sleeping with the young woman who lived in the apartment below mine). He showed us how to draw little houses on a calendar to map out fertility as it related to ovulation. He also had an accompanying rhyme so that you could remember when it was safe to have sex with your husband: "When you are wet, a baby you can get. When you are dry, the sperm will die."

That was so special I still remember it all these years later ... and still LAUGH out loud!