In
Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a
provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America.
In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for
moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating
women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of
accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds
her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men
are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on
women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control
market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control
for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and
emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are
fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for
preventing pregnancy.
The result is a compelling and convincing case for placing the
responsibility—and burden—of preventing unwanted pregnancies
away from women and onto men.