Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion

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In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair expands on her viral Twitter thread and offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue. In a series of 25 brief arguments, she deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away fromcontrolling and legislating womens bodies and instead directs the focus on mens 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 woman), 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.

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"Blairs fresh reframe should be required reading for any person who has sex, wants to have sex or is raising someone who might have sex in the future. This slender book has what it takes to be the foundation for a movement."Washington Post
"Flashes of acerbic humor and eye-opening statistics bolster Blairs common-sense case. This polemic has the power to change minds."Publishers Weekly
"Any reader of this gorgeous manifesto, men especially, would be hard-pressed to walk away from it without being reminded (*mind blown emoji*) that putting the entire very heavy burden on women to not get pregnant, or to be unable to terminate because of all thats gone on to make abortion illegal or inaccessible, makesa lotless sense than justnotgetting them pregnantin the first place."Oprah Daily
"Slim but mighty tome"Booklist

Author Bio

Gabrielle Stanley Blair is the founder of Alt Summit,the blockbuster biannual conference for lifestyle bloggers and creative entrepreneurs, currently in its twelfth year. She is also the founder of DesignMom.com. Started in 2006, it has been named a Website of the Year byTimemagazine, praised as a top parenting blog byThe Wall Street Journal,Parents, andBetter Homes & Gardens, and won the Iris Award for Blog of the Year. Her first book,Design Mom: How to Live with Kids, aNew York Timesbestseller, was published in 2015 by Artisan.On her website, Gabrielle covers the intersection of design and parenting, with thoughtful posts on topics like how to talk to your kids about sex, family travel, food kids will really eat, political issues, and family-friendly design.Gabrielle and her husband, Ben Blair, have six children Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, Betty, and Flora June. Her family divides their time between the United States and France.