Should birth control be socialized?

[opebo]

Yes, of course birth control should be 'socialized', as well as all other medical care.

[opebo]

Change the subject question to: "Should I be able to have sex at the taxpayer's expense?"

Everyone should answer no, haha.

It has nothing to do with 'having sex at the taxpayer's expense'.  The sex may be paid, or free, or have emotional costs, but in any case all of these are paid by you.  The state should merely provide medical care, for obvious reasons.  Public health is not an individual matter, but rather one of managing things like pregnancy and transmission of various diseases through the population.  A society with provision of free medical care, free STD treatment, and birth control methods will be a much healthier one.

[opebo]

Change the subject question to: "Should I be able to have sex at the taxpayer's expense?"

Everyone should answer no, haha.

It has nothing to do with 'having sex at the taxpayer's expense'.  The sex may be paid, or free, or have emotional costs, but in any case all of these are paid by you.  The state should merely provide medical care, for obvious reasons.  Public health is not an individual matter, but rather one of managing things like pregnancy and transmission of various diseases through the population.  A society with provision of free medical care, free STD treatment, and birth control methods will be a much healthier one.

Perhaps Medicare should be extended to cover prostitutes. After all, the mental health of the elderly is at stake.

I do think that generous pensions should be provided for the elderly, and welfare for the poor, that might enable them to purchase some (legalized) sexual services if they economized in other areas.  However as a medical treatment it should be confined to those who have an actual medical problem such as impotence or some psychological problem relating to their sexual functioning, such as female fridgitidy.  This would probably be better treated by psychologists than prostitutes, though I think there would be some role for 'sexual surrogates' here.

[opebo]

If you can't afford condoms you don't have sex. Quite simple.

^^^^

Why not just have sex anyway?  Or better yet if you're female, have sex with johns for money - and he'll pay you and buy the condom (or pay extra to not use one)     Sure beats working at WalMart.