1flesh.org: The Revolt Against Artificial Contraception

Blogger extraordinaire Marc Barnes (aka BadCatholic) has just launched a really cool project primed to make a big splash. It's called 1flesh.org, and it's a grassroots movement in opposition to the use of artificial contraception. It's dedicated to "bringing great sex to the entire universe."

1flesh.org uses primarily secular arguments from the fields of medicine, sociology and philosophy to make its points. It's also edgy and very beautifully designed. See for yourself:

The site features videos and testimonials, an active blog, and even a Facebook group provocatively called "Bring Sexy Back". However my favorite part of the site is the Arguments page which highlights several reasons why contraception is a bad idea. You'll learn:

Marc's convinced the website will shift the popular opinion on contraception. And he couldn't have picked a better time to launch the site. With the HHS mandate in the forefront of the political conversation, contraception has suddenly become a very hot topic.

"We’re 21st century kids. And as such, we’ve had delivered to us a world with sky-high rates of divorce, abortion, and STDs; a world bored with sex and bored with romance; a world in which more and more people are turning to pornography to find sexual satisfaction; a world in which 1 in 5 women report being sexual assaulted, and the human body — the sexiest thing in the universe — is used to sell cars.

After extremely little consideration, we decided we don’t want that. We want awesome relationships and mind-blowing sex lives. We want women and men to be respected and loved for who they are, to the very depths of their being. We want sex free from fear, love free from use, and a world of people who love and respect their own bodies. In short, we want sexy back. In fact, we demand it.

1Flesh means just that. One flesh. Total union. No wrapping men in rubber or pumping women with artificial hormones. No interrupting the act of making love. Once the sex act became something in which women were “controlled” and men were “restrained” everything seemed to fall apart. Suddenly “objectification” wasn’t such a hard thing to do. Instead of repeating the mistakes of our parents, we’re trying to spread words of rebellion; that sex should be awesome, that pregnancy can be justly avoided without harmful chemicals, and that love is worth fighting for."

So check out 1flesh.org and share it far and wide through your blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, email contacts, and more.

Posted on: June 28, 2012 in Blog
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Rbamer2

See our recent article: Why OCPs (Oral Contraceptives) Should NOT Be Part of a Preventative Care Mandate by Dr. R. Peck and Dr. C. Norris documenting the medical harms of the pill, including increased breast and cervical cancers and increased cardiovascular risks and harms (Linacre Quarterly, Feb 2012). Oral contraception act as abortifacient and are NOT women's health. When physicians like myself and my husband perform preventative care, we are doing pap smears, looking for cervical cancer, referring for mammograms to look for breast cancer and giving immunizations to prevent real diseases, like influenza and pneumoniae. Writing a birth control prescription to prevent... A CHILD is NOT preventative care!! When did a child become a disease? Shutting down a perfectly healthy bodily system (like your fertility) is also NOT preventative care. And causing increased problems, like increased breast and cervical cancers, blood clots and strokes, is CAUSING disease, not preventing it. Young people wake up -- the govenrment is doing a huge injustice to you by including these poison pills in a preventative care mandate. Drs Rebecca and Benjamin Peck, Pecks Family Practice
- HeilMary1
  
  Birth control pills save the lives, looks and marriages of millions of women! No marriage survives stinky childbirth bladder and bowel fistula incontinence, which most women suffered from before experimental fistula surgeries 150 years ago. The pill treats numerous hormonal imbalance diseases and cured my acne.
Guest

This is the most ridiculous site I have ever seen. The idea that someone should not utilize birth control to prevent pregnancy or condoms to prevent STDs is ludicrous and is harmful to the young people in our society.
- http://www.brandonvogt.com/ Brandon Vogt
  
  Guest, thanks for the comment! You might want to check these out before making such a claim:
  
  http://www.1flesh.org/category/arguments/
  
  Were there any arguments on the site you had particular trouble with? Thanks!
  - HeilMary1
    
    You objectify us women as throwaway breeders for spoiled pedophile priests!
Rbamer2

No what is HARMFUL to young people is telling them that there is such a thing as SAFE SEX. What is HARMFUL to young people is to tell them to go ahead and have sex even if they are not ready to have children. What is Harmful to young people is to give them oral contraceptives for free and call this preventative care and then watch to see the pulmonary emboli, or strokes, or cervical cancer, or breast cancer that result. And what is harmful to young people, is to have people like you out there who refuse to see the truth. A truth that includes the doubling of divorce rates since the pill was introduced, the exploding sexually transmited disease rates, the single parenthood epidemic, the violence in young people, the pornography explosion, the general demoralization of society.
- HeilMary1
  
  "pulmonary emboli, or strokes, ... or breast cancer"
  
  These are actually caused by CHILDBIRTH in much greater numbers. And cervical cancer is caused by cheating NFP-outsourced husbands like my dad! Our high divorce and single motherhood rates are caused by WARS that robbed women of husbands! Thanks to US war profiteers, women greatly outnumber men. Get a clue about gender imbalances and quit blaming looks- and health-saving contraception!
Kschuett

I don't know if NPH or Hyperbole and a Half share your viewpoint; you might want to remove stolen graphics from your page
- http://www.brandonvogt.com/ Brandon Vogt
  
  Good point; thanks for the commen! If you go to 1flesh.org, you'll see that Marc removed all copyrighted images.
  
  Did you have a chance to read any of the Arguments?
  
  http://www.1flesh.org/category/arguments/
  - HeilMary1
    
    Google obstetric fistulas to get a clue why childbirth ruins marriages and turns incontinent wives into lepers. Even with "modern" obstetrics, 50% of American MOTHERS suffer childbirth incontinence, hence DEPENDS ads and our 50% divorce rate by DISGUSTED husbands. Fistulas aren't sexy! Nor are cancers caused by FEMALE FETUSES that rotted off the face of my best friend before murdering her!
    - vandamme
      
      "The WHO claims that fistula was largely eradicated in developed countries in the late 19th century" says Wikipedia. I think your friend's cancer was not caused by her daughter. Interesting ideas you have.
  - HeilMary1
    
    And you do know that NFP is a complete scam since women ovulate 2 and 3 times PER MONTH, leaving them NO infertile cycle to avoid killer pregnancies?!
    - vandamme
      
      Sorry, but that is erroneous. I teach NFP, and see a lot of charts, and you are ...well, misinformed. Hotheaded, too.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P54CNXAMOWVHMF7VMP4L3UHKQE Therese

One more harmful result of the "safe sex" propaganda: teens who really do not want to have sex, are made to believe that they really have no good reason to say no!!
Unlike, my high school days (pre- birth control pills and abortion back-up), the fear of pregnancy is no longer a deterrant.
Contrary to the stupid argument that "everyone was having sex anyway" so go ahead and push contraception on them, most teens were not having sex. The ones that were usually got "caught."
- HeilMary1
  
  So you prefer teens be maimed and murdered by dangerous pregnancies and STDs instead?? You are guilty of criminal Munchausen by Proxy psychosis! How about just urging teens to avoid UNwanted sex?!
Annette P.

I always find it interesting that those who are for artificial birth control (ABC) want respect for their opinion but are not in the slightest bit interested in your opinion. I have to shake my head at the quality, or lack thereof, of some of the pro-ABC arguments. It is true that childbirth is riskier than ABC, but women don't take a ABC to prevent the risks of pregnancy, they take it to prevent having a baby.
- Guest
  
  What's wrong with that?
Adlerd

I think what Marc is doing is great. The website looks sharp and I pray it is successful.