I would like to know...

[samvara]

Poll #8152 Asking the HARD questions...

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Would you rather have

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Conscious control of your fertility
12 (44.4%)

Just enough telekinesis to lift a pair of keys
15 (55.6%)

Comments

[sara]

I don't have any fertility any longer, so I will take Door B, thanks.

(This is very much by choice. I love the children I have, we had considered having a third, but jesus fuck on a pogo stick you could not compensate me enough in any way to make me ever be pregnant again.)

[samvara]

I hear you!

I wanted telekinesis, but I'm pretty gay sometimes so it's less of an issue... I go whole years without thinking about contraception.

[sara]

Sadly, I don't think lesbianism causes telekinesis. Although now I kind of want a story where it does, because hey, that would be awesome.

[samvara]

Heh, that would be fantastic and further proof lesbians are Gods Chosen People.

I want that story too now, I wonder if I can inveigle chaosmanor into writing it for me.

[sara]

It would be, like, the opposite of X-Men. Or something.

(I'm just imagining how you'd explain it to children. "But I wanna be telekinetic!" "Not until you're older, honey.")

[samvara]

I imagine you'd get better with age; highly skilled elderly women who can do *anything* with their minds (in tiny increments). Hrm, this would mean the combined powers of elderly lesbians would be incredible, right?

[ironed_orchid]

Given that most of the controlling I do of my fertility has to do with prevention, I sort of do have conscious control over it... but I would prefer to do it with the power of my mind!

[samvara]

You never run out, it's not icky or inconvenient, you don't have to fight your partner over it, there are no side affects...

[juliet]

I am one of the fortunate folk who (when with fertile male partners) gets on v well with fertility awareness (& doesn't mind at all using condoms at appropriate times). And that seems to operate in both directions (no scares in the several years I've taken that route; got pregnant within 3 cycles when we decided to). So on a purely personal level I'll take the TK.

(But am aware that all of that makes me v lucky in my het encounters!)

I do like FAM, primarily for the side effects (lack of) thing. [ mutters about hormonal contraception ]

[fred_mouse]

especially if this is something everyone gets. No accidental children for anyone, ever. no sabotage of contraceptive devices by one or other partner in a heterosexual couple. No trying multiple cycles of IVF with the dreadful psychological and physical toll. etc.

[samvara]

All beautiful, BEAUTIFUL things!

[hope]

My fertility issues cause me grief despite not me not being interested in having babies right now. I'd rather that not be such a pain rather than telekinesis, which I've never had and never expect to have (unlike babies...)

[samvara]

*hugs*

I'm sorry things have caused grief :(

[hope]

Eh, it's just become a part of my life now. Not so much literal grief as frustration!

<3

ETA: I also read it as the person below did - how fantastic to be able to basically get pregnant on command! So much saved heartache there, as well as in the saved fear of / repercussions from unintentionally falling pregnant.

[meghanc]

Frankly, I'd chop off an arm in exchange for conscious control of my fertility. I'm pretty gay, and I married a pretty gay (trans)man, and attempting to have a child has been devastating, both financially and emotionally.

[samvara]

*hugs* I am ashamed to admit I was thinking of it entirely in terms of prevention but you are so, so right. Being able to turn it on as well as off would be a fantastic benefit.

[meghanc]

It's sort of funny, really--I think that people who don't want kids almost always think of fertility mostly as prevention, and people who do want kids think of it mostly as...whatever the opposite of prevention is in this instance, I guess.

It's an interesting choice you've posed, though--was there something that prompted it?

[samvara]

Makes sense, you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Nothing special, I was thinking about fertility and control and trying to imagine something I'd want more... and thinking about superpowers like Aquaman being able to read the minds of fish which is kind of minor but also incredibly influential.

[lilysea]

I've already taken permanent steps to control my fertility,
so I choose telekinesis, yay!

I want to work out how to do Shiny performance art with it...

[samvara]

Light things - bubbles!

[lian]

If I was having any sort of sex that could lead to reproduction, I'd choose the fertility control, but as it it...*floats up her glasses*

I mean, if non-sexual reproduction were on the table I'd totally opt for "choosing when/if to get pregnant.", but oh well.

[samvara]

non-sexual reproduction...

Clearly the current situation is heavily flawed!

[leecetheartist]

Hey, I can control my fertility by readily available means as I don't want children. I don't think there are drugs and prophylactics to prevent non-telekinesis, so I'll take the telekinesis thanks. Anyone who's ever dropped a credit card down into the firewall section of a car would also be tempted. I did get it out, but no telekinesis and a lot of grunting was involved.