It's odd how managing the menfolk's sexytimes never turns into a movement

[kpete]

BY HUNTER


An all male panel of clergy testifies before Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee on birth control access. 2/16/2012attribution: House Oversight Committee Democrats

Testimony to Issa's oversight committee: women having sex makes us sad.
You never seem to hear the conservative all-our-religion-is-belong-to-you outrage machine on this stuff:

The federal Department of Health and Human Services dispatched its Office of Inspector General to review Medicare payments for vacuum erection systems, less formally known as penis pumps.

From 2006 through 2011, the investigators found, Medicare paid on average $451 per pump. Medicare beneficiaries were responsible for a $90 co-pay; Medicare put up the remaining $361......

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/no-sex-please-were-on-medicare/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0



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It's only American women that get that treatment. Nobody's screening the menfolk to ensure that they only get their Viagra or their vacuum erection systems if their employers are all right with that sort of thing. There is not 1/100th of the attention spent to deciding whether employers, or taxpayers, or random lawmakers of particular theocratic bent ought to have veto power over sexual health care for men that they are all presumed to have by "natural law" over women. And it is not a case of hobby shops or taxpayers or theocratic lawmakers simply never having the idea, until some other wag pointed it out, because wags have been pointing it out for a very, very long time now to no effect whatsoever. Nope; it is still only the womenfolk whose fertility needs to be managed and ensured, never the men.

How to explain it?

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/08/1275891/-It-s-odd-how-managing-the-menfolk-s-sexytimes-never-turns-into-a-movement

Paging Rush Limbaugh....
Rush, there's MEN out there that want to be PAID to have sex. They want the govt to PAY for their erections. What does that make them? "Sluts", right?

[Berlum]

1. The Neverending GOP War on Women: Attack of the ManSplainers

[Squinch]

2. Why would the men want to control the other men? Those other men aren't their personal vessels

of dynasty. The WOMEN are the men's personal vessels of dynasty. Women are like safe deposit boxes, only for semen. And as such, the men can't let those vessels get out of their sight. They've seen what happens when you give those vessels of dynasty an inch: they become emboldened! They sometimes say they no to men who want to have sex with them, they take all the college seats and pass by men in the workplace. OUTRAGE!

[Quantess]

3. It NEVER gets framed this way.

It's always the women who are put on the defensive.
K&R

[Humanist_Activist]

4. Hate to be a wet blanket, but the reality is that many plans, I would say most, don't cover ED drugs

without some pretty severe restrictions, usually only when they are used to treat other conditions, such as heart disease, and not as erectile dysfunction drugs. I don't see how the situations are comparable at all. Even those that do cover ED drugs for that purpose usually restrict it to about 3-5 pills a month, and copays can be quite high for that.

So, like I said, invalid comparison, if you wanted something truly comparable, then compare coverage of testosterone hormone therapy with estrogen hormone therapy, and see how they compare, its more drastic, I hear of NO one talking about restricting men from taking Androgel, but estrogen is talked about as a concern for lawmakers, its fucking atrocious.

[demigoddess]

5. because if a man misbehaves,

it is all the woman's fault. She made him do it