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Saturday, August 31, 2024
What a Woman Can Do With Your DNA
There are some simple facts of biology. Men usually produce millions of viable sperm cells on an ongoing basis. A man is able to do so starting in puberty and lasting most of the rest of his life. Sperm cells can leave his body while he's asleep. He doesn't have to have an orgasm to expel sperm cells. New human life takes place inside women. Women get pregnant, men do not.
There are some basic realities of current law. Once a woman has possession of a man's sperm cells, he has lost any control, legally, he has over them.
When a sperm cell leaves a man's body, he loses all control of his own DNA.
Here are the things a woman can do with YOUR sperm cells, men:
I. With any of your semen, she can claim you raped or assaulted her. Then it will be up to the criminal justice system to decide if you're criminally guilty, since DNA evidence will prove you were with her, although it can't prove she consented. Accusations can have impacts on your life even if you're never found guilty in a court of law.
II. She can get pregnant, then have your child slaughtered no matter how much you want that child, no matter how good of a father you'd be. Some of you are twisted enough to be relieved when a woman chooses to have your child slaughtered.
III. She can have your child, birthing someone who gets half of their DNA from you. There are various ways she can do this. She can retrieve your sperm cells from a condom, or from anywhere else (her skin, her mouth) and can insert them into her vagina and get pregnant. She can offer you a condom she knows is defective. She can obtain your sperm cells while you're asleep or unconscious. She can get them from you engaging in intercourse with her, since condoms can fail and if you don't use a condom, you can still release sperm cells into her without having an orgasm inside her. Next...
A. She can announce you knocked her up and stay around and raise your child.
1. You can't be forced to be a good father to that child, but you can be forced to financially support that child, and you can't stop her from telling everyone that's your child, or telling the child you are a deadbeat, neglectful dad. If you are foolish enough to marry (to another woman), your wife's income can also be dinged for child support. You can be forced to support that child all the way through college.
2. If you want to help raise the child, you'll probably have to go to court to get any amount of custody. Even so, you'll have no control over what she does with the child when she has custody. She can trash you, subvert your rules, she can bring through a string of men or women lovers and their kids who are abusive to your child, she can probably even have your son's penis cut off, have him drugged, etc. and it will all be legal.
B. She can keep her pregnancy a secret, or at least keep it a secret from you that you knocked her up, or deny, for the time being, that you're the father. If she keeps the child away from you, after that child grows up, that person can cross your path, or that of one of your siblings or other children, and some strange, messy stuff can result, like accidental incest.
1. She can run off with your child. You can try to stop her, if you even know about this child, but she can take that child across the country or out of the country and make it extremely difficult for you to see, let alone be with, your child.
2. She can announce the child is yours at the worst possible time, and can hit you up for back child support and make a claim on your estate. Imagine you're fifteen years down the line and you get a bill for all of that back child support, just as you're trying to close some big deal.
3. She can adopt the child out, even making money off a private adoption. If you know YOUR child is being put up for adoption, you can try to sue to get some say in the matter, but first you have to establish it is your child, too, for you to even have a say.
4. She can drop the baby off at a "safe surrender" facility and there's not much you can do to stop it, even if you suspect that she was pregnant with your child. I know local safe surrenders make our local news, but if a woman who lived around here drove to a neighboring state to do it, nobody here would ever hear about it. She doesn't have to answer identity questions when she uses this option. If you don't pay close attention to all of the local news where you are, it could happen right under your nose and you'd have no idea. The child would then be adopted by people you've never even heard of.
C. She can disappear after the child is born, immediately or a couple of years down the line, and dump the child on you to raise without help.
So, What Should You Do?
Well, you can avoid women entirely, or at least ever exposing your penis to them.
Treat your sperm cells like they are blank checks, because they are. Don't let them fall into the possession of anyone else, especially not an irrational creature you're just seeing on a casual basis. If you're going to mess around, always use a condom, one that you've been in possession of, not her. When you are finished using it, spoil the contents with tabasco or habanero sauce (there are small bottles you can easily keep with you).
Never donate sperm, either, whether through "reputable" services or otherwise.
Best of all, unless you're absolutely sure you want to have children, are truly prepared to be a good father, and can give a rational, reasonable unselfish explanation as to why you want to have children, get a vasectomy, have it tested at least twice to make sure it took, and shut up about it. If you're not planning to marry a woman, she has no right whatsoever to know you've had a vasectomy, and eventually it can be fun when she comes to you and says "We're pregnant!" and another test verifies you're shooting blanks. When you tell her is up to you, but it is best if you do so with test results and a letter from your attorney. That's even better than when you hear her find out she shouldn't have tried retrieving the contents of the condom.
If a man doesn't want (more) kids, or can't give a rational, coherent, unselfish reason as to why he wants (more) kids, then he shouldn't have them. He should get a vasectomy, and have his ejaculate tested at least twice by reputable labs to ensure that his sperm count is zero. I don't want more kids, and that is what I have done.
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