Of Good Report AND Praiseworthy

Every Sunday to get out of writing a full blog entry, I recommend a product or idea that I've found helpful in my life. While thumbing through a magazine yesterday, I was reminded of an item that I rarely think about, but it sure makes my sex life a whole lot better and few American women use it. It's the IUD and if you've had a baby and haven't tried it afterwards, then you're missing out! I love mine so much that when the doctor took it out so I could get pregnant with our second child, I told him I wanted to keep it as a necklace charm I loved it so much. It's over 99.8 percent effective (higher than sterlization), completely reversible, and once it's in, you don't even know it's there. So, if you're tired of the werewolf effects of birth control or other hormone methods (my IUD is nonhormonal) and you're a mom like me who can't ever remember all her kids names, let alone remember to take a pill, then try an IUD and free your mind of one more hassle. Your celestial sex partner will thank you for it!

A Sinful Snip

A week back I saw a news story that the LDS church handbook had been put online through www.wikileaks.org Being the curious chick I am, I had to read it, yep, the whole thing. Let me just say I never knew baptizing “trannies” was an issue (that would explain a few people in the ward), but basically that’s as exciting as it got until I hit page 197 out of 198. Here’s the passage:

Surgical Sterilization (Including Vasectomy)
The Church strongly discourages surgical sterilization as an elective form of birth control. It should be considered only if (1) medical conditions seriously jeopardize life or health or (2) birth defects or serious trauma have rendered a person mentally incompetent and not responsible for his or her actions. Such conditions must be determined by competent medical judgment and in accordance with law. Even then, the persons responsible for this decision should consult with each other and with their bishop and should receive divine confirmation of their decision through prayer.

We currently have two children and day to day, depending on how crazy things have been, the number of children my husband and I want changes, but one thing never has- that when we decide we’re done having babies, he will graciously submit himself to a vasectomy. My body will have been through enough, so tag--- he’s now it. Well, come to find out it’s pretty much classified as a sin since I don’t have a medical condition unless you count temporary insanity resulting from the serious trauma of finding (1) a small child has wiped red lipstick on my date night dress or (2) done some disgusting business in the toliet and left it unflushed in a non-airconditioned house the whole week we were on vacation. "Honey, why does the house smell like the sewer? Oh, that's why!"

So, what do you think? Is it worth possibly falling short of the celestial kingdom to have one sinful snip that results in decades of carefree sex?