Can I ask my boyfriend to help pay for birth control?
Suddenly I’m feeling like a landlord of my vagina.
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In 2015, a study by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that products marketed towards women and girls tended to be more expensive than the same product for boys and men. In some cases, a product simply being the color pink made it more expensive. Thus, the term “pink tax” was coined.
The largest discrepancies were found between men and women’s personal hygiene products. But women aren’t just paying more for the same items as men—they are also buying additional items, like tampons, to maintain the base level of health and hygiene afforded to men for far less.
And then there’s birth control. Birth control, while something that can be achieved with a condom that either men or women can buy, is most effective in the form of the pill or an IUD. Those two methods can only be used—and endured—by women.
Sure, she could just opt for condoms. They are far less expensive (not to mention invasive), but they also mean taking a gamble on the exponentially more expensive possibilities of having an abortion or raising a full child should they result in an unexpected pregnancy. What if men, instead, helped shoulder the financial burden?
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