For more than half a century, women and girls have had the option of controlling their fertility, men and boys still do not enjoy that luxury (the condom is not an equivalent) and now we even have the morning after pill to completely cover all options. Males, young nones in particular, are blind to the fact that there are women who, due to strong peer pressure in that direction, are quite prepared to deliberately become pregnant without discussing with their sexual partner whether that is what he too wants and sometimes even when it is already pretty clear it is not. There are those who would say that it serves the men in question right, but that is getting rather close to an equivalence of saying molestation serves women right. A lot of "accidental" pregnancies are no such thing and the women concerned know full well they are not - but saying that outright is a very strongly policed social taboo. It is long since time that men woke up to the risks they are running - the hormones and the taboo conspire to ensure the same mistake continually occurs. A long term male contraceptive should be developed to create equality between the sexes, vasectomy should be encouraged and subsidised. The phenomenon of pregnancy without full mutual consent would hopefully vanish, and the birthrate would be affected. Equality at last, at least in this department.