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wuchan wrote:people use condoms in japan?
Coligny wrote:wuchan wrote:people use condoms in japan?
people have seks in Japan ?
Coligny wrote:Good for my end of the business...
Kanchou wrote:Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?
Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Kanchou wrote:Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?
Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.
It's not about access, it's about years of anti pill propaganda that makes people afraid to take it. Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so (doctors can actually prescribe you more than one month but most won't because they're scumbags who wan't to get money from the gubment).
Kanchou wrote:Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?
Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.
GomiGirl wrote:And they tell patients that taking the pill will most likely lead to weight gain.
That goes down like a cup of cold sick with young fashionable girlies.
yanpa wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Kanchou wrote:Clearly ladies need better access to the pill... notice how you never see any advertisements for it?
Clearly it's a better than an alternative to the old swish 'n suck.
It's not about access, it's about years of anti pill propaganda that makes people afraid to take it. Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so (doctors can actually prescribe you more than one month but most won't because they're scumbags who wan't to get money from the gubment).
Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Plus, the way you have to visit a doctor here every month to refill a prescription makes it a pain in the ass to do so
Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for a chronic condition such as insulin for a diabetic. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
yanpa wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)
Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)
Ah, maybe that's what it is. Since the pill isn't covered by NHS they don't have to stick to the three months or less rule. The thing is most doctors do anyway out of habit. I know, as Taro pointed out, that they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.
Russell wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah, Japanese doctors give only one month's worth of prescriptions. It is possible (but extremely rare) to get 3 months of a prescription under Japanese health insurance for chronic condition such as insulin. One year is impossible under Japanese health insurance rules, so maybe Mrs. Yanpa is paying for the pills totally out-of-pocket.Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
I guess she is then. I didn't know they were available under health insurance. (Are condoms?)
Ah, maybe that's what it is. Since the pill isn't covered by NHS they don't have to stick to the three months or less rule. The thing is most doctors do anyway out of habit. I know, as Taro pointed out, that they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.
You take the pill?!?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:yanpa wrote:
Mrs. Yanpa has no difficulty in getting hold of a year's supply
I believe that's illegal.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Russell wrote:You take the pill?!?
Yes. That's why my boobs are so big.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:..they can give out up to three months for chronic conditions even if you are paying under NHS but most doctors won't. It's fucking annoying as hell as I have to get a prescription filled every month. I wonder what they do if you have to spend an extended time abroad on a business trip.
Coligny wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Russell wrote:You take the pill?!?
Yes. That's why my boobs are so big.
That would explain the PMSing...
Kanchou wrote:The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.
I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).
Kanchou wrote:The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.
I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).
Kanchou wrote:Sort of how a lot of laws get in the way of someone setting up a rice farm big enough to make rice with prices competitive with foreign-made rice. (apparently it's very hard to buy farmland if you don't already own a significant amount)
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Kanchou wrote:The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.
I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).
That all sounds well and good and it tugs at my centrist heartstrings on days when my mood makes me lean to the left but the evidence doesn't support that theory. In Western European countries where daycare is plentiful and state subsidized and companies are required to give generous maternity and paternity leave by law birthrates are also extremely low. Meanwhile developing countries where people can't afford to feed themselves let alone the 8 babies they crank out and where both parents do backbreaking labor all day long have extremely high birthrates. The main reason that people in the developed world don't have babies is because it doesn't fit their lifestyle, they have better access to birth control, they understand the concept of family planning, and they don't have the same level of social pressure or any practical reason having lots of kids. Plus in those developed nations the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale tend have more babies.
Kanchou wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Kanchou wrote:The lack of babies isn't because of contraception and abortion, it's because there aren't enough jobs, so people can't afford to raise kids on just a man's salary, and women can't afford to work because there aren't enough daycare centers. So they don't have kids.
I can see how that problem could support itself... but you know, Japanese laws often get in the way of things (in this case the licensing and qualifications required to build and staff a daycare center).
That all sounds well and good and it tugs at my centrist heartstrings on days when my mood makes me lean to the left but the evidence doesn't support that theory. In Western European countries where daycare is plentiful and state subsidized and companies are required to give generous maternity and paternity leave by law birthrates are also extremely low. Meanwhile developing countries where people can't afford to feed themselves let alone the 8 babies they crank out and where both parents do backbreaking labor all day long have extremely high birthrates. The main reason that people in the developed world don't have babies is because it doesn't fit their lifestyle, they have better access to birth control, they understand the concept of family planning, and they don't have the same level of social pressure or any practical reason having lots of kids. Plus in those developed nations the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale tend have more babies.
Good point, but we're talking about a difference of a couple tenths over the current birthrate, not having several times as many kids.
Yes, birth control and family planning are why people have the option to not have kids when they don't have to, or when they can't afford to (within a given economy). I'm only suggesting that the birth rate would be back above the sustainable rate if a few tweaks to the current situation were made.
Also, the French birthrate is just over 2, versus the Japanese birthrate of 1.39 (compared a sustainable rate of 2.05), so statistically speaking, to suggest the policies aren't having an effect is like suggesting that the Japanese are just a tall as white Europeans because their the average height is only three inches shorter.
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