Praising the Pill

NBC evening news devoted much airtime this week to the fiftieth anniversary of the birth control pill. Nancy Snyderman, NBC's hapless chief medical correspondent, even speculated on the coming creation of a similar prophylaxis for men in lauding the virtue of this great aid to promiscuity, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and the overall decline of values and morals for our nation and the world. So the pill that facilitated women behaving just as badly as men who for generations had acted like satyrs is now a grand creation in advancing equality. If you do not count antibiotic resistant venereal disease, the chronic affliction of herpes, and that little problem of HIV, as the buffoons at NBC seem to feel merits little mention, nymphomania has become a dinosaur media virtue.