More Than Fifty Years On

from when women were first issued the contraceptive pill I wonder at it.
The conception of millions of children has relatively painlessly cancelled
and for both men and women the Freudian line 'anatomy is destiny'
has been broken beyond repair. But what has become destiny instead?
Romance and sexual fantasies continue to be written and revised.
And women now claim a social autonomy
that was once exclusive to rich men,
and with that their choices gained glitz and glamour.
The more our choices have expanded
the more we have to be seen to have our cake,
and then watched to make sure we eat it, particularly
when it tastes of nothing, it makes us fat and then leaves us
hungry ill and in debt. That is our consumer society.
The freedom to bond, but not breed remains to be cherished.
But for that we have to ask, and expect, much much less.