Rivertowns for Reproductive Rights Book Club at Picture Book

Join us forour second Rivertowns for Reproductive Rights Book Club at Picture Book to discuss Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair.

n Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America.

In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for preventing pregnancy.

We'll meet on the HudCo couches for a community discussion, fueled by cheese and beverages from Bloomy Cheese & Provisions. Your ticket helps cover food costs and the rest will be donated to NYAAF.

Picture Book is donating 10% of all Ejaculate Responsibly book sales to NYAAF, and you can choose to add the book onto the ticket, or buy directly on Picture Book's website to avoid additional fees. It is also available as an audiobook on Libro.fm, or as an EBook from Bookshop.