Like
a bad soap opera or the result of a woman who’s clock is not just
ticking but sounding a desperate and deafening alarm, there is,
supposedly, a trend afoot of getting pregnant “accidentally on
purpose.”
The Times of London recently
published a piece on women in their thirties who knowingly get knocked
up by unsuspecting bedmates, their de facto sperm donors. This segment
of baby-lusting ladies are allegedly having unprotected sex with men who would be “good father material. But they aren't looking for any paternal participation, just their initial deposit, the men's sperm. The Times interviews a 35 year-old editor who states, “In the past, with other boyfriends, I had been much more careful, but I was in my early thirties and my biological clock was in overdrive. I really, really wanted a baby, and I didn’t have any time to waste. My daughter’s father was clever and good-looking, and I suppose it seemed safer to have an affair with him than a one-night stand. And it was cheaper and a lot more fun than doing it in a clinic…He put pressure on me not to have the baby, but for me, it wasn’t an accident.“
Jezebel stated: “It also seems like a bit of a sexist urban legend, the idea of aggressive, baby-hungry young professionals.” Flashbacks of Fatal Attraction, anyone?
Via: Jezebel
