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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
Despite the Daily Mail calling it 'crude' and 'tasteless', I think the ad created by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service is a great idea. Even though the idea of Christmas-themed sex leaves me cold, women should be reminded to stock up on the morning after pill. Don't wait until you wake up, REALLY need it and discover that all of the nearby chemists are shut for the holidays!!
On that note, BPAS will be handing out free emergency contraception 'gift kits' at ten of its largest clinics from Monday. Hey, most of us don't wait until we have a headache to stock up on hangover remedies, so why should birth control be any different?
A very Grinch-like spokesman from the Christian Institute displays shocking ignorance of the way the female anatomy actually works by saying that 'stopping implantation of the embryo is an abortion'. Hello? The morning after pill is a form of birth control that can be taken up to 72 hours after sex, but it will NOT work in in a woman who is already pregnant. It's not the abortion pill!
Someone allowed to comment in an official capacity should really understand the difference between the two.
Comments
It's starting to sound like your advertising on behalf of a pharmacorp, and having a dig at the Daily snail/printers press in the process. Are we to assume all other methods of contraception often available over the counter are no longer of value in this modern world? Why "stock up" on some expensive chalk, when one pack will suffice and even then only needed if all other options have been negated or forgotten? jeese, the "hey guys, lets Stock up on our last resort, just in case it is our only way out", shows an extreme lack of planning, and if this is the case, what makes you think they will head warnings to plan for the expensive last resort rather than use cheaper options, a 33 pence condom, or the Free abstinance route?