Birth Control is a Labor-Saving Device Part 2.
The organizers of Metropolitan Torontos Birth Control Week took as their theme male responsibility in family planning. Of the 90 registrants at the conference fewer than 10 were physicians. This was the case although the conference had been promoted to the entire profession in Ontario. The organizers were not particularly concerned by this indicating that the conference was not necessarily aimed at males but at those working with them. Some hope was provided in a seminar entitled "Male Responsibility in Natural Family Planning". Theresa and Kerry Daly members of the Serena Organization have been using the symptothermal technique successfully for 4 years themselves. They say that this fact is a big plus in teaching for they can prove that the method works. This couple has been giving group classes to couples at St. Michaels along with doing couple-to-couple teaching from their home. Kerry reports a fair degree of reluctance in the males at 1st but a changeover occurrs in the class. The Dalys identify dispelling myths as 1 of their most important functions. The Dalys encourage men to participate by charting the temperature preparing the thermometer and so forth. Reinforcement is given for the idea that the period requiring abstinence does not mean abstaining from sexual contact suggesting that it isnt "intercourse or nothing". It appears that the key to male responsibility may be knowledge.