[natterings] there are no babies on the battlestar galactica

BIRTH CONTROL, PEOPLE.

So, I love smut as much as the next person, but I'm having some problems with the fact that apparently no one in the fleet uses birth control.

leda13 thinks that the women in the military get the suppressant shot because PMS x howevermany women x cramped quarters [equals] a hell they don't want to deal with. And I can deal with that, that's cool, but what about all the other women? The civilians on the other ships? It's all very well for the president to start telling them that they have to start having babies, but really, whilst they're still living on ships, having food and water problems, and running from the cylons, that's perhaps a tad unreasonable. But they're still going to be having of the sex and, look, I don't want to be the negative one to bring it up, but it's wartime, there's probably some deviant behaviour (ie, rape) going on.

Obviously, everything is going to run out (along with tampons, OMG, I fear for the civilians). And I bet that there isn't a condom courier ship in the fleet. Just, look, the thought makes me really happy, but no.

So, hilarious nuggets who like to talk a lot, what are they doing about contraceptives?

And, if you don't agree about the suppressents, what are they using instead?



this post sponsored by the reams of crappy fic i read today whilst avoiding working on my thesis, and also by leda13's brilliant smutty piece 'Good Guys (Sometimes) Do Bad Things' parts one and two.