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ONE JAB DOES IT). REASONS Heroin is like a loving hug, a long embrace of emotional security. Methodone is a longer, but less satisfying embrace, like the hug of a distant relative. S cientists throughout the world continue to seek ways to prevent unwanted people making untimely appearances. The pill, diaphragms, condoms, coils, moon cycles, herbs, the Billings Method, abortion and now a jab; the list of methods is T think my junky behaviour has been that of an immature growing as we seek better, safer contraception. €. child. It's as though every hit 1 had was a way of punishing Dr. Peter Griffin of the World Health Organisation is conducting people for not loving me enough, or not paying enough atterl- trials on 30 Adelaide women with a vaccine that prevents pregnancy , tion. It was as though every taste was revenge on my parents for up to two years. So far the results are good - although potential ¥ gA or friends for failing me somehow. side-effects are as yet unknown. I fell into a cynical denial of all higher motivations, con- signing them to the same pit that held Santa Claus and the MALE CONTRACEPTIVE Easter Bunny. R _ . A , » The first time it happened, I soon woke upto myself, dried esearchers at Monash University and Prince Henry's Hospital in out and got my life back together. Melbourne have developed a sensitive method of detecting the Acoupleof years later, when a true love left me, Ibegan the hormone inhibin . This alters both male and female fertility by punishment program again. Punishing myself for not being regulating the hormone responsible for ovulation and sperm produc- + good enough. Wallowing in self-pity and negativity tion (follicle stimulating hormone - F.S.H.). If used as a male - contraceptive it could stop sperm production without affecting male libido. The body produces tiny amounts of inhibin. It has been difficult to manufacture, but Biotechnology Australia has purified the hormone and can clone the human genes which produce it. Genetic engineering techniques can produce large amounts relatively cheaply. Artificial wombs and knowing if you’re pregnant the next mom- ing are not far away. A research team headed by Dr. Brian Baldo at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital has scored an international breakthrough which allows a hormone-like substance called PAF to be detected. PAF is released almost immediately after fertilization and its production is necessary for establishing pregnancy. ie» Heroin is a substitute for self-esteem. The classic "dependent personality’ includes anyone who feels at all inadequate. It fills their emotional vacuum. Who needs self-esteem when they've got heroin, or even methadone? It's nice and safe wrapped in cotton wool, isn't it? “All right then!" I thought. “The world’s a mean, unfair A connection could also be established between deficiencies in and nasty place. Well, I'll show the world just how mean this hormone and infertility. It can be detected less than 24 hours after unfair and nasty I can be!” j conception. And I was. PAF has a wide range of biological effects and is linked with a Young women, slow drugs and fast money; at first there host of diseases. The breakthrough is expected to lead to new ¢F" was lots of money. But fell from favour with my supplier and diagnostic techniques for heart disease, stomach ulcers, asthma, 4 soon consumed all my assets. I becamea street junkie, scroung- rheumatoid arthritis, septic shock and other illnesses. y ing for my daily drugs. , ARTIFICIAL Womss rd When I had no money left, my health was suspect, pretty women were interested no more and I was thieving and scam- Within thenext 25 years we may see artificial wombs used to grow ming for every sugar-tainted taste I could get, a young girl did a full-term pregnancy. The two ends of the scale are coming together come looking for me. - babies can live in incubators to 20 weeks (half way through Years had flown. The young girl wasa daughterof minel'd gestation) and scientists can grow an embryo in the laboratory for at never met. She wanted to meet her father. Me. A scumbag least 9 days - some say weeks. , Street junkie, unnaturally thin, somehow sallow and grotty. Although sounding like science fiction, the implications are A sorry sight. complex and real. Women about to undergo chemotherapy or radio- Iknew then what I must have looked like to her eyes, and therapy could have her eggs removed and banked (egg banks will I had no expectation that she, either, would love me for m yself be a reality In two to three years); women having but she did. It made all the difference in the world tome. hysterectomies, working in hazardous environments (chemicals or With an altered attitude, my life changed. It's obvious radiation) or with disfunctional uteruses or none at all could benefit. that if you understand the problem, then you're half-way to We are seeking new ways to have babies and new waysofs ave solving it. Try it. It's important. babies and new ways of preventing them. While many scientists and ri Fs me oi « Seand law F aa doctors devise ways to interfere with nature, She is a en AW make with yourself inside your head screw up your unto Her own. © - INISSA be”. whole life. o0 12 © 1987- by Alan C. Salt Nexus New Times Two Don't let those little subconscious “deals' you ONE JAB DOES IT). REASONS Heroin is like a loving hug, a long embrace of emotional security. Methodone is a longer, but less satisfying embrace, like the hug of a distant relative. S cientists throughout the world continue to seek ways to prevent unwanted people making untimely appearances. The pill, diaphragms, condoms, coils, moon cycles, herbs, the Billings Method, abortion and now a jab; the list of methods is AI think my junky behaviour has been that of an immature growing as we seek better, safer contraception. €. child. It's as though every hit I had was a way of punishing Dr. Peter Griffin of the World Health Organisation is conducting people for not loving me enough, or not paying enough atterl~- trials on 30 Adelaide women with a vaccine that prevents pregnancy , tion. It was as though every taste was revenge on my parents or friends for failing me somehow. I fell into a cynical denial of all higher motivations, con- signing them to the same pit that held Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. The first time it happened, I soon woke upto myself, dried out and got my life back together. Acouple of years later, when a true love left me, I began the punishment program again. Punishing myself for not being good enough. Wallowing in self-pity and negativity for up to two years. So far the results are good - although potential ¥ side-effects are as yet unknown. MALE CONTRACEPTIVE Researchers at Monash University and Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne have developed a sensitive method of detecting the hormone inhibin . This alters both male and female fertility by regulating the hormone responsible for ovulation and sperm produc- * tion (follicle stimulating hormone - F.S.H.). If used as a male contraceptive it could stop sperm production without affecting male libido. The body produces tiny amounts of inhibin. It has been difficult to manufacture, but Biotechnology Australia has purified the ¥ hormone and can clone the human genes which produce it. Genetic engineering techniques can produce large amounts relatively ce cheaply. Artificial wombs and knowing if you’re pregnant the next mom- ing are not far away. A research team headed by Dr. Brian Baldo at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital has scored an international breakthrough which allows a hormone-like substance called PAF to be detected. PAF is released almost immediately after fertilization and its production is necessary for establishing pregnancy. Heroin is a substitute for self-esteem. The classic "dependent personality’ includes anyone who feels at all inadequate. It fills their emotional vacuum. Who needs self-esteem when they've got heroin, or even methadone? It's nice and safe wrapped in cotton wool, isn't it? “All right then!” I thought. “The world’s a mean, unfair A connection could also be established between deficiencies in and nasty place. Well, I'll show the world just how mean this hormone and infertility. It can be detected less than 24 hours after unfair and nasty I can be!” J conception. And I was. PAF has a wide range of biological effects and is linked with a Young women, slow drugs and fast money; at first there host of diseases. The breakthrough is expected to lead to new #7" waslots of money. But fell from favour with my supplier and diagnostic techniques for heart disease, stomach ulcers, asthma, § soon consumed all my assets. I becamea street junkie, scroung- rheumatoid arthritis, septic shock and other illnesses. y ing for my daily drugs. / ARTIFICIAL Womss rd When I had no money left, my health was suspect, pretty women were interested no more and I was thieving and scam- Within thenext 25 years we may see artificial wombs used to grow ming for every sugar-tainted taste I could get, a young girl did a full-term pregnancy. The two ends of the scale are coming together come looking for me. - babies can live in incubators to 20 weeks (half way through Years had flown. The young girl wasa daughter of minel'd gestation) and scientists can grow an embryo in the laboratory for at never met. She wanted to meet her father. Me. A scumbag least 9 days - some say weeks. , Street junkie, unnaturally thin, somehow sallow and grotty. Although sounding like science fiction, the implications are A sorry sight. complex and real. Women about to undergo chemotherapy or radio- Iknew then what I must have looked like to her eyes, and therapy could have her eggs removed and banked (egg banks will I had no expectation that she, either, would love me for m yself be a reality In two to three years); women having but she did. It made all the difference in the world tome. hysterectomies, working in hazardous environments (chemicals or With an altered attitude, my life changed. It's obvious radiation) or with disfunctional uteruses or none at all could benefit. that if you understand the problem, then you're half-way to We are seeking new ways to have babies and new waysofs ave solving it. Try it. It's important. babies and new ways of preventing them. While many scientists and , F mT < sound law P ae doctors devise ways to interfere with nature, She is a aa aw make with yourself inside your head screw up your unto Her own. CO - INESSA be. Whole life. o0 Don't let those little subconscious ‘deals’ you an Wee Alaw OM Cale unto Her own. © REE Eee MALE CONTRACEPTIVE © 1987- by Alan C. Salt Nexus New Times Two