I agree with you on those points Jam, but those are all limitations or should I say double-standards society has imposed on us. I personally don't let that stop me....I've stopped caring about "what people think and/or say" a looong time ago
I'm raising my children by myself and yes, from time to time I get pissed about the fact that all the responsibility falls on me, but then I think about it and that I get all the REWARDS as well. So forget him - his loss.
Contraceptives - yeah - that's an easy one: wear your rubber or don't get none. Period.
Taking the shirt off....OK....
I could take that to another level, being from Europe, but....I'm wearing as little as possible in the summer time anyway, so that's how you get around that (I don't like tanlines). But yeah...why is it that we can't walk around with our shirts off???