Birth Control

In *We Want to Live*, Aajonus listed birth control pills alongside spermicides, chemical lubricants, and chemical douches as substances that are absorbed into the uterine walls and cause specific, identifiable damage. The damage he named was poor mucus formation and poor mucus production, and damage to the ovaries and to the quality and production of ovum. These are not described as temporary or minor side effects but as a direct consequence of chemical absorption into reproductive tissue.

The mucus formation problem is presented as a fertility issue. When mucus formation is disrupted, the conditions necessary for conception and healthy reproductive cycling are compromised. Aajonus treated this as correctable through dietary intervention, specifically through daily consumption of smoothies at a particular frequency and duration, combined with a raw diet that includes raw meat.

Aajonus's rejection of birth control pills cannot be fully understood without his broader framework on synthetic hormones. He was explicit that all hormone and hormone replacement drugs are made of laboratory chemicals, and that so-called natural hormones have no relationship to the hormones produced in the human body. He described the best-case scenario for these preparations as being derived from hydrogenated vegetable oils, which he equated structurally with plastic, combined with chemically treated proteins.

His view was that hormonal glands, including the ovaries, are designed for emergency use, not daily supplementation or suppression. The gonads, in his framework, produce estrogen and testosterone primarily for reproduction of cells, for building ovum and sperm, and not as a daily energy source or as the basis of ongoing physiological maintenance. Introducing synthetic hormonal compounds into this system on a daily basis, as birth control pills require, was in his view a direct interference with a system that should be regulated by food quality and not by pharmaceutical chemistry.

He was also consistent in stating that the pharmaceutical industry's measurement standards for hormonal levels are manufactured constructs designed to create a market for medication, not genuine biological benchmarks. The decision about what hormone level is "normal" was, in his framing, made by pharmaceutical companies to define deficiency and thereby sell product.

Aajonus stated in *We Want to Live* that the ovum and mucus problems caused by birth control pills and related chemical substances could be corrected. The protocol he gave was drinking two smoothies daily, five days per week, for six months, or alternatively one smoothie daily, five days per week, for up to two years, combined with a healthy raw diet that includes raw meat. He did not specify the exact composition of the smoothies in the passages provided, but the duration of the correction protocol, which he extended to as long as two years at the lower-frequency schedule, indicates that he regarded the damage as significant and slow to reverse.

Foods and substances he identified as additionally interfering with mucus and ovum production and quality included coffee, including decaffeinated coffee, caffeine in other forms, aspirin, sodas, teas, horseradish, and mustard. Caffeine received additional mention for disturbing the swim of spermatozoa, making it relevant to both female and male reproductive function.

Rather than pills, Aajonus recommended a set of non-chemical, mechanical, and food-based approaches. His stated position was that birth control is fundamentally the man's responsibility, not the woman's, because it is the man's sperm that causes pregnancy. He wrote that a man who wants certainty must not ejaculate inside a woman and should not rely on anyone else's calculations of fertile times, including the woman's own.

For women who could not trust a man to withhold ejaculation, he recommended using a diaphragm or cervical cap during the eight days before ovulation and during ovulation itself, totaling ten days. He described this as appropriate when a woman needed to take the matter into her own hands.

For situations where birth control had not been practiced during the fertile window, he recommended douching with apple cider vinegar immediately after intercourse. He also described a food-based option: blending six tablespoons of fresh papaya seeds with half a cup of good drinking water and drinking this combination one to three hours before sex or within twenty minutes after sex, stating that this usually prevents pregnancy.

For increasing sensation when using a prophylactic, he recommended lubricating the penis with unheated, above 96 degrees Fahrenheit fermented coconut oil, or peanut oil, or stone-pressed olive oil, applied to the penis and to the outside of the condom after it is on the penis. He stated this feels the closest to not wearing anything.

Aajonus grouped birth control pills with spermicides and chemical lubricants in his discussion of uterine wall absorption and reproductive tissue damage. The alternative he endorsed for lubrication was unheated fermented coconut oil, specifically noted for not causing side effects, as distinct from chemical lubricants that he placed in the same damage category as birth control pills. This distinction reflects his general principle that primal, unprocessed animal and plant fats are protective to tissue, while laboratory-derived or chemically processed substances cause tissue damage regardless of their intended function.