Social Consequences of the Pill - Article

[funinthesun]

The Pill makes women pick ?dad? ? not the ?cad? - Women's health- msnbc.com

I thought that people on this forum might find this to be an interesting discussion topic.

[2little]

i would also make a note about bc.

i was on it since i was 17 and in may of this year (i am 24 now) i developed a blood clot in my lower right lung, my doctor told me it was caused by the bc. Now i can't be on bc. (thank god i am married). But the little warnings on the packages are real, and don't say it will never happen to me cause guess what it did happen to me.

[EvilEvilKitten]

This makes perfect sense. Let me explain.

The Pill makes you pregnant hormonally speaking - that is it makes your body think you're pregnant and once that happens, you cannot get pregnant 99.something % of the time.

Pregnant women are concerned about raising her probable children. She becomes more responsible.

Males can be a threat to children; so instead of opting for Mr. Macho Fun Time, she, being responsible, now opts for Mr. Good Hubby & Father.

Thus it would seem that being on the Pill makes women wiser when it comes to choosing husbands.

[Brandye]

Yes, 2little, those warnings are real. Very few women are affected but those that are need to be off hormones no matter how delivered. Your warning is a service to many women here. Consider the IUD without hormones. Most women adjust well.

The article makes eminent good sense and the results have been anticipated by many doctors for years. Messing with the endocrine system always has unintended consequences. We can even infer that being on the pill "protects" us from some potentially exciting and satisfying flings that we may make in the heat of passion with the hormones high. And also the pill may help to keep us on the straight and narrow -looking, but without the passion that causes us to throw ourselves at some "other" guy.

In short, the artificial hormones inducing the pretend pregnancy greatly smooths our passions. It has me looking back a bit. I cohabited with two different men for about two years each and was on the pill for each of those relationships. I stayed pretty faithful and did not have a single tryst with another woman. Then, there is the rest of my life. Without details, I have been less discrete most of my life.

I do not know how much the pill affected all this but the endocrine system affects all aspects of out lives.

[EvilEvilKitten]

So if you want a "Good Wife & Mommy" date women who are on the Pill !?!

LOL

[funinthesun]

I agree with most of what's been presented.

I've dated someone who was multi orgasmic and whose enthusiasm peaked even higher on a monthly basis. When she got on the pill, everything was toned down a few orders of magnitude. Most of the little things that indicated her excitement or arousal level disappeared and her facial expressions during foreplay changed from lustful to caring. After one or two orgasms, she'd say that she was done and that she just wanted me to hold her or cuddle. This was a far cry from the frequent marathons often sparked by simple smiles.
She also only wanted intercourse and kissing each others lips. Any sex act without us being as close as possible lost most appeal to her, including even kisses on her neck. The few days her pill is on the placebo cycle, the rest of her body becomes more responsive again and there's a certain gleam in her eyes and she initiates things again.
I spent a fair amount of time talking to her and seeing if there was any other change in her life that could be causing those reactions, but it was almost a night and day on/off switch.

[Brandye]

Good observations, fun. If you rethink god-knows-how-many posts here, more women complain of reduced libido than any other aspect of the pill. If you extend this to the longer term hormonal systems (shot, implants), you will find even more. The single most common complaint in my surgery, about bcp, is, "I just do not feel much like it any more."

All this is simply anecdotal, not scientific, but it all points in the same direction. I have as yet to hear a woman say, "I just cannot get enough since going on the pill." I do push the ring (although NHC does not supply it) because it puts less hormone in the body and also feel that the IUD is greatly underrated. The IUD without hormones should have no effect on this.