Study: The Pill Causes Women to Like Different Men
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"Several previous studies have suggested that women tend to prefer the smell of men who are different from them in a cluster of genes ... which governs the immune system"
"when the women started taking the Pill their preferences shifted towards the scent of men with more similar genes to their own."
"The research also found differences between women in relationships, who tended to prefer odours of men with different MHC genes, and single women, who tended to prefer the smell of MHC-similar men. This could potentially indicate that if women are tempted to have an affair, they are more likely to choose a man with very different genes, to maximise the diversity of any offspring that they might have."
"Women on the Pill tend to prefer macho types with strong jaw lines and prominent cheekbones. However, women who are not taking that form of contraception seem to be more likely to go for more sensitive types of men without traditionally masculine features."
If these findings are all true, how many things that have happened over the last 30-40 years would it explain? Sicklier children, cultural attitudes towards men, rising divorce rates, etc. Wow.
1) No woman would believe you if you said you were on it (remember we are talking about initial stages of attraction here) 2) Society has ingrained prejudices against men dosing themselves with synthetic hormones in support of lifestyle choices
We went through 4 different contraceptive pills, each switch taking over a month. They had obnoxious side effects: made her feel irritable, cut her sex drive down to nothing, made her feel not attracted to me, and made her feel like she "wasn't herself." It was horrible and it did test our relationship. The pill is not really an option for her, and I wish I had an option other than a vasecctomy.
(We currently use condom & foam, which ruins a lot of the spontaneity, and which isn't quite effective enough for her tastes.)
I went through this for a year, and apparently a lot of our married friends have too. I think that this particular side-effect of the pill is more common than drug companies would like to admit. Worse, I think it's been attributed to female nature instead of recognized as a side effect of this far-too-common drug.
there's also other non-oral options such as the Evra patch. Because it's through the skin the hormonal dosage is a bit lower than the pill. Other options include the Nueva ring and a three-month per shot injection thing, altho that improves her chances of getting osteoporosis.
Yeah unfortunately there's not a lot of other options other than the chemical approach. But I vaguely remember reading from somewhere that transdermal methods (like the patch) and injection methods has more direct access to the bloodstream without having to go through the digestive tract, and hence can be administered in lower dosage than oral methods. IANADoctor, obviously.
Also there is research into non-hormonal contraception for men.
My last girlfriend reacted badly to every BC pill she took. I was 24 and 180 pounds, while she was 20 and 115 pounds. Dosing drugs in an adolescent is a pharmacologically hard problem, especially when the drugs are hormonal, and the fact that I was much larger also made me a better candidate for drug experimentation. If there had been a male Pill, I would have readily taken it.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-19960...
It's interesting that the pill, which intentionally tampers with a woman's reproductive system, also tampers with what a woman finds attractive in a potential mate, sans the intention of mating for reproduction.