Pills 'n' thrills and...oh shit this is awful news

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=641452

"The contraceptive pill, celebrated for liberating women's sexuality, may do the opposite, according to American researchers who have warned that women who take the Pill may experience a permanent decline in sexual desire."

KHAAAN!

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that'd explain a lot for me :/

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"The contraceptive pill, celebrated for liberating women's sexuality..."

when was this written, like 1973? didn't everyone know this?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1973 ain't that long ago, i was born then. N_RQ i was in a good mood til then!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

why can't women's lib also equal women getting on with life and not being hedonistic horndogs like their baby-boomer parents?

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

life can be fun, too, you know.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hormonal methods of contraception are becoming more popular; there is growing interest in the contraceptive patch and the intrauterine system - a coil coated with the hormone progesterone. "This suggests women are not having a problem with these methods," the FPA spokes- woman said.

Wait, I was under the impression that these affect your hormones the same way as the pill does - am I to understand they're actually a safer choice?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

you're to understand what the military-pharmaceutical complex tells you to understand.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

please tell me the IUD isn't coming back.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

If this thread is to judge, it may be so. Though the horror story at the end of the thread might scare some off it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 26 May 2005 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This is news?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 26 May 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

This is news?

Well, women are told one of the side-effects of taking some types of the pill is reduced libido - but I think it is assumed that libido will return when they stop using it. This study suggests the reduction is non-reversible, rather than remporary.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My best friend has been on the pill for a long time and she bones like a zealot.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it's about the exact match between individual chemistry and the pill's individual chemistry, i think. but being on medication for 30-odd years is bound to have effects whatever else happens

― N_RQ, Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The IUS has a very low dose of progesterone, works a treat for moi.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My best friend has been on the pill for a long time and she bones like a zealot.

I thought zealots were too busy for sex. Unless she's a zealot for sex, in which case I salute her.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

she worships at the altar of booty

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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