Taking hormonal contraceptives can make sex less pleasurable according to new research. This can be with lowered libido, less lubrication, and even reduced orgasm. In my experience, it doesn’t just make sex less pleasurable it can make life less pleasurable! I was on the combined pill ten years ago for about a year and I ...
If you want to tap into your right brain, maybe it’s time that you went on the birth control pill. Women who are on oral contraceptives think less with their “left brain” and more with their “right brain,” according to researchers at the University of California. The reproductive hormones linked to women’s strong “left brain” ...
We all know the age old problem that keeps many away from the birth control pill: weight gain. But this “fact” is soon to be proved a myth by Ingela Lindh. Lindh compared birth control pill poppers to other non-pill-prescribed females within their age group from ages 19 to 34. The pill-poppers did not gain ...
Oh joy! Yet another study has come out damning the birth control pill. This time the report says that the pill causes jealousy, and those with higher levels of estrogen cause the most problems. Researchers surveyed 275 women on various kinds of pills for at least three months between the ages of 17 and 35. Topics ...
Most women wouldn’t trust a man to take a birth control pill. And most men don’t want to deal with the hormonal side effects (moodiness, lower libido) of taking a pill. These have been the most significant stumbling blocks to finding a male contraceptive. Luckily scientists have now found a simple solution to these problems!
Dear Madame X, I’d like to know about which contraception methods (except for sterilization) are most effective? I also wonder what their potential effects on libido (for chemical methods) and on sexual pleasure (for physical methods) are. How likely would unprotected sex result in actual pregnancy? -Always Good To Know Dear Always Good To Know, ...
New research shows that women who take the pill are less likely to die from a range of diseases. This is good news for women worried about the effect the hormones might have on them because a lot of these effects turn out to be positive. They found that women on the pill are less likely ...
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