The Daily Mail has written an article about women claiming that using the Pill turned them into lesbians, and many scientists agree that this could be true.
“From weight gain to nausea, breast tenderness, and menstrual cycle changes, the Pill has a long list of side effects.
But a number of women have spoken out about what is probably the most unlikely side effect yet — they say the oral contraceptives turned them gay.
While it may sound outlandish, there is some evidence the combined and progestin-only oral contraceptives can alter how women perceive attractiveness.
The medication works by suppressing the body's natural production of sex hormones and replaces them with synthetic versions.
These altered hormones may re-wire brain circuits related to love and sex, according to Dr Sarah Hill, a psychologist who specializes in women's health at Texas Christian University.
Dr. Hill told the Daily Mail: ‘The way that our hormones affect our brain is by nudging our preferences or behavior this way or that way. Sometimes it might nudge you into a direction that wouldn't necessarily agree with what your brain would do outside of that’.
Scientists have also picked up on anecdotal accounts and have launched several studies into the claim.
Researchers from the University of Stirling in the UK looked at whether women might choose different more or less masculine-looking partners when they are on the pill than they would have chosen off of it.
The 2013 study recruited 55 straight women and used a computer program in a lab that allowed them to manipulate human features in photographs of different men and women.
They could adjust a myriad of facial features such as jawlines and cheekbone prominence to make people in the photos look more masculine or feminine.
After that first session, 18 women were given a prescription for a daily birth control pill while the rest were not. Both groups returned three months later to run a similar attractiveness test.
When the researchers compared the two sets of images created by the non pill-takers at each test session, they found no differences between the faces they created.
But they found that women who had gone on the pill preferred images of males with less masculine features than their non pill-taking counterparts.
A 2011 study of around 2,000 women, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, explored sexual satisfaction and partner attraction among women who met their partners when they were on the pill versus those who only started using birth control after starting the relationship.
Results showed women who met their partners when they were on the pill scored lower in both measures. They also rated their partner's body and sexual adventurousness lower than the control group.
However, another study published in 2018 by University of Glasgow researchers found that women’s preferences for masculine faces were generally stable regardless of whether they took the pill or were ovulating.
Over 500 heterosexual women were recruited by the UK researchers to look at 10 pairs of randomly selected male faces at the same time and were told to pick which one they were more attracted to.
They also were told to rate each photo’s level of attractiveness. Saliva samples were taken at each testing session over a span of roughly two years to measure the women’s hormone levels.
The facial features of the men in the images were slightly manipulated to look more feminine or masculine such as by sharpening the cheekbones. Testing sessions asked women to consider which type of partner they would prefer for short-term as well as long-term relationships.
Experts in the field of evolutionary psychology have long held that changes in women's sex hormones play an important role in partner attraction and what a woman looks for in a mate.
Hormones flip billions of switches on and off in cells throughout your body, influencing how a person interacts with the world. But scientists are still untangling how these influence women's behavior, and how much a person's sexuality can be swayed by these changes.
Dr. Hill told the Daily Mail: ‘There's certainly some evidence that goes in both directions with some research finding that there's no relationship between birth control pill use, and then later changes in partner attraction after you discontinue the pill'.
About 14 percent of American women ages 15 to 49 are on a hormonal birth control pill. Millions of women rely on it for its effectiveness not only at preventing pregnancy, but also for mood and physical symptom regulation that comes with a monthly menstrual cycle.
In a follow-up to the 2013 study, the researchers considered the participating women’s actual male romantic partners and wanted to determine their previous findings’ application in the real world.
They convened a sample of men that women on and off the pill matched up with and found that women on the pill not only preferred less masculine facial features, they were also more likely to choose such men as partners”. -Cassidy Morrison, Daily Mail
The reality is that the availability of sex contraception has had deleterious effects that have altered society in profound ways that go well beyond the sexual revolution.
While many detractors of the sexual liberation movement forewarned of the societal dangers caused by the promotion of gigolo behavior in men and fostering of a future generation of “loose” women who are less inclined to settle down and become mothers as their mothers and grandmothers were at their age, it still comes as somewhat of a revelation that an increasing percentage of women have abandoned the pursuit of hypergamy and acquiesced to a lifestyle of lesbianism instead.
This phenomenon all but ensures that as long as society permits women to control their birth rates, it will experience a demographic decline of the sort that will enable societies that control women to expand and eventually replace the expiring, demographically-challenged populations.
Only in a transgressive post-Christian society could the propagation of the human species be seen as a cross to bear rather than a source of fulfillment. Even with roughly one-fifth of adult women being dependent on antidepressant medications.
Female contraception has been outlawed in the past and it will be outlawed again in places that realize the societal price for replacing children with unassimilated foreigners is too high.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer addressed this very topic when he stated, “We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants”.
Sigmund Freud famously asked what women want. Judging by the results of modernity, the feminist answer seems to be barren, unmarried, lesbian chic, and outnumbered by foreign peoples who are more willing to sire offspring than they are.