The birth control pill was formally approved as an oral contraceptive by the FDA on June 23, 1960. More than 60 years later and according to the latest SEC survey, 75% of Spanish women of childbearing age use contraceptive methods and of these, 17% choose the pill and 6.7% use the IUD.
Any hormonal method has consequences for our body. In fact, the package insert for a birth control pill is bigger than the blanket I have in the living room to see the best Netflix series.
According to this study, its use is directly related to depression, but the possible side effects of using the pill go further. From migraines to weight gainsgoing through nausea, mood swings, breast tenderness, decreased libido and a long etcetera in which there is no shortage of risks of suffering a venous thrombosis, increased blood pressure and cholesterol or liver function disorders due to putting on a small (very small) example.
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78% of men would take the pill… but there is a trick
But let’s put ourselves in the situation that both she and he could take the pill. The advances in the male pill They are getting older and in this position, any member of the couple could take it, right? Well, a recent study clarifies that yes… but no. Men already have an idea of what they would do with the male pill, and the truth is that the results are anything but surprising.
According to the report ‘The future of male contraception’ Conducted on 3,500 people from France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Canada, Switzerland and Spain, and endorsed by six experts in sexual relations, men are willing to share the responsibility, but with conditions. 78% of men would take it, but on the condition that it was like drinking water because, and here comes the worst, 40% would refuse to take it “whatever the side effects”.
Although there is another reason. For us, the pill can produce vaginal dryness and low sexual desire. They are concerned that by taking the pill they will not be able to have erections normally.
It is true that human beings can be selfish and that nobody likes to put their health at risk, but there is something that urologist Volker Wittkamp explains and that I cannot stop telling you: male contraceptive methods have already been shown to have very few side effects compared to those taken by women.
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How cool it is that your girlfriend takes the pill and you can have sex without the condom that “tightens you” so much (we still don’t believe that excuse, Manolo). If we suffer the side effects of this contraceptive, everything is fine, but if a pill for men comes on the market and the side effects are suffered by others, things change.
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