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THE STEREOTYPES – ‘MEN NEED TO BE IN CONTROL’ (THE PILL – GENERAL INFORMATION)
7 April 2009
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A young man said, ‘When they are on the Pill, it is as if they are pregnant. They put on weight and it makes them want babies. I would always use a condom too.’ Again, the feeling of the Pill being a risk was put in this way: ‘A girl on the Pill may change her mind and stop it; perhaps after making love, especially if it was good.’
And what does the Pill control? Certainly if taken correctly it does provide excellent fertility control. But at a deeper level, the Pill interferes with natural cycles. Does it matter that a couple loses touch with the moon and tides? No-one directly complained of this, but in many discussions there surfaced an agreement that nature was being interfered with. One man asked, ‘If she got pregnant on the Pill, would the child’s periods be affected later?’ As the child is mother to the adult, we want the child to have a natural, healthy start.
In talk of hormones, people mentioned steroids, hair growth, infertility, osteoporosis, cystic ovaries, baldness, libido changes and homosexuality. The word ‘hormone’ has become tainted because of its association with steroids and drugs. Men are cautious about what may be going on when their partner is on the Pill. Some felt that premenstrual tension was worse on the Pill, ‘even though she gets some break’. The tension was seen as a build up from the drugs over the 21 days of Pill taking.
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