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Re:Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:42AM (#38188358)
> Contraceptive pill simulates pregnancy at hormonal levels. That includes partner selection and preferences. Imagine your partner is on a pill while you date, you get married and try for kids. She stops pill and there is a huge change in her chemistry .

I have no problem imagining this, since it is, in fact, exactly what happened for me and my wife. (Not the only "huge change" in her or my chemistry, either -- weight changes and pregnancy and giving birth and COVID and... well, lots of things change body chemistry a lot.)

Not sure why you are saying this like it is something particularly alarming, though.

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Re:Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions ... by fragmede on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:51AM (#38188413)
The "alarming", if charmingly idiotic bro-science read of that, is that as soon as the wife is off the hormonal contraceptive pill, they will stop wanting to have sex, and additionally, realize they don't actually like their partner, and that it was the just drugs talking.
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