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I really, really don't want this thread to get weird... but I'm curious.
Also, I don't think birth control is bad, before anyone interprets this that way. I think it's necessary in the modern world. I am NOT debating the morality of birth control. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to take it.
That being said, I've heard recently that it can alter what kind of men a woman is attracted to. Supposedly, it makes a woman more interested in "egalitarian" partners.
Personally, I haven't really seen a big difference. I've been on it twice in my life. I feel like my disinterest in romance and men is not related to birth control at all because I occasionally had crushes and desired men while on it, and very jaded BPD episodes where the last thing I wanted was the company of a man while not on it. Some of my friends swear up and down that they were attracted to men who were softer, more "feminine", etc. when they were on birth control. I don't really have a "type" so I can't vouch for that changing while on it.
It somewhat makes sense. The reason it even works is that it locks your body in the part of the menstrual cycle where you cannot have babies, by replicating the hormonal conditions that create that part of the cycle... the same part of the cycle where women are just not normally interested in men and sex and romance. And coincidentally this is also the "PMS" part of the cycle, which for some women causes mood swings, so perhaps this leads to relationship dissatisfaction and lack of interest in men as well.
What do the other women here think?
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