happy 50th b-day, birth control pill!

[Simon Bar Sinister]

50 years ago next month, "the Pill" was approved for contraceptive use; it had already been approved for some other use a few years before that, but whatever. Anyway, it's hard to think of anything in the last 50 years that changed our society as much.

[freydis]

[Hollywood]

*Prays to the upper body's* Thank you Jebus for this...

[Joey Deadcat]

From what I've seen, though, not much love for the pill out there.

[bean]

The Pill is one of the many things that I am very, very thankful for. Hooray!!

Edited April 28, 2010 by bean

[Destroit]

Tried to take it for a month and realized that it's awful. Apparently other women seem to like it so good for them. Had so many adverse side effects, DEBILITATING effects on my body that I HAD to stop. They should warn women that the pill could adversely effect their mental state before taking it. I also thought it was funny because it's supposed to be a pill that makes it difficult to get pregnant, insinuating that it makes sex-worry free. My worry with that was the fact that I wanted to have sex ALL THE TIME LITERALLY to never ever EVER wanting to even be touched. It also caused me to gain 30+ pounds in less than 20 days...that cannot be healthy.

Never mind the disturbing side effect that, you know, I was trying to prevent children...but the pill made me WANT children. I have never EVER EVER EVER wanted children; I knew this from the time I was four. I've only ever wanted children to go away .

Let's not even get into the uber-embarrassing uncontrollable crying aspect. Horrrrrible.

Now I don't use any birth-control at all and realized that I apparently don't need it because my body must hate the notion of being pregnant as much as my head and my heart does

Tried to take it for a month and realized that it's awful. Apparently other women seem to like it so good for them. Had so many adverse side effects, DEBILITATING effects on my body that I HAD to stop. They should warn women that the pill could adversely effect their mental state before taking it. I also thought it was funny because it's supposed to be a pill that makes it difficult to get pregnant, insinuating that it makes sex-worry free. My worry with that was the fact that I wanted to have sex ALL THE TIME LITERALLY to never ever EVER wanting to even be touched. It also caused me to gain 30+ pounds in less than 20 days...that cannot be healthy.

Never mind the disturbing side effect that, you know, I was trying to prevent children...but the pill made me WANT children. I have never EVER EVER EVER wanted children; I knew this from the time I was four. I've only ever wanted children to go away .

Let's not even get into the uber-embarrassing uncontrollable crying aspect. Horrrrrible.

Now I don't use any birth-control at all and realized that I apparently don't need it because my body must hate the notion of being pregnant as much as my head and my heart does

[DJ Nocker]

Tried to take it for a month and realized that it's awful. Apparently other women seem to like it so good for them. Had so many adverse side effects, DEBILITATING effects on my body that I HAD to stop. They should warn women that the pill could adversely effect their mental state before taking it. I also thought it was funny because it's supposed to be a pill that makes it difficult to get pregnant, insinuating that it makes sex-worry free. My worry with that was the fact that I wanted to have sex ALL THE TIME LITERALLY to never ever EVER wanting to even be touched. It also caused me to gain 30+ pounds in less than 20 days...that cannot be healthy.

Never mind the disturbing side effect that, you know, I was trying to prevent children...but the pill made me WANT children. I have never EVER EVER EVER wanted children; I knew this from the time I was four. I've only ever wanted children to go away .

Let's not even get into the uber-embarrassing uncontrollable crying aspect. Horrrrrible.

Now I don't use any birth-control at all and realized that I apparently don't need it because my body must hate the notion of being pregnant as much as my head and my heart does

LoL, almost everything you said is a known potential side effect.

[taysteewonderbunny]

I thank the birth control pill for helping to revolutionize women's sexuality. It's not perfect. Not only does it have negative side effects, even in the new smaller dosages, but since the hormones present in it do not easily decompose, they persist in the environment and may even negatively impact wildlife--something no one had ever fathomed would be a result even 20 years ago: amphibian populations becoming decimated in areas because frogs are sensitive to hormones and the males morph to females. Still, it did some good. I mean, reproductive control is good. I'll still stick with the condom for now.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Freed up half of society to be more productive and more involved in reality rather than be a unwilling participant in (some might even say victim of) evolutionary heritage. Now how much of that potential has been actualized is debatable, but the implications for society have been staggering (by far mostly on the positive side) much more than many realize(d) then or now. In the end, despite some caveats, three thumbs up. does not even scratch the surface of the positive effects on human culture the pill (and related technology) has had.

[Lillylu29]

Dont take it, never will take it, have no need for it now.... this factory is closed...... I am spayed!

[Joey Deadcat]

*Salutes Cherny and Pest*