NNNRGH-ok.

Look up the active ingredient of most of the female contraceptive pills- they’re very messy broadly active hormone inhibitors. It’s a mistake to think that they’re safe for folks to take- the FDA has sucgreat timesbed to pressure over the past 15 years and has made a lot of things available that really shouldn’t be.

Some of the female oral contraceptives are fairly safe, but folks need to realize that the pharmacology involved is incredibly complicated, and still largely unexplored. The ones like Yaz, which are advertised on the basis of reducing the effects of menstruation, are the worst, because the suppression mechanism is broadbased- it’s not preventing the reproductive tract from accepting hormones, it’s preventing their production. This is crazy-level untested. Male oral contraceptives would be even worse in many respects, as hormone suppression in men can cause problems in a broader set of areas, particularly at a younger age- the male brain is often still releasing abnormally high testosterone levels well into an individual’s mid-twenties.

My point isn’t to say that oral or other contraceptives are bad as a concept- I may be abstinent(insert many obvious jokes here), but I understand their necessity and support their promotion. The issue is that folks bumume that because “they’ve come out with something”, it’s safe, or doesn’t have serious consequences in one realm or another.