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How Birth Control Messes Up Mutual Attraction
Natural Womanhood ^ | December 10, 2020 | Kathleen Taylor

Posted on 12/14/2020 7:44:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For many women on birth control, it’s pretty obvious that it has effects beyond simply preventing pregnancy. After all, birth control side effects are common, and some are more obvious than others. On the less obvious front is the possible effect of birth control on mutual attraction. That’s right: hormonal birth control can actually change who you’re attracted to—and who’s attracted to you.

Now, before we unpack that mind-blowing assertion, I’m going to tell you a joke.

What did the boy monkey say to his three favorite girl monkeys?

Nothing; because his three favorite girl monkeys were injected with Depo-Provera.

Okay, not much of a joke…I suppose it’s more of a cautionary tale.

What monkeys on synthetic hormones have to show us about birth control and mutual attraction

In his book, The Decline of Males, Dr. Lionel Tiger, PhD (who at the time of the book’s publication was the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University) recounts how the Depo-Provera shot affected the sexual behaviors of a tribe of macaque monkeys who were colonized on a small island. While free from human interference, the alpha male monkey, named “Austin” by the researchers, selected three favorite females to be his exclusive sexual partners.

During the experiment, two groups of female monkeys were injected with Depo-Provera at different times. When Austin’s favorite sexual partners were injected, he stopped having sex with them and actually replaced them with non-injected females. When his replacement mates were injected, and the medication wore off his original partners, he switched back. Once the second group of shots had worn off, all the female monkeys were injected. Not good for Austin—or for his female companions.

(Excerpt) Read more at naturalwomanhood.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Reference; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: attraction; birthcontrol; depoprovera; hormones; mateselection; men; monkeys; pregnancy; relationships; women
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1 posted on 12/14/2020 7:44:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Jeezy you would think somebody would’ve done a test like this decades ago.


2 posted on 12/14/2020 7:47:04 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That explains how Bill Gates got his wife.


3 posted on 12/14/2020 7:48:50 AM PST by DEPcom (Fight for Trump)
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To: DEPcom
That explains how Bill Gates got his wife.

Not $ure that'$ the rea$on!
4 posted on 12/14/2020 7:52:41 AM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Anything like that is possible I suppose.

One thing I do know is that feminazi’s are like kryptonite to the deplorable male of the species.

Nobody wants them so instead of adjusting their attitude, they double down on their diva ways.


5 posted on 12/14/2020 7:55:30 AM PST by Paulie (Better Dead than Red)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This article (I read the entire piece) is amazingly fascinating.

I will have to share it with several of the women I know.


6 posted on 12/14/2020 7:57:36 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (To you all, my loyal spell checkers....nothing but prospect and admiral nation.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When Austin’s favorite sexual partners were injected, he stopped having sex with them and actually replaced them with non-injected females.

Primates..... They're all the same.....

7 posted on 12/14/2020 8:09:01 AM PST by dragonblustar ( Fight the China take over!!!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Well, they won't have to worry about birth control after they get the COVID shot.

  Some say this is debunked. Believe the government and media at your own risk.

8 posted on 12/14/2020 8:21:31 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe this helps to explain the profession of pornography in our culture. Men with partners who are on chemical birth control or perhaps turn into porn for this biological reason.


9 posted on 12/14/2020 8:22:30 AM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: KC_Lion

Interesting read!


10 posted on 12/14/2020 8:25:10 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; KC_Lion

As a mother of eight and soon to be mother of nine I agree with this.

Can’t even begin to tell you all how I get looks from men especially when I’m pregnant. It’s not so much lustful as it is wistful and sometimes sad.


11 posted on 12/14/2020 8:28:44 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Explains liberal chicks.


12 posted on 12/14/2020 8:43:47 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I thought Dr. Tiger’s name was amusing, and then I found this footnote in Wikipedia’s article about him:

Tiger, Lionel; Fox, Robin (1971). The Imperial Animal.


13 posted on 12/14/2020 8:45:24 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only works that way if you want to have children. I’ve never found a shortage of available and attractive women who were on birth control.


14 posted on 12/14/2020 8:50:03 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Biden - Not My President!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

One argument is we are (we act) above the level of hormonal influences on our “feelings”, and the other argument is that our presumed “thinking” has in fact been sometimes, influenced by “moods” that have been influenced by those hormonal signals.


15 posted on 12/14/2020 8:53:59 AM PST by Wuli
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To: MeganC

We have 8 grown children - and my beloved wife BLOSSOMED when she was pregnant! She got even more beautiful!


16 posted on 12/14/2020 9:04:57 AM PST by Arlis
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This explains why so many women on birth control attract Beta males. Who else would be attracted to someone who’s altered hormones make her a stark raving mad lunatic?


17 posted on 12/14/2020 9:08:43 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Arlis

That’s what I’m saying: women really are more beautiful when we’re fertile and especially when we’re pregnant.


18 posted on 12/14/2020 9:10:40 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
Great Thread.

Thank You Megan!

I can’t even begin to tell you all how I get looks from men especially when I’m pregnant. It’s not so much lustful as it is wistful and sometimes sad.

That means so many American men are missing something very important in their lives. (Which is the root cause of basically every problem we have, so many are not parents 😥 )

19 posted on 12/14/2020 9:11:55 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: MeganC

Congrats to you and your family, Megan!

Keep ‘em coming!!

And, continued blessings.


20 posted on 12/14/2020 9:13:17 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow,)
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