Reddit reviews Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control

The comments section should count as a prime example of "everything wrong with feminism, Birth Control Edition".

Complaint after complaint that women' symptoms from birth control are not being taken seriously or reported on in the media. You know what? They are probably right, but for exactly the wrong reason.

Why don't studies that discuss complications with hormonal birth control get a lot of coverage in the media? Because Birth Control is a sacrament for feminists.

Seriously, it's like asking why we don't hear more honest discussions about the efficacy of, for example, Same Sex parenting or sex change operations. The topics are completely politicized, with feminists that talk about the subject getting criticized for questioning the "liberating force of the pill".

The great irony is that women can look forward to ever more of this: the more feminism insists on things that are doctrinaire (as opposed to scientific), the more the feminist inclined media will fail to inform women about important matters.

Lots of books on the topic including:

Beyond The Pill
Beyond the Pill: A 30-Day Program to Balance Your Hormones, Reclaim Your Body, and Reverse the Dangerous Side Effects of the Birth Control Pill https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062847058/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_5FHODbQNV2KCX


Sweetening The Pill
Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780996071/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2EHODbN8C06TV

>Is it possible that not satisfying feminine needs leads to increasing desire till it becomes imbalanced. For example kids satisfying a womans need to nurture. This over time leads to more bi polar disorder.

Yes, that and things like women essentially trying to be "men" (generally faking various skills)... not to mention the entirely unnatural manner in which birth control pills fuck with female hormonal system.

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Never known any woman that was on birth control to NOT end up "unstable" in one or more ways* -- and it seems the longer they are/were on it, the worse the instability becomes.

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* Evidenced by the subsequent taking of several various different anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, and other meds (including literally "mood stabilizers," anti-psychotic, and sleeping meds).

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CF Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control

>>Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug.

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>>Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks - just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes.

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>>When the Pill was released, it was thought that women would not submit to taking a medication each day when they were not sick. Now the Pill is making women sick.

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>>However, there are a growing number of women looking for non-hormonal alternatives for preventing pregnancy. In a bid to spark the backlash against hormonal contraceptives, this book asks: Why can't we criticize the Pill?

Natural Family Planning / fertility awareness are overarching terms that refer to a variety of fertiltity awareness methods. Unfortunately the medical community often does not teach even the basics of these methods in medical school. Many just consider it tea leaf reading even though there are plenty of studies illustrating the effectiveness. Usually those more informed understand that the method or perfect use effectiveness is in the 99% effective range. But the early studies found the user effectiveness to be around a 25% failure rate. More recent studies put the user failure rate between .5 and 3%, but these studies were dismissed in the book "contraceptive technology ". Instead that book decided there were no reliable studies for the user effectiveness and they gathered data form the survey of family growth. As such from that dat the user failure rate is said to be 25%.

this is the statistic that is thus used by most medical organizations but I believe it gives an incomplete picture.

I think a thing to consider is that the method requires consistent and regular observations and behavioral modification. Even if we are not talking failure rates the medical community knows that giving people a pill works better on a user level than getting them to change their diet. So on a logical level, they don't trust it.

Beyond that, I would say that those who use the method tend to have a more casual attitude toward pregnancy. the bulk of us are Catholic and are concerned about needing a just reason to avoid pregnancy. We are the primary users of the method and so our large families tell others it can't be trusted. and as such a good chunk of people who are not Catholic who use it only make the switch if they embrace a more casual attitude as well.

If you want to look further into it, here are some recommendations

http://woomb.org

http://www.fertilitycare.org

http://tcoyf.com

http://nfp.marquette.edu

https://www.lady-comp.com/en/

http://www.cyclebeads.com

http://natural-fertility-info.com/natural-menstrual-health.html

http://www.amazon.com/The-NaPro-Technology-Revolution-Unleashing/dp/0825306264

http://iusenfp.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Sweetening-Pill-Hooked-Hormonal-Control/dp/1780996071

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pill-Are-You-Sure/dp/1741750792/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=09F03AM1422NZZ4F477S

http://sweeteningthepill.com/resources.php