TCU Magazine Podcast: Side Effects May Include
If a woman stops taking hormonal birth control, does her attraction toward her partner change? Sarah Hill thinks so.
TCU Magazine Podcast: Side Effects May Include
If a woman stops taking hormonal birth control, does her attraction toward her partner change? Sarah Hill thinks so.
https://soundcloud.com/tcu-magazine/birth-controls-unintended-consequences
Sarah Hill, professor of psychology at TCU, found links between hormonal birth control and depression and choice in mate. The author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences (Avery, 2019) talks with host Mariana Rivas ’19 about what this research means for the millions of females on hormonal contraception.
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I’m on it because my depression is so bad that the pill takes away the PMS and then I can just take a Lexapro daily and I am stable all month.
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