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Jacie
4/7/2012, 10:09 AM
Birth control may affect long-term relationships

A recent study shows that women with lower testosterone levels - typically caused by the use of hormone-based oral contraceptives like the pill - are more attracted to men who also have low testosterone levels.

Previous studies have shown that the less testosterone a man has, the less likely he is to cheat, the more supportive he is, and the better he is at providing for his family. Sounds good, right?

Not quite. Previous studies have also shown that most women are historically more sexually attracted to higher testosterone levels. And the mothers in the study who eventually went off birth control post-wedding reported less sexual contentment than other women; they found their husbands less attractive and less sexually exciting once they went off the pill.

Dr. Craig Roberts of Stirling University questioned more than 2,500 women from around the world for his research. Did their taste in men shift? Or did their birth control have a “love-potion” type of effect?

When a woman uses hormonal birth control containing estrogen, she decreases her levels of available testosterone. And while women have much less testosterone in their systems than men - women’s bodies contain about 10% the amount of testosterone men do - what they do have helps fuel sexual desire, fantasy and the ability to become naturally lubricated in response to arousal.

So it makes sense that when a woman’s testosterone levels are diminished even further by something like the pill, she might be left feeling blasé about sex: hence her potential attraction to a low-testosterone male.

Dr. Roberts says women who met their partner while taking hormonal birth control should consider switching to another method several months in advance of tying the knot in order to assess whether their feelings for their partner will change or stay the same.

And for those women who do choose to stay on the pill, the study offers a silver lining: the women on the pill were happier overall in their relationships and more likely to stay together than their non-pill-taking counterparts. The benefits of the non-sexual aspects of the relationship outweighed any sexual downsides.

So perhaps it’s better to be evenly matched at the low-testosterone end of the spectrum (with a man who is more likely to be faithful) than potentially mismatched.

cleller
4/7/2012, 12:41 PM
Its always something when it comes to women.

olevetonahill
4/7/2012, 12:45 PM
Bitches, Man, Bitches

achiro
4/7/2012, 12:54 PM
Doesn't that just kind of happen with time in many relationships, pill or no pill? Kind of that whole, "show me a supermodel and I'll show you a guy that's sick of her ****" thing.

Fraggle145
4/7/2012, 01:12 PM
Men that get married and have children typically have lower testosterone than other single males. Whether this is correlation or causation still remains a mystery...

soonerhubs
4/7/2012, 02:02 PM
Men that get married and have children typically have lower testosterone than other single males. Whether this is correlation or causation still remains a mystery...

Time to see up some longitudinal designs? :)

StoopTroup
4/7/2012, 02:07 PM
Let me know when you get this figured out. Sounds like someone is trying to get grant money to me.