Amy Parker ditched the Pill in February after ending her seven-year relationship. By May the thought of dating men filled her with 'disgust'.
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She believes the 13 years she spent on the popular form of hormonal contraception somehow masked her true identity. Amy Parker, from Adelaide in Australia, ditched her hormonal birth control in February after ending her seven-year relationship with her ex-boyfriend 'I went on the contraceptive pill at 15 for my periods and stayed on it every day. My doctor told me I didn't need to have a break so I never did.'
'We had bought a house and built a life together. We were going to start trying for a family this year. 'I didn't feel the same way that I thought about dating men, that disgust and uneasy feeling. I felt intrigued and excited and like I was doing something a bit cheeky. 'I felt like this is what intimacy on a sexual level should feel like. It was this awakening, eye-opening moment. It felt like I'd been missing out on this my entire life.
The combined pill contains artificial version of the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone, which are produced naturally in the ovaries. The proportion of Brits taking oral contraceptives has fallen by more than two-thirds, from 420,600 in 2012/13 to 126,400 in 2022/23, according to NHS data. Around 555,400 women turned to the health service's sexual and reproductive health services in 2022/23 — equivalent to four per cent of 13 to 54-year-olds
One study involving 2,000 women, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also explored sexual satisfaction and partner attraction among women who met their partners when they were on the pill versus those who only started using birth control after starting the relationship. The 2013 study recruited 55 straight women and used a computer program in a lab that allowed them to manipulate human features in photographs of different men and women.
A 2011 study of around 2,000 women, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, explored sexual satisfaction and partner attraction among women who met their partners when they were on the pill versus those who only started using birth control after starting the relationship.
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