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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:07 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2677697.stm
my ex boyfriend sent me this article this morning.
The basis of it says that while women are on contraceptive pills; or the implant (which i have); They will Go for the macho tough guys.
While on the other hand, women who arn't taking anything, prefer the sentitive guys, who according to the article, are more likely to be a better boyfriend long term.
I don't beleive this is true. My tastes haven't changed. it is true, im falling for a guy right now, who is the protective type, but i wouldn't call him tough or macho. But he's not sensitive either.
I just don't see how pills or implants could change the way you see guys.
The quote in the article says "Where a woman chooses her partner while she is on the pill, and then comes off it to have a child, she may find she is married to the wrong man"
So they're saying, that if i got engaged to the man i like now, then got pregnant and stopped the pill, i'd go off him and go back to a sensitive guy.
What do you people think? Is there anybody out there who's also on the pill, who agree's with the article?
Discuss people, i think its interesting!
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:54 am
It's certainly an interesting idea... I suppose the only way it could work (assuming it does) is that it changes the chemical flow inside the body, which somehow alters the woman's perceptions about what is "desireable" in a man.
The only evidence I can cite in favor of that argument is that most women I know who engage in sex often usually go for the macho guys. I dunno if these women are on the pill or not, though. I just know they're active.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:06 pm
*raises hand in protest*
I have been on the pill for over 3 years now. And in no way has this altered my perception of who I want and how macho the guy is. I've dating all sorts of guys, looking for what I want in a guy through who they are, not how they appear.
What the "protection" comes down to, in my opinion, is that because you can have as much promiscuous sex as you want since you won't have children, you should look for a piece of eye candy who you can brag about to your friends. It doesn't matter who the guy is, as long as he looks good. And there are no consequences for your actions if you sleep around. And who wants to sleep around with "wimpy" guys? Sex won't seem as "good" if you're with a "wimpy" guy. Strong macho guys do it better. NOT!
And there is no chemical change that says you will look for a better "breed" of men when you are on the pill. In fact, it should be the other way around. When you are looking to have kids, you should look for a strong, but caring guy because their contribution to the gene pool will help keep the human line moving along. Macho is a teenager's ideal.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:04 am
This is really interesting.
But I can't see this topic going anywhere... at least for us male users.
I guess (and this is really just a guess) that the female taste in men goes back to a mixture of hormones. So, if you change around the hormones in a woman it COULD change her taste in men.
On the other hand, if taste in men is not a thing of hormones but more like your taste of music or art I can't see why medication should change your views at all.
The article says it has to do with the blocked ovulation. Thus, not being able to become pregnant women would go for the macho type instead of the sensitive type.
Wouldn't this logic mean infertile women would also be more attracted to the macho type instead of the sensitive type?
And wouldn't it also mean women who easily become pregnant would be likely to pick out the sensitive men?
I also think it could be the conciousness of the woman's inability to become pregnant that causes her to pick other men. Due to her conciousness of a possibly short-termed connection to the man she picks it COULD be an experimental thing. Like saying to herself: "I could try something different because I could dump him any time I want to, cause I won't become pregnant, there's no risk." This of course could be a sub-concious decision.
The article also says women taking the pill are not as influenced by male scents (pheromones) as women who aren't.
This makes more sense to me, than just saying women tend to pick other partners while taking the pill.
But isn't this fact contradictorily to the theory that these women rather pick the macho type? Sensitive and less masculine men don't produce as much testosterone as the macho type and thus have a weaker male scent.
I can't say any of this is correct because I do not know anything about this topic, it's my best guess.
I am just trying to collect possible reasoning for possible answers.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:56 am
RainJosh The article also says women taking the pill are not as influenced by male scents (pheromones) as women who aren't. Forget that myth. I spent an evening in a sex store with some of my girlfriends and we were looking at the pheromone sprays. I'm on the pill and I got just as turned on as my girlfriends did with the pheromones. The birth control I use, Yaz, contains estrogen and progestin, the second one tricks the body into believing it's already pregnant. The drug does not block the hormones used to arouse a woman. In fact, the estrogen plays a major part in arousal. So in short, this whole article is a bunch of bull s**t. Whoever wrote it needs to be fired.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:07 am
I think it's possible but it would probably depend on the hormones in the birth control and the hormone levels of the person taking it. No one has the same hormone levels as everyone else, so we wouldn't all react the same way. That's why there are so many different types and strengths of birth control. My doctor messed with my dosage for years before getting it right. So could someone's hormones be changed by birth control into liking someone they normally wouldn't? I suppose it could happen but I don't think it would happen that often.
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Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:04 am
I don't think that that 'study' had a wide enough range.
What about the people who are (genuinely) on the pill because of cramps and such?
The only thing the pill I have (and I do genuinely take it for the above reason) does is fool the body into thinking it's pregnant, nothing more. My taste in guys hasn't changed at all, either.
I suppose you could construe that women look for more macho guys to protect them while pregnant, but I think we've evolved past that at this point...
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:16 pm
Careful with using these kind of hormones long term, it can deplete your libido.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:23 pm
that's supposed to be true, but i haven't had any experience with it, or really plan to find out. i don't know, maybe there's some merit.
i met my husband, who is a fairly sensitive guy, when i wasn't on any birth control, and then when i went on the injection, i started wanting him to 'grow some b***s' and become 'more of a man' mentally, but i wouldn't say it out loud. i still won't. but maybe i'm yanking straws out of nowhere.
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