To be fair, affairs happened regularly long before the pill though… I do think it added a layer of insouciance about the potential consequences of sex outside of marriage though… 😕
yes I agree. And big pharma did some major damage hiding the deleterious side effects of the pill and promoting menstruation as some kind of handicap that needed to be "fixed" in order to live life. The number of women prescribed anti depressants as a side effect of the pill is astronomical; the number of teen girls who are put on the pill to deal with their acne is also a complete money making scam and doesn't actually fix the problem. I'm not for women having more children than they can handle especially with the high divorce rate and the breakdown of the family in general, but women, once again, were lied to.
agreed. And it ties back to the Pill. The pipeline became Contraception> Affairs> Abortion> Divorce
To be fair, affairs happened regularly long before the pill though… I do think it added a layer of insouciance about the potential consequences of sex outside of marriage though… 😕
yes I agree. And big pharma did some major damage hiding the deleterious side effects of the pill and promoting menstruation as some kind of handicap that needed to be "fixed" in order to live life. The number of women prescribed anti depressants as a side effect of the pill is astronomical; the number of teen girls who are put on the pill to deal with their acne is also a complete money making scam and doesn't actually fix the problem. I'm not for women having more children than they can handle especially with the high divorce rate and the breakdown of the family in general, but women, once again, were lied to.