TikTok is removing videos that criticize hormonal birth control for being “misinformation” at the request of mainstream media.
The Washington Post boasted last week that it is responsible for TikTok removing five popular videos which discussed the dangers of hormonal birth control (HBC). One of them featured the Daily Wire’s Brett Cooper, who explained that HBC “can impact fertility, cause women to gain weight and even alter whom they are attracted to.”
In an article titled “Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion,” WaPo did not cite evidence to disprove these statements but instead pointed to “experts” who dismissed them as “misinformation.”
The dangers of HBC have been drawing more attention amid scientific evidence showing that such hormonal contraceptives can increase the risk of breast cancer by 30% and cause psychological harm. A Danish study of one million women found that adult females on progestin-only birth control were 34% more likely to suffer depression, a number that became 80% for teenage females.
“It is important that women know the effects of hormonal birth control, as it is a significant cause of depression and increases suicide risk,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted this month. “This is not a value statement, just a public service announcement. Other forms of birth control do not have these effects.”
But the hazards wrought by HBC extend beyond cancer and depression. They also distort women’s attraction mechanisms which leads to relationship breakdowns and weaker offspring.
According to research, a block of genetic code known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is the mechanism that controls attraction to the opposite sex. As they approach ovulation, healthy women are drawn to men with masculine traits who are MHC-dissimilar, which means they have a disparate genetic code. This genetic difference results in more powerful immune systems in offspring, allowing humans to develop strong defenses against a variety of infections and illnesses.
MHC is communicated through a person’s natural fragrance pheromones, often secreted through their sweat glands. Without consciously processing it, women can be drawn to a man based on his odor, which provides a “clue” about his genetic code.
But contraceptives that interfere with women’s hormone cycles also alter their regular choices in men, evidence shows. Women on HBC are more likely to be attracted to males with more feminine characteristics and more similar MHCs than to more masculine, genetically unrelated men.
The attraction is also more erratic. Research indicates that women who partner with men with comparable MHC patterns are more likely to commit infidelity and have lower levels of sexual satisfaction than women who have similar MHC patterns.
When women who enter relationships while on HBC stop taking the hormonal contraceptives, it may cost them the relationship.
According to Gurit E. Birnbaum, Ph.D., “[W]omen who had used hormonal contraceptives when they first met their partner and then ceased to take them experience lower levels of sexual and relationship satisfaction and are more likely to get divorced.”
In her book “The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility,” fertility expert Lisa Hendrickson-Jack quotes a woman who described what happened when she stopped taking HBC:
Within weeks, I found that my significant other was less attractive to me. He had a smell I had never noticed, and a couple of months post-pill I was finding that he completely disgusted me. Don’t get me wrong, great guy!! He’s very sweet, hard-working, would never treat a woman badly, but I couldn’t even bear to kiss him anymore, so I broke it off.
In addition to finding macho males less attractive, women on hormonal birth control may also experience a decrease in their own attractiveness. Numerous studies indicate that men find women who are not using birth control to be more attractive than those who are. In one study, male cynomolgus monkeys did not even ejaculate during sex with females using hormonal birth control.
“It’s almost as if they have some level of awareness of [sic] the pill-taking female is a reproductive dead-end and would rather save the energy that would be required to punctuate their sexual behavior with gamete release to do something else,” explained Sarah E. Hill, Ph.D. in her book “This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.” Hill is a widely recognized researcher in evolutionary psychology.
Another study found that female nightclub dancers who were not on the pill earned an average of $83 more in tips than those who used HBC.
Furthermore, because birth control eliminates the genetic dissimilarity that produces strong offspring, children born to moms who used birth control were found to be weaker and less healthier, according to Reichman University researchers in Israel.
“Results confirmed our predictions, indicating that children to mothers who were on the pill are more infection prone, require more medical care, suffer from a higher frequency of common sicknesses, and are perceived as generally less healthy than children whose parents met on non-pill circumstances,” the researchers concluded, and noted the danger HBC poses to future generations.
“[T]he immune system of current-generation children might be more fragile than that of our ancestors, leaving the current and future generations more susceptible to pathogens and more dependent on medical care as its effective line of defense,” they added.
