Contraception: Why Not? (part 18)

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith.

Slide: The Magic of Sexual Attraction

There is some really good news for the ladies.   Here we have an article that reports:

They say female chemical messengers, known as pheromones, may help dupe men into thinking plain women are more attractive and beautiful women are less attractive than they actually are.  Pheromones, the colorless, odorless chemical signals given off by the body, are thought to affect behavior in both animals and humans at a subconscious level.

This study involved showing men pictures of super models and having them rate the women for their attractiveness.  Of course, they found them to be very attractive.  Then they took something soaked in female fertile hormones and put that in the same room with the men.  We exchange hormones through the sense of smell, although they have no discernable odor.  Next the men viewed pictures of average women and under the influence of the fertile hormones, found the average women more attractive than the super models.  Women don’t seem to realize that they are naturally attractive to males and that using contraception works against, not for, that attractiveness.

Let us recall that whereas contracepting couples divorce at the rate of about 50%, couples using natural family planning almost never divorce.  It seems men are living in households with women who are going through fertile cycles are less likely to stray.  In fact, the men I know to be in marriages that use natural family planning are what I want to call very married.  They do not look around.  They are not interested in anyone else.  They are very satisfied in their marriage.

After one of my talks, a woman came up to me and said that when she converted to Catholicism she stopped contracepting and started using NFP.  She mentioned that many of her friends who were still contracepting complained that their husbands were having a problem with masturbation and pornography.  She said none of her friends who use natural family planning complained of that problem.  I think there is a reason.  Again, I think the men living with women having fertile cycles are having satisfying natural sex.  Men having sex with women who are contracepting seem to be turbulent and confused.

Slide: Pollution changes sex of fish

We have so much estrogen in our water supply it is unbelievable.  Here we read of a  study that reports:

A third of male fish in British rivers are in the process of changing sex due to pollution in human sewage.  Researcher by the environment [JES1] agency suggests they surveyed 1,500 fish in 50 river sites and found more than a third of males displayed female characteristics.  Hormones in the sewage, including those produced by the female contraceptive pill, are thought to be the main cause.  The agency says the problem could damage fish population by reducing their ability to reproduce.

There is a massive amount of estrogen in our water supply, both from contraceptives and also from plastics that shed various estrogens.  The modern era has a problem with premature puberty in girls; it may be because they are getting too much estrogen in their system.  There is evidence of some difficulties with male development of boy fetuses whose mothers were using a chemical contraceptive when they conceived.  Three percent of women conceive while they are on the Pill and continue to take the Pill for several weeks, if not months, after they conceive.  Consequently, their male fetuses are getting a lot of extra estrogen into their system.  We don’t have full understanding of the effect of all that estrogen on male fetuses, but it may create some serious difficulties.

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