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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 10 2017, @07:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the risk-vs-reward dept.

Birth Control Pills Still Linked to Breast Cancer, Study Finds

Women who rely on birth control pills or contraceptive devices that release hormones face a small but significant increase in the risk for breast cancer, according to a large study published on Wednesday.

The study [DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1700732] [DX], which followed 1.8 million Danish women for more than a decade, upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger generations of women. Many women have believed that newer hormonal contraceptives are much safer than those taken by their mothers or grandmothers, which had higher doses of estrogen.

The new paper estimated that for every 100,000 women, hormone contraceptive use causes an additional 13 breast cancer cases a year. That is, for every 100,000 women using hormonal birth control, there are 68 cases of breast cancer annually, compared with 55 cases a year among nonusers.

While a link had been established between birth control pills and breast cancer years ago, this study is the first to examine the risks associated with current formulations of birth control pills and devices in a large population.

The study found few differences in risk between the formulations; women cannot protect themselves by turning to implants or intrauterine devices that release a hormone directly into the uterus.

The research also suggests that the hormone progestin — widely used in today's birth control methods — may be raising breast cancer risk.

Also at NPR.

Previously: Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression
Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens


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Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression 36 comments

A study analyzing data on over 1 million women has found an association between hormonal birth control and use/prescription of antidepressants:

"Today in vindication," wrote a woman on Twitter on Tuesday, summarizing the way many have received a striking new study [DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387] [DX] that found those who use birth control — especially teenage girls — may be at a significantly higher risk of experiencing depression. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has been heralded as groundbreaking for its depth and breadth, even if it seems to only confirm what some women say they've been feeling for years — that their hormonal contraceptives make them sad.

Women who used the combined birth control pill, a mix of estrogen and progestin, were 23 percent more likely to be prescribed anti-depressants than nonusers, and progestin-only pills raised the likelihood by 34 percent. With the patch, antidepressant use doubled; risk increased by 60 percent for vaginal rings and 40 percent for hormonal IUDs. And for teens age 15 to 19 taking combined oral contraceptives, the use of anti-depressants spiked 80 percent. Although those percentages may seem shocking, the absolute change is a small but significant spike. Among women who did not use hormonal birth control, an average of 1.7 out of 100 began taking anti-depressants in a given year. That rate increased to 2.2 out of 100 if the women took birth control.

It's the first study to conclude there might be a link between birth control and depression, author Øjvind Lidegaard told The Washington Post. Mood swings are often listed as a known side effect, but not clinical depression.

Also at The Guardian and CBC.


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Review Finds That Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills Would be Safe for Teens 85 comments

A review has reiterated that oral contraception is safe and effective for adolescent females, and found that negative side effects are rarer among teens than adult users. The review also found no evidence linking the use of oral contraceptives to increased or riskier sex:

Nearly five years ago, the nation's leading group of obstetricians and gynecologists issued a policy statement saying the time had come for oral contraception to be available without a prescription. We wrote about it and everything.

In the intervening years, some states have changed their laws. California authorized pharmacists to distribute most types of hormonal birth control. Oregon passed a similar law covering both pills and patches. But neither law changed the status of birth control pills from prescription to over-the-counter. Only the Food and Drug Administration can do that. And in Oregon's case, the law does not apply to people of all ages. People under 18 are still required to get their first contraceptive prescription from a doctor.

But researchers say there is no evidence that adolescents are at greater risk from birth control pills than adult women. A review of oral contraceptive research [DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.12.024] [DX] presents the most comprehensive evidence yet that, as the authors state, "There is no scientific rationale for limiting access to a future over-the-counter oral contraceptive product by age."

"There is a growing body of evidence that the safety risks are low and benefits are large," says Krishna Upadhya, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the lead author of the review, which was published this week in the Journal of Adolescent Health. In fact, she says, some of the potential negative side effects of oral contraception are less likely in younger people. For example, birth control pills that contain both estrogen and progestin come with an increased risk of a type of blood clot called a venous thromboembolism, but that risk is lower in teenagers than in older women. As a result, the pill is "potentially safer the younger you are," says Upadhya.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday December 10 2017, @08:14PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday December 10 2017, @08:14PM (#608042) Journal

    #NoBreastsLeftBehind
    #MansBreastFriend

    Yes.
    I am a breast man.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @08:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @08:45PM (#608051)

    These same women also face a "small but significant risk" of being hit by a bus tomorrow.

    Life's a bitch and then you die.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Original on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:04PM (5 children)

    by Original (6814) on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:04PM (#608056)

    Estrogen and progesterone stimulate breast and ovarian tissue, so the more cycles the tissue undergoes the higher risk of cancer. Yes the risk is lower than previously formulations but that's mainly due to lower dose with better drug delivery. Only a fool would expect the risk to go to absolute zero.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:16PM (4 children)

      by RamiK (1813) on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:16PM (#608101)

      Yes the risk is lower than previously formulations but that's mainly due to lower dose with better drug delivery.

      Wrong. Neither the lower dosages, the estrogen–progestin cocktails or just progestin meaningfully reduce the risk nor did the drug delivery mechanism::

      Risk estimates associated with current or recent use of various oral combination (estrogen–progestin) contraceptives varied between 1.0 and 1.6.

      the relative risk of breast cancer among all current and recent users of hormonal contraception was 1.20

      Women who currently or recently used the progestin-only intrauterine system also had a higher risk of breast cancer than women who had never used hormonal contraceptives (relative risk, 1.21;

      That is, current methods all have about the same risks as the first high-dosage estrogen pills. The NY Times even quoted a doctor to explicitly state as much:

      “This is an important study because we had no idea how the modern day pills compared to the old-fashioned pills in terms of breast cancer risk, and we didn’t know anything about I.U.D.’s,” said Dr. Marisa Weiss, an oncologist who founded the website breastcancer.org and was not involved in the study. “Gynecologists just assumed that a lower dose of hormone meant a lower risk of cancer. But the same elevated risk is there.”

      Which was actually a pretty restrained comment considering this is basically yet-another big-pharma scam along with COX-2 inhibitors and the new opioids. But hey, at least this one didn't cause heart-attacks, the opioids epidemic and a few drug-wars. Well, that we know of...

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:00AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:00AM (#608183)

        this is basically yet-another big-pharma scam

        Right. Being able to have sex without becoming pregnant is such a big scam.</sarcasm> Especially given that abortion may not be legal much longer.

        Is it any wonder some men who want a woman as a sexual partner are finding it impossible to find that kind of companionship?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:08AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:08AM (#608216)

          I'm guessing he meant that the reformulation of the pills is a scam.

          • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @04:40PM (1 child)

            by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @04:40PM (#608315)

            Oh please, there were surely other reasons to reformulate the pills besides the breast cancer risk.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:19PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:19PM (#608391)

              Commercially, reformulation extended their patent protections while the dosage reduction lowered the price of manufacturing.

              Medically, estrogen, progesterone and progestin bind to different receptor sites and raise or lower the risks for a whole list of conditions in different ways. They even interact with each other - in complex ways - by competing over some sites but not others. Progestin especially has been linked to heart attacks and the only reason it was allowed to remain on the market was the - now debunked - reduced risk for breast cancer.

              Overall, old women should take estrogen and progesterone while younger women might want to risk estrogen contraceptive pills. But those are 40 years old - past their patents - courses so the drug companies are obstructing the FDA.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Hartree on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:25PM (10 children)

    by Hartree (195) on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:25PM (#608060)

    It's a complex thing to weigh the risk. On the one had, you have a small increase in breast cancer, but an unplanned pregnancy has a lot more risks in several kinds of wellbeing, not just physical health. The pill has the advantage of being always on, unlike some other methods that have to be applied, or like a condom, a partner has to use.

    We tend to hear "cancer" and have a strong emotional reaction. It's hard to balance risks when you have something that's terrifying like that involved.

    • (Score: 2) by qzm on Monday December 11 2017, @03:51AM (1 child)

      by qzm (3260) on Monday December 11 2017, @03:51AM (#608182)

      Of perhaps, just perhaps, the lifestyles of the people who choose to be on birth control pills is different in ways that increase their risk of breast cancer?

      No, how could THAT possibly be, it must be the pills.

      Sigh

      • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday December 11 2017, @06:31PM

        by Hartree (195) on Monday December 11 2017, @06:31PM (#608371)

        The uncertainty in cause and effect is part of the risk benefit weighing.

        It's possible there is a confounding lifestyle factor and the low dose pills aren't the cause, but that's just another probability to figure in.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:33AM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:33AM (#608191)

      It's a complex thing to weigh the risk. On the one had, you have a small increase in breast cancer, but an unplanned pregnancy has a lot more risks in several kinds of wellbeing, not just physical health. The pill has the advantage of being always on, unlike some other methods that have to be applied, or like a condom, a partner has to use.

      We tend to hear "cancer" and have a strong emotional reaction. It's hard to balance risks when you have something that's terrifying like that involved.

      Except that you forget that PIV is *always* rape [wordpress.com], regardless of the use of birth control. You're a rapist, aren't you? If you've had PIV, then QED.

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @04:53PM (1 child)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @04:53PM (#608320)

        Just because you find something wacky on the internet somewhere doesn't mean that a lot of people believe it.

        If I do a few minutes of Googling, I'm sure I can find a blog where people talk very seriously about the Earth being flat, or some new-age bullshit about "ascended masters", or the "deep state", or some other insane nonsense. The Internet, in fact, is really bad this way because it makes it easy for these loons to find each other and reinforce each others' views and convince others.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @10:46PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @10:46PM (#608504)

          Just because you find something wacky on the internet somewhere doesn't mean that a lot of people believe it.

          If I do a few minutes of Googling, I'm sure I can find a blog where people talk very seriously about the Earth being flat, or some new-age bullshit about "ascended masters", or the "deep state", or some other insane nonsense. The Internet, in fact, is really bad this way because it makes it easy for these loons to find each other and reinforce each others' views and convince others.

          Same AC here. Apparently, your sense of humor differs from mine. C'est la vie!

      • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday December 11 2017, @06:27PM (4 children)

        by Hartree (195) on Monday December 11 2017, @06:27PM (#608367)

        Far worse than that. It's time I admitted it:

        I'm "hip acronym" challenged.

        I'm so clueless it took me a good while to figure out what PIV was referring to here and that it was not some STD or other medical condition.

        So, I'm terminally oblivious and since I've not even aware of the problem, I must be part of the problem. Q.E.D.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @10:48PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @10:48PM (#608507)

          Far worse than that. It's time I admitted it:

          I'm "hip acronym" challenged.

          I'm so clueless it took me a good while to figure out what PIV was referring to here and that it was not some STD or other medical condition.

          So, I'm terminally oblivious and since I've not even aware of the problem, I must be part of the problem. Q.E.D.

          I disagree. Unless you're a batshit crazy, extreme hater of men, you wouldn't know what it meant.

          Please note that actual feminists don't think this way, not even the Radfems.

          • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Tuesday December 12 2017, @12:13AM (2 children)

            by Hartree (195) on Tuesday December 12 2017, @12:13AM (#608549)

            On the internet, no one really knows if you're a batshit crazy, extreme hater of men.

            (Though it's far more likely you're just a clueless 50 something fat computer geek.)

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @12:35AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @12:35AM (#609026)

              On the internet, no one really knows if you're a batshit crazy, extreme hater of men.

              (Though it's far more likely you're just a clueless 50 something fat computer geek.)

              I never said I was. I *implied* that this person [wordpress.com] was.

              Further, I wasn't slamming you for not knowing what PIV meant. Rather I was pointing out that few people necessarily would know.

              It seems that your reading comprehension skills need a little work. Good luck with that!

              • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:05AM

                by Hartree (195) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:05AM (#609079)

                "It seems that your reading comprehension skills need a little work. Good luck with that!"

                Some might have realized that it was a riff on the "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog" meme, and I was also taking a poke at myself (who indeed is a fat 50 something computer geek).

                Relax. :) Neither of us were slamming the other.

  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:37PM (1 child)

    by Appalbarry (66) on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:37PM (#608065) Journal

    "
    Birth control pills. That's part of the drug scene, isn't it? You have to count them. The entire female population of the US is being used as the guinea pigs to find out if birth control pills are gonna have any side effects or not. Isn't that nice. Really, if every lady who used them gets to 61 and one leg gets shorter than the other one...better call the pills back."

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 11 2017, @02:51PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Monday December 11 2017, @02:51PM (#608273) Homepage
      That's why the FDA demands smaller controlled trials be done before licences are issued for a drug. There are strong arguments for having drugs which look like they have potential being pushed out onto the public quicker than they historically were, as generally the benefits (0 babies/abortions rather than 1 baby/abortion in tens of thousands of people) are greater than the risks (increased likelyhood of cancer in a dozen people). Of course, there might be several possible putative treatments for ailments - in which case, try them all at the same time using randomised trials: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e55?ijkey=7fcf553df85463ebcd9c7f454e4209c74890df7b&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
      . This is good science, this is scientists doing science properly - tests need to be done - do the tests.
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Sunday December 10 2017, @10:06PM (10 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Sunday December 10 2017, @10:06PM (#608074) Journal

    boobs or baby?

    Sounds like an argument for vasectomies.

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:32PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:32PM (#608107)
      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @04:54PM (2 children)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @04:54PM (#608321)

        It has a 10% failure rate? That's actually horrifically high.

        • (Score: 1) by RickDangerous on Monday December 11 2017, @08:14PM (1 child)

          by RickDangerous (6816) on Monday December 11 2017, @08:14PM (#608412)

          That's the long term chronic testicular pain rate from vasectomy.
          Failure rate for sterilisation as a contraceptive method is really low.
          I bought the t-shirt on the chronic pain unfortunately.
          Condoms / copper IUD for the win.

          • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @09:16PM

            by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @09:16PM (#608433)

            Oh, I see. I skimmed the line about "long term ball pain", I guess I subconsciously omitted the "ball" part of that, and thought the OP was talking about getting stuck raising a kid or paying child support for a couple decades.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 11 2017, @02:48AM (5 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @02:48AM (#608167) Journal

      Just let the contraceptive aside and you'll have both kinds**

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      ** Limits and conditions apply.
      E.g. boobs - limited to only two per person. Lately, the menist movement registered a leap ahead in physical (boobs) equality.

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      • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:07AM (4 children)

        by Hartree (195) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:07AM (#609081)

        I seem to have come by my man boobs naturally (gravity's a bitch, or makes you look like one...)

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:18AM (3 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:18AM (#609083) Journal

          Yeap. But, naturally, you still have only two of them.

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          • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:24AM (2 children)

            by Hartree (195) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:24AM (#609087)

            You have to go to a furry convention for more than that, I guess.

            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:53AM (1 child)

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 13 2017, @04:53AM (#609097) Journal

              You have to go to a furry convention for more than that, I guess.

              Or at movies (remember Lycia Naff?)

              Surprise: polymastia [wikipedia.org] is said to be most prevalent in male humans.

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              • (Score: 3, Informative) by Hartree on Wednesday December 13 2017, @05:21AM

                by Hartree (195) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @05:21AM (#609100)

                I totally recall Lycia Naff!

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:10PM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:10PM (#608096) Homepage Journal

    The Pill can also cause severe emotional disturbances.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:38PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:38PM (#608110)

      LOL...correlation does not imply causation. The Pill is used by women, women by their very nature suffer from severe emotional disturbances. You might as well say that brassieres cause severe emotional disturbances.

      • (Score: 2) by chromas on Monday December 11 2017, @10:27PM

        by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @10:27PM (#608485) Journal

        This was marked as troll, but there are some women who use birth control to temper their mood swings, heavy flow and other issues caused by hormone imbalance.

  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday December 11 2017, @12:51AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday December 11 2017, @12:51AM (#608134)

    Of course, you know what is going to happen now is fewer people are going to use this kind of birth control. = More babies.

    So this probably is a good time to remind everyone have their humans spayed or neutered!

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by chromas on Monday December 11 2017, @10:21PM

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @10:21PM (#608480) Journal

      I guess that's one way to get more people running eunuchs on their desktops.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @02:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @02:17AM (#608151)

    When women ovulate, they are attracted to manly men. They are less interested in metrosexual types. They tend to avoid their fathers.

    When women are on birth control, it goes the other way.

    Consider how this can ruin a relationship. A women goes for a man she likes. She then goes on birth control and loses interest. Alternately, she goes off birth control (to have a baby, or because he had a vasectomy) and she loses interest.

  • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Monday December 11 2017, @02:26AM (9 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Monday December 11 2017, @02:26AM (#608154)

    On one hand, it might accelerate progress on the male pill to help get women off theirs.

    On the other hand, the thought that taking this new pill might increase cancer risk for men might make them leery of it.

    One thing's for certain - abstinence will continue to be as (in)effective as ever.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday December 11 2017, @02:43AM (4 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @02:43AM (#608166) Journal

      One thing's for certain - abstinence will continue to be as (in)effective as ever.

      Best contraceptive - aspirin. Just keep a pill between your knees and don't let it go.

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      • (Score: 2) by julian on Monday December 11 2017, @04:03AM

        by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @04:03AM (#608185)

        Challenge accepted (from the male's point of view)!

      • (Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Monday December 11 2017, @04:05PM (2 children)

        by Taibhsear (1464) on Monday December 11 2017, @04:05PM (#608296)

        Best contraceptive - aspirin. Just keep a pill between your knees and don't let it go.

        *bends woman over*

        I don't think the person that originally thought of that quip was particularly imaginative or sexually experienced...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @08:56PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @08:56PM (#608428)

          Indeed, I have a sister-in-law who claims to have defeated the aspirin method as a fun challenge one night. She said it was kinda kinky, but not very difficult.

          /me double-checks that "post anonymously" is checked before submitting... Coward indeed.

        • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @09:18PM

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @09:18PM (#608436)

          Tons of Christian conservatives are exactly the same: they ask female rape victims "why didn't you just keep your legs together?" There's been plenty of incidences of Christian judges asking women this. Again, obviously not very knowledgeable about female anatomy.

    • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday December 11 2017, @04:57PM (3 children)

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday December 11 2017, @04:57PM (#608325)

      We don't need a male pill. Men have far simpler reproductive systems, and there's already a form of contraceptive that's been developed, and is currently testing, where a material is injected into the seminal ducts to block them. So it's like a vasectomy, except even easier (just an injection), and better yet, it's easily reverse with another injection to dissolve the material. It promises to be far cheaper than vasectomies, and of course far more reliable than other methods like pills or condoms.

      • (Score: 2) by chromas on Monday December 11 2017, @10:19PM (2 children)

        by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 11 2017, @10:19PM (#608478) Journal

        Don't want to block the semen, just the sperm. How can you give your girl perl necklaces without the (diet) baby batter?

        • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday December 12 2017, @05:29AM (1 child)

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday December 12 2017, @05:29AM (#608650)

          Whoops, you're right. This new method blocks the sperm ducts above the testes, inside the scrotum. The semen is produced by the prostate gland inside the abdomen.

          • (Score: 2) by chromas on Tuesday December 12 2017, @11:56AM

            by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 12 2017, @11:56AM (#608699) Journal

            Sweet! Now my hand won't get mad when I don't pull out.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by NotSanguine on Monday December 11 2017, @03:13AM (6 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Monday December 11 2017, @03:13AM (#608173) Homepage Journal

    An ex of mine went on the pill while we were together and she almost immediately began getting yeast infections pretty regularly.

    As soon as she stopped using birth control pills, the yeast infections stopped.

    And since most of you are men, and many of you are men who rarely see pussy, let me tell you yeast infections are no fun for women (or their partners!).

    That's not as serious an issue as breast cancer, but in the end, it's all about intelligent risk assessment and mitigation. Anything else is just hysterical bullshit.

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:26AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:26AM (#608189)

      Stopped cottage cheese after that.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @03:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @03:01PM (#608277)

        Stopped cottage cheese after that.

        Where's the "-1 That's Just Nasty" moderation?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @04:08PM (#608297)

      Maybe you should clean your dick better...

    • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday December 12 2017, @10:28PM (2 children)

      by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday December 12 2017, @10:28PM (#608977)

      so with condoms == healthy pussy, w/o == a soft cheese. yeah, it must be the pill. you're a geanious.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 12 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 12 2017, @11:13PM (#609004)

        What's a Geanious? Because you're clearly not a genius.

        https://www.activechangenutrition.com/blog/can-birth-control-cause-yeast-infections [activechangenutrition.com]

        • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:05PM

          by fakefuck39 (6620) on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:05PM (#609682)

          women's blog titled "Find Knowledge & Empowerment Here" by a lesbo-looking ugly woman named Sarah Irizarry. gotchu geneous.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Goddess Savitri Devi on Monday December 11 2017, @03:18AM

    by Goddess Savitri Devi (6815) on Monday December 11 2017, @03:18AM (#608174) Homepage Journal

    Aryan women should never use birth control as their purpose is to have as many Aryan babies as possible.

    Mongrel women and filthy jew cows should have hysterectomies as children. Mongrel men and jews should just be castrated at birth.

    If we take these important and necessary steps, we can rid the world of inferior scum within a generation or two, paving the way for our glorious thousand year reich!

    --
    Shiva shall rain death upon non-Aryan scum
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @07:43AM (#608222)

    An association with breast cancer was [americanthinker.com] already known [slate.com].

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