I will put all the Nobel bitching behind for a day and focus on something that most of us think is just fine….SEX!
The greatest ionvention in the last 50 years has been “The Pill” or at least to those of us who enjoy a good toss every now and then….but if you, the ladies, are taken the pill does it change your consciousness about who you mate with?
In an article in Health Day the pill could be changing evolution.
“The use of the pill by women, by changing her mate preferences, might induce women to mate with otherwise less-preferred partners, which might have important consequences for mate choice and reproductive outcomes,” said Alexandra Alvergne, lead author of a study appearing in the October issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
“One prediction is that offspring of pill users are more homozygous than expected, possibly related to impaired immune function and decreased perceived health and attractiveness,” according to the report by Alvergne, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of animal and plant sciences at the University of Sheffield in England, and colleague Virpi Lummaa.
Women who are ovulating tend to be attracted to so-called “manly men,” those with more masculine facial features and traits of dominance and competitiveness, according to background information in the study. They also tend to prefer the man who is not like them, genetically speaking.
And men, given a choice, will gravitate towards an ovulating female rather than a non-ovulating female.
But women on the pill are more consistently in a state that mimics pregnancy, the authors stated.
According to the study authors, who stress that “modern contraception has improved the quality of life worldwide,” 100 million women around the globe are on the pill.
“There are important limitations from previous studies, due to the fact few of them have been addressing the question as their main focus,” Alvergne said.
Future research should focus on two questions in particular, she said: Does use of the pill affect marital relationship, satisfaction and durability; and does it affect the ability of couples to reproduce?
Okay ladies if you are taking the pill and think you have found Mr. Right….you might want to think it over….and here is another question…is the high rate of divorce have anything to do with the pill? Like women stop taking it to try and have a baby…and once the pill wears off do they realize that they do not have any attraction to their mate? It would be interesting to find out one woman at a time…..
I think women’s needs, desires, priorities and so on all change over the years, just like a man’s do! Stuffing the body full of hormones that aren’t supposed to be there at the time, or preventing the body from producing hormones it expects may certainly be a factor, but I think it’s mostly just natural progression anyway.
We grow, we change, what we want from life, a partner, sex and everything else WILL change with time and not necessarily in the same way as our partner will change.
It’s simply the human condition and the idea of “till death us do part” always was going to be shown up as a pretty stupid notion for most people, once women were more liberated and no longer dependent on men for food and protection.