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Can birth control make you a LESBIAN? As a number of women tell their homosexuality was 'woken up' after starting or coming off the Pill, studies suggest there might be some truth about the unlikely side effect
From weight gain to nausea, breast tenderness and menstrual cycle changes — the Pill has a lengthy list of side effects.
But a number of women contain spoken out about what is probably the most unlikely side effect yet — they say the oral contraceptive turned them gay.
While it may sound outlandish, there is some evidence the combined and progestin-only oral tablets can modify how women perceive attractiveness.
The medication works by suppressing the body's natural production of sex hormones and replaces them with synthetic versions.
These altered hormones may re-wire brain circuits related to love and sex, according to Dr Sarah Hill, a psychologist who specializes in women's health at Texas Christian University.
Dr Hill told DailyMail.com: ‘The way that our hormones disturb our brain is by nudging our preferences or behavior this way or that way. Sometimes it might nudge you into a direction that wouldn't necessarily agree with what your brain would undertake outside of that.
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When it comes to contraception, the pill is the second most popular selection out there, so when preschool teacher Elise Senecal, 30, started taking it aged 15, she had no idea what impact it could have on her.
Throughout her 11 years of taking the contraceptive pill, Senecal tried a few different versions with varied side effects, from headaches, insomnia and nausea. These were obvious at the time, but it's only now that she's come off the pill that Senecal thinks there may have been another major impact the pill was having without realizing back then.
Senecal, from Quebec, Canada, dated men for most of her existence without ever questioning her sexuality, and she was in three long-term relationships throughout her time on the pill. Until, at the age of 26 when she stopped taking it, she suddenly began questioning who she was attracted to.
Senecal not only felt attracted to men, but she realized she had an interest in women too.
There are limited studies which look into whether this is a possible side effect of the pill, but study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science revealed that women who were no longer taking the pill were attracted to "alternative mates" during a
I stopped taking the pill — now I’m gay
A woman who always identified as straight claims her sexuality has changed since coming off the contraceptive pill.
Tessa Bona first started taking the pill as a teenager in order to help adjust her periods, and remained on it for the next 15 years.
The now 30-year-old said she was never sexually attracted to the same sex and had only ever dated men.
But after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend/girlfriend last year, Tessa, from Melbourne, decided it was the perfect time to own a break from taking the pill each day.
This is when she says “everything changed” – and within three weeks, she felt like a “completely different person”.
“I had never given women a depart romantically, I never really thought that was for me,” Tessa told news.com.au.
“In saying that, I always could appreciate a woman’s beauty.
“But once I got off the pill, everything changed.”
Tessa said the transform she felt in herself was almost instantaneous. Within a month, she was dating girls – something she never imagined she would do.
“Within three weeks, I felt like an entirely different person,” she explained.
“I had so much more energy, I
'Stopping the Pill turned me gay': Bizarre case of 28-year-old woman's sudden sexuality change is FOURTH linked to contraceptive
A woman has sensationally claimed that coming off the Pill left her 'disgusted' by men and 'turned me lesbian'.
Amy Parker, from Adelaide in Australia, ditched her hormonal birth manage in February after ending her seven-year relationship with her ex-boyfriend.
But it was only when the 28-year-old began to date again in May that the thought of rendezvous men filled her with 'unease'.
After changing her dating app filters to 'women-only' she says she underwent a 'sexual awakening' and could now 'never travel back to men'.
She believes the 13 years she spent on the famous form of hormonal contraception somehow masked her true identity.
It comes after three women told MailOnline last year how they also only realised they were gay after coming of the Pill for the first time themselves.
There is little explore in this area, but the internet is awash with anecdotes of the same thing happening.
The Pill has a long list of possible side-effects — from weight secure and nausea, to breast tenderness and menstrual cycle changes.
Amy Parker, from Ade
The allure of alternative mates
Source: Gurit Birnbaum
A high-quality romantic association offers many benefits, including better health and higher reproductive fitness. In their attempt to build such a beneficial relationship, people are guided by mechanisms that evolved to help them recognize the most suitable person in their social milieu.
For example, they show a preference for body odor that signals compatibility with potential mates' immune system.1 When they come across such a desirable partner, people typically strive to maintain the relationship by employing strategies that protect it against the allure of alternative mates (e.g., being less observant to and devaluing the attractiveness of alternatives).2
Commonly used contraceptive pills may switch natural mate preferences however. These pills introduce hormones that suppress ovulation and lead to temporary fertility loss, similarly to what happens during pregnancy. Consequently, heterosexual women's interpretation of men may serve a other function than that occurring around ovulation: They may pursue a cooperative companion who assists with child care rather than a genetically compatible partner.3 Women may theref