Hell of a thread.https://twitter.com/designmom/status/1040363431893725184 …
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Replying to @erinrileyau
I like the thread, but dammit people need to stop saying that male hormonal contraceptive trials were stopped because side-effects that are less problematic than the pill it's far more complicated than that
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Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau
From memory, in that trial, the male satisfaction with the method was a tick higher than the female satisfaction. If you're stuck for grumpy clinical trial stuff to write about, the response to that study is a gold mine.
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Replying to @jamesheathers @erinrileyau
Yeh it's been astonishing. Next time it does the rounds I just might, it irks me no end that people completely discount the issues that the study raised
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Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau
I saw some suggestions of "well, original studies on hormonal contraception were shitty god-awful medically-negligent horror-shows from the 1970s, so, you know, what's good for the goose..." Top medical ethics on display there.
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Replying to @jamesheathers @erinrileyau
Yes how dare we hold modern studies to more rigorous standards than the ethics that brought us the Tuskegee and Stanford Prison experiments
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I'll put it on the backburner. Have to finish a blog on why drinking young people's blood is stupid, of all things
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Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers
Yeah, it's absolutely far more complicated than that. But the idea that we just accept the pretty major side-effects of the Pill without much thought is also worth examining.
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Replying to @erinrileyau @jamesheathers
Do we? The main reason the pill is still prescription only is because of concern over side-effects. I feel like the side effects are mostly considered less problematic by doctors than pregnancy, but that's more of a public health perspective I guess?
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Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers
I guess I am approaching it more socially- the expectation that women will "just go on the pill" when they're in heterosexual LTRs, despite the fact it can be deeply unpleasant, is v frustrating. Take-up of newer, better hormonal birth control options is still low
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I can see the frustration there. I think there's certainly an imbalance between male and female contraception, and it's often expressed unfairly in relationships. I think the best expression is actually in the rates of vasectomy vs tubal ligation as @DrJenGunter has written
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Replying to @BabbyUnit @GidMK and
Do you not understand that the castration suggestion is a rhetorical technique, not an actual literal suggestion.
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End of conversation
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