#555 - Dr Sarah Hill - The Psychological Impact Of Hormonal Birth Control
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Dr Sarah Hill is a psychologist and professor at TCU whose research focusses on women, health, and sexual psychology.
Women ovulate, and this changes their behaviour across their cycle. Unless they take hormonal birth control that is, in which case their behaviour changes even more dramatically in ways that no one anticipated and there is evidence to suggest that this might not just be temporary.
Expect to learn why hormonal birth control can make women prioritise wealth in men, why women who come off are less sexually satisfied with partners they chose when they were on birth control, the relationship between taking the pill with anxiety, depression, bisexuality and stress, whether it's a good thing for women to have sex with men who they wouldn't marry and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.8 | My guest today is Dr Sarah Hill. |
| 0:06.3 | She's a psychologist and professor at TCU |
| 0:08.8 | whose research focuses on women, health and sexual psychology. |
| 0:12.9 | Women ovulate and this changes their behavior |
| 0:16.0 | across the cycle unless they take hormonal birth control. |
| 0:19.2 | That is, in which case their behavior changes |
| 0:21.6 | even more dramatically in ways that no one anticipated. |
| 0:25.2 | And there is evidence to suggest |
| 0:27.0 | that this might not just be temporary. |
| 0:29.7 | I expect to learn why hormonal birth control |
| 0:32.3 | can make women prioritize wealth in men. |
| 0:35.2 | Why women who come off are less sexually satisfied |
| 0:38.5 | with partners, they chose when they were on birth control. |
| 0:41.6 | The relationship between taking the pill with anxiety, |
| 0:44.2 | depression, bisexuality and stress, |
| 0:47.1 | whether it's a good thing for women to have sex with men |
| 0:50.0 | who they wouldn't marry and much more. |
| 0:54.2 | This is probably one of the most important conversations |
| 0:58.6 | I think I've had this year. |
| 1:00.4 | Obviously it doesn't directly affect me, |
| 1:02.8 | but then actually based on some of the stuff |
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