FFP 604 | Does The Pill Shrink Vulvar Tissues? | FAMM Research Series
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Can hormonal birth control shrink vulvar tissues and impair sexual function? In this FAMM Research Series episode, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack reviews one of the most controversial studies on the long-term effects of combined oral contraceptives and the vaginal ring on clitoral size, vulvar blood flow, and sexual satisfaction.
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| 0:00.0 | As a women's health professional, you already know how many of your clients are coming to you with the regular cycles, hormone imbalances, mysterious period issues, and many of our fan practitioners have already started charting their own cycles, but transferring that to your clients is not as easy as it sounds. |
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| 0:53.8 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 604. |
| 1:01.0 | In today's episode, we are diving right into the controversy. |
| 1:09.2 | We are going to go over what I consider one of the most |
| 1:12.8 | controversial studies. And if there was one time that I've ever gone viral, this was many years ago, |
| 1:20.0 | it was because of the study. It was because I posted on social media about the study and the findings |
| 1:23.6 | and I was fully like attacked and it went like crazy because you know this sample size is too |
| 1:28.8 | small and you can't use this and you're going to scare women off of the pill and all that stuff so |
| 1:33.6 | we're going to go into why so the title of the study is super long but the gist of it is that |
| 1:38.6 | they're looking at clitoral vascularization and sexual behavior in women who are using the pill. And they're comparing a small |
| 1:46.6 | group of women who are using the pill to a small group of women who are using the vaginal ring. |
| 1:52.1 | There's a couple of things I want to point out about the study right off the bat that I will |
| 1:56.2 | get to later on. And I think the most important thing to keep in mind, even before we go into it, |
| 2:02.3 | is that this study, while it was done many years ago, it has never been repeated. So I'm |
| 2:10.4 | just going to leave that right there and come back to it. All right. So the reason that this |
| 2:15.7 | study is so controversial, of course, is because of what it found. |
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