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CajunRick
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Posted: Mon Jan 28th, 2008 01:42 am |
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I wonder if anyone else read last week's Time Magazine article on romantic love called Why We Love? There is a paragraph in there that I find rather astounding, and that is that there is actual scientific evidence that use of the birth control pill may contribute to a woman's inability to pick a proper mate, thus leading to the tremendous increase in the divorce rate. It has to do with a genetic marker known as MHC. If a man and a woman have too-similar MHC markers, their chances of a miscarriage are greatly increased.
Women have the ability to sense similarities or differences in MHC. In controlled tests, women sniffed the T-shirts of men and invariably picked the T-shirts of the men who's MHC markers were most compatible with (that is, the most different from) their own.
Unless they were on the pill.
To quote the article:Precise as the MHC-detection system is, it can be confounded. One thing that throws us off the scent is the birth-control pill. Women who are on the Pill--which chemically simulates pregnancy--tend to choose wrong in the T-shirt test. When they discontinue the daily hormone dose, the protective smell mechanism kicks back in. "A colleague of mine wonders if the Pill may contribute to divorce," says [Charles] Wysocki [of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia]. "Women pick a husband when they're on birth control, then quit to have a baby and realize they've made a mistake."
How many women choose a husband and end up divorcing while pregnant or soon after bearing a child? Or even if they stay together, it is "for the sake of the children" and is merely prolonging a doomed relationship?
Maybe God and the Church are right after all!!!
(Some Time articles are available only to subscribers, which I am. I'm not sure how long this article will be available to non-subscribers.)
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sewnsew
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Posted: Mon Jan 28th, 2008 02:42 am |
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Boy would I like to send that link to my family- they have sent every article on the benefits of oral contraceptives that have ever been published ! I am not up to stirring up controversy though- I get enough flak with out actually asking for it
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CajunRick
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Posted: Mon Jan 28th, 2008 03:53 am |
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kimdyuma wrote: Boy would I like to send that link to my family- they have sent every article on the benefits of oral contraceptives that have ever been published !
The online article is four pages long, and the section on contraception is in the middle of the second page.
And there is a link to email it to someone else. It's really an interesting article that covers the biological benefits of romance, and part of a collection of articles that examine, among other things, the way women manipulate men with that cute little head tilt and hair flip that every guy is a sucker for.
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Ali
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Posted: Tue Jan 29th, 2008 02:27 pm |
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CajunRick wrote: Maybe God and the Church are right after all!!!
Ya' think?
Ali
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