The Psychological Impact Of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr Sarah Hill - #555

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... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:23) How Hormonal Changes Influence Behaviour (07:27) Learning About Hormones Shouldn’t Be Uncomfortable for Women (15:57) The Consequences of Using Hormonal Birth Control (29:03) Is Birth Control a Cause of the Mating Crisis? (40:44) How Birth Control Impacts Sexual Orientation (46:23) Does Birth Control Increase Depression? (54:38) Can Men Sense Ovulation in Women? (1:02:12) Looking t…