Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic: people in their teens and early 20s who are more likely to believe what they see on their phones because of algorithms that feed them a stream of videos reinforcing messages often divorced from scientific evidence. While doctors say hormonal contraception — which includes birth-control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) — is safe and effective, they worry the profession’s long-standing lack of transparency about some of the serious but rare side effects has left many patients seeking information from unqualified online communities.

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    make abortion illegal and then create propaganda against birth control… lol…

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        Can you imagine being one production error or briefly misplaced fingernail away from ruining your life? Condoms are reasonably safe, but as your only form of birth control and with no access to abortion, i just wouldn’t risk it. Would be 100% no piv for me.

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          And condoms suck, so there’s a huge temptation for men to remove them for better feel.

          Birth control of all forms should be widely available and people should choose what’s best for them.

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              Have you ever used condoms? I’ve tried pretty much everything, and while the thin ones are a bit better than the thicker ones, they still reduce the feeling substantially. Men have been known to remove it in the moment, and women have been known to “consent” when they otherwise wouldn’t when they’re in the moment.

              Pulling out in time isn’t reliable, and you can still get pregnant even if it’s done “properly” due to pre-cum. It’s just not something I’d recommend for anyone who aren’t in a position where they could get pregnant (e.g. stable relationship and whatnot).

              I absolutely recommend condoms, but ideally they’d be used in addition to other forms of birth control and not be the only line of defense.

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    Hasn’t this been a long standing thing? Woman online will say birth control screws with them, which doesn’t line up with official data.

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      It does have some very real side effects, and it does have some quite rare ones which are incredibly dangerous. But being pregnant has much worse side effects and a much much higher risk of lethality.

      The big difference is that it’s actually keeping people off birth control rather than shifting women to the minipill if they actually have problems.

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        Yeah my ex almost died from her birth control when her incompetent doctor neglected to do the blood tests he was supposed to do while she was on it and had made up his mind that she was full of shit before she even came to him about blacking out randomly and coming to in weird places or her organs slowly shutting down. And when a different doctor made the connection, her main doctor still wanted her to finish her current course, even though it was killing her.

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      Yeah. Somebody set up a bot with multiple accounts on multiple servers, generating tens of thousands of identical comments in numerous communities.

      Unfortunately, mbin and kbin don’t support federated comment removals, so some people still see the spam

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    Women are getting off ಠ⁠◡⁠ಠ birth control amid misinformation explosion Oh …

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