![]() This could be because, as science historian Elizabeth Siegel Watkins notes, marketing around the Pill began to change in the 1990s, with oral contraceptives being promoted not just as a birth-control method but as a “lifestyle” drug with a host of benefits, like treating acne or diminishing menstrual pain. In high school in Toronto in the early-aughts, it seemed like every girl I knew was put on it, for some reason or another, whether or not she was sexually active. ![]() While there are a number of other popular hormonal- birth-control methods, such as the IUD and the NuvaRing, none enjoy the popularity and cultural significance of the Pill. Since it came on the market in 1960, the Pill - a catchall term for a variety of oral contraceptives containing differing combinations of synthetic hormones - has been the most common form of birth control used in the United States, utilized at some point by four out of five sexually active women. ![]() ![]() Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha Photos: GettyĮvery day since I was 15 years old, I have taken “ the Pill,” a pale-pink tablet containing a combination of levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol, two chemicals that trick my body into thinking it’s pregnant so I can’t actually get pregnant. ![]()
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