For those who believe that birth control regulates your period, Emily attests that “you don’t get a period on birth control” but rather “a withdraw bleed from withdrawing from the fake hormones,” like “fake progesterone, fake estrogen.”

And for those who praise non-hormonal birth control methods, such as the increasingly popular copper IUD, Emily says that not only is “copper toxicity a big issue,” but also that copper “increases estrogen” and actually “[inflames] your uterus.”

Further, teenagers and young women who are put on birth control “are 70% more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication.”

But that’s not the only “psychological impact” hormonal birth control can have, apparently.

“You also may be more likely to be bisexual if you are on the pill and that it can actually change who you are attracted to,” says Allie, referencing Dr. Sarah Hill. “I’ve also heard the argument that women may be ... more attracted to more feminine men ... when they are on the pill.”

“This is true,” says Emily. “There’s data, there’s studies” to confirm this.

“One of the [studies] they did is they showed women on birth control ... AI mockups of men, and then they slightly feminized their features,” Emily explains. “Women on birth control chose the men with more feminine features.”

There was also a study called “the sweaty T-shirt test,” which involved having “a bunch of different men work out in these sweaty T-shirts and put them in bags.” Then female test subjects — some of whom were on birth control and others who were not — were instructed to “smell them, essentially smelling their pheromones.”

They found that “the women who were on birth control chose the scent of men who were more genetically similar to them,” which Emily says is problematic considering “the most viable, resilient offspring” demand “someone with the DNA farthest from you.”