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.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I prefer external contraceptive devices to internal ones. And I do not think there is an easy solution to this “feeling” problem. Better to take less risk than to get your partner pregnant when you do not want to. If you want the 2 minutes of reward, I guess the risk is going to be high.