Birth Control

A new study shows women were attracted to less masculine male faces after going on the pill, while their ratings of the attractiveness of female faces were unaffected.

And here’s what comes up when you Google “masculine face.”

What Are We Doing Now That Birth Control Is Free?

Previously: What Do We Have in Common With Michael Phelps?

Ann Friedman isn’t pregnant.

“When women say to me that they want to use the pill, I say, ‘That’s fine, but it’s 20 times less effective than an IUD.’”
 — The IUD giant continues to reawaken from its slumber. (And, in case you missed it, “IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows.”)

“Indeed, the paper suggests that the pill accounted for 30 percent — 30 percent! — of the convergence of men’s and women’s earnings from 1990 to 2000.”

I mean, seriously, it’s not even close.

Of course, women may have to trust that their partners are using birth control, as men do now. But at least one method, hormone implants, visibly bulge from…