to mr.gavin gore if only you were in women place you would have change that talk of yours. i agree with what these scientist are sayin'. i myself take the Pill and i have changed some of them because some of them gives me mood swings and sometimes feel not interested in men.

fiona Vocage, west bromwich, United Kingdom

This sounds like junk science to me, with lots of mights and maybes and possiblies.

As far as the pill goes, yeah, when you introduce powerful hormones into a normally functioning body, you're going to have dramatic side effects and unintended consequences.

scott, tulsa, USA

I think just as society has been able to find an excuse for their inadequacies, it now seems that researchers have now developed a blame culture for pathetic choices in blaming the victim (the pill) which cannot defend itself.
I wonder what next might be reveleaved , by some bored scientist

shonhayi , corby, united kingdom

LOL women will blame their mood changes on anything now a day....... Your all emotionally unstable... Stop blaming chemicals! I'm also cathloic but I have to say John from Minnesota stop making up statistics your talking Fraff!

gavin gore, luton, beds

Statistically, couples who follow Catholic teaching: have a 0.2% divorce rate; experience happier marriages; are happier & more satisfied in their everyday lives; have considerably more marital relations; share deeper intimacy with spouse; realize a deeper level of communication with spouse.

Robert, Cottonwood, U.S.A.

Whatever else the Pill does or doesn't do I don't think it's made the search for true love easier. Freed from the potential of pregnancy people have turned to rutting with each other without ever developing the attachments and true intimacy of a real relationship.

John, Minnesota, United States

Elle magazine reported this story five years ago.

Susanne, Norfolk, U.S.

Don't try to rewrite the history of the cultural revolution that fostered this type of contraception because you've got the benefit of hindsight. The pill met the desires of women. If it hadn't we wouldn't be reading this story now.

Mark, Wilmington, USA

We've all been lying to ourselves through the media. Sex is not for cheap thrills and entertainment. It is a Sacred Universal Power that brings life into physical embodiment. Amazing. To treat it with any less respect than that is to court disaster.

Paul, Seattle, USA

choices are presented to us now that have not filtered through the moral standards of the church. does the church need to catch up with life or vice versa?

Jayson, Lyndhurst, NJ,

The point the feminists never make is that the he pill primarily benefits men. It allows men to have uncomitted sex with any woman they can talk into bed. The perks of the "sexual revolution" accrue almost completely to men and only served to enslave women with the false promise of freedom.

William, San Fran, US of A

A pill to make women unattracted to men? I think men do a fine job of that themselves without any pill.

Stephanie, Little Rock, AR, United States

Before Pill, I was extremely moody, grumpy and witchy before and during my time of the month, and PMS pain was so bad that in college I'd skip class. I even had pain when I ovulated that no medicine could help. I'm much happier now because I dont have to deal with pain.

Anne, KC,

I think that the old moral of one parter for life, in the confines of marriage, is the only sensible course of action for the sexual relationship.
You don't even need the pill amazing!!!
Undoubtedly many will feel controversy over this comment.

Steve, Virginia, USA

The pill is responsible for Autism.

Davy Jones, Luton,

I am a woman, and I am one of the 25% that have been sexually assaulted. Being on the pill allowed me the freedom NOT to have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. Being on the pill is better for a womans body in the long term than having multiple abortions. Scent has little bearing in the big picture

Kristen , Tokyo, Japan

to the guys who mentioned moody girlfriends, you are told when you go on the pill that there's a period of adjustment up to 3 months

Poppy, Toronto,

The Pill? I thought it was wedding cake

Tom, Royal Oak, MI, USA

Ha! This is from a University based in a city where the women have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe; the women look like aliens with their glowing fake tans; the women wear their pijamas to the supermarket, and wear their socks on the outside of their tracksuit! Im not worried!!!

Tim O, Liverpool, UK

I use the pill and do know that it affects and changes my behavior daily. I do not ever want children and I am "not old enough" to make the decision to my body altered so I can not have children. This does not leave a lot of choices for woman in my situation.

S, mpls,

i think that each exhusband should sue their ex wives if they were on the pill b4 they got married. sue them for false attraction and wasting their lives for duplicitous love. if this is true women have alot to answer for.

ED, long island , usa

Contraception seems, on the surface, to be an answer but has actually lead to the further degradation of women and the turning of men into jellyfish.

The Mayo Clinic reported that girls who are on the pill for up to four years before their first preg have a more than 30% chance of breast cancer.

Matt, Ochoa, USA

this explains a lot of things in my life

mo, davis, usa/ca

Over the last 15 years I've had three girl friends that got on the pill.
I saw changes in their personalities for the worse (short tempered and mean). My most recent girlfriend changed over to an IUD and the disorders went away. Apparently the pill works by making you not want to have sex. LOL

kris, sacramento,

Far from liberating women, the pill is a mass-medicalisation bia hormonal control of women. It forces a false hormonal pattern on woman denying her own feelings and self-expression. It also depletes the system of vitamins and minerals vital for her own and any subsequent child's heatlh.

J.E.Poole, Romsey, UK

Midol makes daily living much less painful.

John, Springfield, USA

I have been taking the Pill for years and now that I am off of it, I definitely notice a difference. Now, I am interested in my husband again, and J.Wright had it right. I was down right evil to my husband and after years of this, we both finally feel free.

jess, fredericksburg, us

Some women take the pill because of health problems - bleeding disorders, for instance, make the pill a lifesaving drug, and for women with endometriosis, it makes daily living much less painful. It's not an ethical question whether or not to take the pill for some - it's a health-based one.

Melissa, Seattle, USA

John in Dallas, you got everything backwards. Only women ON the pill prefer macho cavemen. Women NOT ON the pill prefer metrosexuals. Also, the theory of evolution has been studied and verified by thousands if not hundreds of thousands of scientists over the past 100+ years. Texas public schools!

Chris Thomas, Brooklyn, USA

I conducted a small study of my own. My pleasant, jocular and gregarious girlfriend began talking the Pill and within a couple days she was downright nasty, impatient and mean.

She decided she couldn't take them anymore before I brought it up.

That is the sum of my experience with the Pill.

J. Wright, Eugene, Oregon,

Nate, Besides being unpractical, "pulling out" is not an effective method of contraception. Some semen has already been deposited.

John, Atlanta, USA

Hopefully, when they finally unleash the male contraceptive pill I can start attracting the wrong kind of women, and balance things out a bit.

patrick, Hague, Netherlands

Roger, we have adopted evolution as fact and Darwin figured out all of evolution by spending 5 weeks on an island? At least there is a true sample in this case.

The fact of the matter is that the pill has made women more attractive to metrosexuals. That's why our societyis becoming feminized.

john, dallas, USA

If it puts the woman off her man it achieves its aim by one means or another

John Ledbury, Kings Lynn, England

The Catholic Church has been saying this for 40 years in the document on Human Life (HUMANAE VITAE). and recently Pope John Paul again addresses it in the Theology of the Body outlined by Christopher West. This is not new, but it is news.

Bob Stanislaw, Stillwater, USA

alan, Naples what rubbish it can also mean we don"t want children right now or we've had kids and don't want to be sterilized yet. Sex should be fun and individual choice is not a sin.

Andy, uk,

Contrary to popular belief, women do make mistakes on their own, pill or no pill. tradition does exist for a reason, a minority of women have changed the rules for the majority, promiscuity is now normal. Women are the root cause of problems in relationships if you ask people that know, men!

jack, emsworth,

This can't be so. If the research is confirmed it would provide a reason for failing or misguided relationships which is NOT a man's fault. According to all women's magazines and TV shows, men are the root cause of all problems in relationships. Gosh forbid a woman might just be choosing wrong.

Pal I., Orlando FL, USA

What they don't include is cultural influence. As to autism, it has been around forever, they just diagnose it more. As to interfering with natural processes, many people's bodies natural processes have to be corrected by medication.

alysse, Charlottetown, USA

Undoutedly, one of the "great" hatchet jobs I've heard in years!! Don't belive it girls! I'm a 76 year old widow - one of the 1st on the pill. After our family was complete the pill gave my husband and I the freedom to LOVE each other without fear of having more children than we could afford.

JoAnn, Ft. Lauderdale, USA

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to statistically investigate the number of relationship break-ups involving females who just stopped using the pill?

That would give some insight in changing preferences, I guess...

Sander, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Do women need another excuse to change there mind for apprently no reason - i think not.
Is smell really the most important of attraction qualities to the ladies. Maybe thats what is so prominant about brad pitt and clooney, not the good looks or the money but they smell nice. Come on.

Joseph Thomas, Guildford,

The Pill is a medicine that drastically alters the behaviour of a perfectly healthy body. Would we tolerate any other drug that interrupts perfect function of a system? This study, i believe, highlights the 'unnaturalness' of the Pill. We mess with nature - we pay the price.

Catherine R., Cairns, Australia

This is not a new revelation. It was reported in Scientific America over 20 years ago. Also, the pill has never been a boon to women. It has enslaved rather than freed them. It has opened them up to various sexual diseases, pregnancies out of wedlock to men they really didn't love, and poverty.

John D. Rossmiller, Donegal, USA

Race and scent are completely different arenas, man. Let's let the science pan out before we start jumping and yelling.

Justin Meyer, Roseville, CA, USA

The Pill is a great help for women with PMS. Sometimes your natural hormonebalance is out of balance and the Pill brings back the balance and calms you down. And another thing: It is a known fact that people are more attracted to people who are like them, because they understand each other better.

Jerusha, Amsterdam, Holland

You want to know what true reproductive freedom really is? It's making love with my husband without being afraid. It's knowing that each child conceived is a blessing; not a 'mistake.' It's knowing the best sex is married sex when each spouse is unselfish. It's 8 amazing children. It's family.

janis, tooele, USA

All I can say is I wonder whether the increase in 'unexplained infertility' has anything to do with the pill... it certainly has in the Chinese medical sense of things!

DD, London,

I don't believe a word of this. If it's true, why am I not constantly being accosted by hot 20-somethings on the Pill who are suddenly attracted to fat, middle-aged couch potatoes? I rest my case.

Eric, Park City, USA

Does this mean that white women for example are likely to be more attracted to black males, and vice versa, because they are more likely to have different genes, than the white male brought up in the same country??? it makes sense so let me know if my rationing is wrong or what you guys think.

Davey, walton, england

Jim you appear to miss the point. No one said family. Was your oversight intentional?

Jack Lee, USA,

Scary stuff if true. But it might explain some things...

Jack Lee, USA,

They've completely failed to mention the socio-cultural aspects the underpin relationships- genetics plays a major role in our existence, but could cultural preferences and social trends perhaps overide scent preferences?

M, London,

When a couple contracepts, they invert the very purpose of the procreative act. They may say "I love you and accept you totally" in words, but what they say with their bodies is "sex is only for pleasure, I do not accept your fertility and am not committed to what this act implies".

alan, Naples, United States

I personally have known two people who died, in which the doctors said that they were almost certain the ultimate cause was the pill, though they would never be able to prove it. One was a neighbour's wife, the other a friends girlfriend (in her twenties).

The pill should be banned.

Greg Lorriman, Leatherhead, UK

Just pull out!

Nate, Toledo, USA

Mother Teresa's quote can only be understood in context - the beliefs of (true) Catholics. Whether you believe the teachings of the Catholic faith or not (those who do not should not call themselves Catholic), her statement is based on the Catholic understanding of the sanctity of life and marriage

Bob, Fairfax, USA

Wonder if this is in any way linked to the quantifiable surge in autism in the Western world? The law of unintended consequences. Bio-evolutionary mechanisms that have developed over millions of years are similar to plug sockets - don't put your fingers in them.

kevin, Lincoln, UK

The estrogen released into our water supply by millions of women using the Pill has also effected humans, and marine life. All you have to do is Google it, there are a lot of scientific studies. Also, this may be one of the reasons of increased homosexual behavior in our society.

Eve, Budapest, Hungary

“In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self. This . . . destroys the gift of love in him or her” Mother Teresa

Err yeah right, so a woman who uses contraception doesn't love her family anymore? Doesn't love her children? Come on...

Jim, Tokyo,

It is hard to improve on nature, creation - whatever you choose to call it.

Brian Musah, Hertford , UK

Dear Robert,

I'm sure that there are people that also said the same about; computers, the internet, televisions, aircraft, MRI scanners and even the contraceptive pill itself - some people are even suggesting that the earth may be spherical.

John, KL, Malaysia

How can scientists make such a statement on a survey /testing of a miniscule group of 97 women and come out with what I consider a preposterous
conclusion .Every day we hear about this scientific reseach
that says this is fact .they are just trying to justify thier reseach

Roger Port, Alcala, Spain