Yeah BC pills, tragically, generally reduce female sex drive. Honestly I think it's a terrible and dangerous idea to fuck with hormone levels like that. It's partly due to the horrific reaction my ex had to them (to all the ones she tried but the last one was by far the worst), but I'm glad this girl isn't on them, even though it means we have to use condoms. I'll never ask another girl to go on them. If she's on them and it works for her, that's cool, but I just think they're a bad idea.
Ever looked into neem oil? In India they use it as a non-hormonal male birth control method... take 4-6 drops per day in a capsule, and apparently it reduces sperm motility (temporarily) to the point where you can't get someone pregnant. Apparently the rate of effectiveness is very high. They've done studies over there and it doesn't seem there is really any health risk. During the time me and my ex stopped using condoms or birth control I did that and never got her pregnant (I didn't pull out either)... I'd be pretty nervous 100% relying on it but it's interesting.
On this topic: There's a lot of research showing that going on the pill causes significant changes in mating behavior. Basically, it induces a shift from favoring MHC-dissimilar mates towards favoring MHC-similar mates. See here for some of the related research:
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1652/2715
The unfortunate implication here is that coming off the pill could affect the health of a relationship that was started while on the pill. Sure enough, there's research suggesting higher levels of trait jealousy in women who change their contraceptive status mid-relationship.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886913002110
And
this article in Scientific American claims that women who choose their partner while on the pill are more likely to express marital dissatisfaction and cheat. All in all it's an ugly business, even before you get into all the science suggesting that birth control can cause/perpetuate depression, increase the likelihood of cancer, etc. Obviously it's a mixed bag though, because birth control is also
very useful for reducing symptoms in women with a tough menstrual cycle.
PS: I used to hate Kesha, but for whatever strange reason she grew on me. I actually have a lot of respect for her as an artist, for precisely the reason that a lot of people hate her: She purposefully embraced the image of a trashy, promiscuous, low-brow party animal in the midst of a culture that spends a lot of time slut-shaming its stars. And she was wildly successful for it. I'm not saying you have to like her music, and I'm not even saying that her message is a good one. But the fact that her message exists--the fact that there's a female voice out there embracing all of those attributes that we tend to apply critically to women--is itself a very
very good message. That being said, I'm still not entirely sure whether this is just dumb luck on her part, or if this was the intent behind her branding in the first place. People
claim that she's brilliant, but I don't think she comes across as particularly intelligent in interviews.
But she
is hot. XD