Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.

There's evidence that women may switch methods of birth control or stop using the pill because they think it contributes to weight gain.

We have known for a long time that 30 to 40 percent of women on birth control pills have decreased libido.

When you put someone on the birth control pill, you block a lot of the ovarian production [of testosterone].

Beyond a year, we don't know [what happens]. The question is, does the birth control pill imprint on the body a signal to continue making this protein that attaches to the testosterone? If so, these women would have less testosterone.