Dr. Rachel Rubin

So then we think it's all psychosocial, but it's not.

It's just that the people being the loudest and doing the work are the psychosocial researchers.

And so we don't mentor and fund and support women doing sexual medicine research.

Because if you want to be taken seriously as a woman, you study prostate cancer, you study breast cancer, you study bone health.

You don't study the clitoris, right?

We are the laughingstock of the medical community.

And yet when your orgasm breaks down, who do you go see?

Who takes care of you?

Who can you even talk to about it?

So one other drug I want to cover as far as sexual side effects and this week, you know, I feel like we have to tread lightly because this is like a hot topic political.

Anytime we mention birth control and we talk about proper counseling and shared decision making and side effects, a lot of people get really upset because there seems to be a certain political group that wants to remove all access to contraception.

That is not what we're talking about here.

So I just want to be clear.

These are medications that have side effects.

Walk me through, because this has happened to patients and I didn't know how to help her, that of some of the sexual side effects of being on oral hormonal contraception where we're suppressing ovulation.

Yeah, so the data is...

mixed here, I would say.

And I would love to see more data on it.

But let's think of how birth control works, okay?

Birth control, different kinds of birth control.