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Common causes of anxiety: contraception and anxiety COMMON CAUSES OF ANXIETY: CONTRACEPTION AND ANXIETY
The ready availability of reliable oral contraception has undoubtedly been a significant factor in relieving tens of thousands of women of tension and anxiety. On the other hand the advent of the contraceptive pill has brought tension and guilt to many women who might otherwise have been free of it.
If a woman believes that contraception is morally wrong, or if she is forbidden by her church to use it, and if she follows her conscience in these matters and does not use it, she may still suffer considerable mental tension arising from her knowledge that women all around her are using contraception. As a result, she is constantly under temptation in a manner in which other women are not. This is shown by the way in which many such women do in fact take the pill for a while, then feel guilty about taking it and stop. Then they take it again, and in the same way discontinue it; and so it goes on.
The position of course is much more difficult when husband and wife see the problem of contraception from different points of view. In such cases the unfortunate woman may have contraception forced upon her without consideration of her inner feelings at all.
It is not uncommon for couples who have religious doubts about contraception to feel that sexual withdrawal is less of a sin than chemical means of prevention. But this half measure only leads to further anxiety. There is still the tension from feelings of guilt, and added to this the woman is tensed fearing that her husband will not withdraw in time. In addition, the fact of withdrawing just at the moment when biological fulfilment demands deepest penetration
produces tension in both man and wife. This of course has been known for centuries and was considered by Freud as an important cause of anxiety.
There is yet another important social side-effect of the widespread use of the contraceptive pill. Girls who have been sexually promiscuous in the past are now relieved of much of their anxiety. However, the ready availability of the pill has undoubtedly led many girls into promiscuity who would have otherwise been continent. Many of these young women suffer nervous tension not from doubts about taking the pill itself, but from moral qualms about their new way of life.
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