Desrtopa comments on Many of us *are* hit with a baseball once a month. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 23 December 2010 03:42:08AM 3 points [-]

My understanding is that it's been practical to prevent menstruation with birth control pills for decades, but only recently have pharmaceutical companies started marketing and advertising pills for that purpose. Previously they were all sold in sets with placebos on the assumption that women wouldn't want to disrupt the cycle they were familiar with.