Cruel irony of taking the contraceptive pill

I’m 25 and started going out with my boyfriend two years ago. Shortly after that I started taking the combined pill. Could it be to blame for my low libido?

Although the pill does what it is supposed to (if you remember to take it every day), few women escape the smorgasbord of side-effects, such as irregular bleeding, nausea, breast tenderness, weight gain, headaches, mood swings, blood clots, varicose veins, and thrombosis.

Taking the pill is such a lottery that many of the 100m women worldwide who do would argue that the real reason they don’t get pregnant is because oral contraception makes them so fat and irritable that no one wants to have sex with them.