Fewer and fewer Groningen students and young people are using contraceptives. This is also evident from the national research by the Rutgers bureau. STDs such as chlamydia and gonorrhea are therefore more common.
Practice doctor Maarten Goedhart from StudentArt: “Having an STD is annoying, because you can get infections from chlamydia and gonorrhea, as well as urethral infections, uterine infections, ectopic pregnancies and, in men, prostatitis.”
Goedhart sees that both the pill and the condom are less popular. He quotes the figures from the Rutgers study: “In 2017, 76 percent still used the pill, which is now 46 percent. 70 percent of boys use a condom the first time they have sex, but this drops to 60 percent the second time. So those percentages are dropping.”
According to students, girls take the pill less often because of the large list of side effects. A student says: “You often hear that contraception can change your hormone levels.” Someone else adds: “It can change your mood, make you depressed, gain weight… Yes, lots of side effects.”
According to Goedhart, the fear of changes in hormone balance is unfounded: “We have been prescribing the pill for decades. If this causes major problems, that would have been known a long time ago.”
2024-01-31 17:03:00
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