What on Earth?! Whether you did it for a dare or out of sheer curiosity, only taking the one shouldn\u2019t cause you problems. More than once might bring about some changes\u2026 <\/p>
Good news: nothing will happen if <\/span>he<\/span>\u00a0only took one. There\u2019s a one in four chance that the pill was a dummy anyway, as most packets include seven tablets with no drugs in them (meant to maintain the habit of taking the pill while the \u2018withdrawal bleed\u2019 happens).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If\u00a0<\/span>he<\/span>\u00a0regularly took the \u2018combined pill\u2019, which contains oestrogen and progestogen hormones, it would have mild feminising effects, such as wider hips, softer skin and slight breast development.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The oestrogen dose is about a tenth of that taken by transgender women, but it\u2019s a form of oestrogen associated with higher risks of deep vein thrombosis, so it wouldn\u2019t be a good idea for anyone wanting to transition.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Regularly taking a progestogen-only pill would have the main impact of reducing\u00a0<\/span>his<\/span>\u00a0sperm count and libido.<\/span><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n What on Earth?! Whether you did it for a dare or out of sheer curiosity, only taking the one shouldn\u2019t cause you problems. More than once might bring about some changes\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27282,"template":"","categories":[30],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill.jpg",1896,1069,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill-768x433.jpg",768,433,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill-1024x577.jpg",800,451,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill-1536x866.jpg",1536,866,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/05\/heres-what-happens-if-a-man-takes-a-contraceptive-pill.jpg",1896,1069,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What on Earth?! Whether you did it for a dare or out of sheer curiosity, only taking the one shouldn\u2019t cause you problems. More than once might bring about some changes\u2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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