The contraceptive pill turns 60. It has revolutionized the relationship between the sexes. But why was it designed for women and not for men?

When the first pill for women was launched on August 18, 1960, with Enovid, the Catholic Church railed against politicians wanting to ban it. But nothing can prevent their triumphal march - the pill revolutionises society, the gender roles change radically. For the first time in history, women have the opportunity to separate sex and reproduction.

But today, on the occasion of its sixtieth birthday, we are seeing the third generation of women, who naturally grew up with the pill, question this concept. The willingness to bear the considerable health risks for a free sexuality of both sexes decreases. More and more women refuse to swallow the pill. They ask themselves: why are we alone responsible for contraception - why does the pill for men not exist already?

Already in the 1950s, when US physicians gave sex hormones for contraception to humans, they searched for the pill for both men and women. What has become of it?

While women have been suffering from the strong side effects of birth control pills for 60 years to have free sex, it still does not exist today, the pill for men - despite constantly recurring announcements. Are the reasons really only medical in nature? Or is there in fact a structural, social problem that is being shifted to the privacy of women? An inside story about the logic of decisions in society, pharmaceutical industry and research.

Based on this, we open our eyes to the question: will contraception even be an issue in the near future? Or will all of them, as young people, in the prime of their fertility, ova and sperm, be removed and frozen before being sterilized to finally decouple sex and parenthood?