Birth control pills shape normative ideas about sex, female sexuality, desire, and the use of female bodies. Even when prescribed for PCOS or other reasons that do not have to do with preventing pregnancy, birth control is called birth control. Its name indicates that it is first and foremost thought to be used by women because they do not want to get pregnant while having sex. This notion perpetrates normative ideas about sexuality and sex. First of all, it upholds the belief “‘that women are innately sexually oriented’ toward men'' as illustrated by feminist Adrienne Rich in "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." (1) Women will be on birth control because they always will be attracted to men and, thus, be at risk of getting pregnant. Furthermore, there is the assumption that “‘real’ sex is (hetero)sexual intercourse” with “an erection... for (vaginal) penetration.” (2) Thus, women need birth control as the only way they can have “real” sex is through heterosexual intercourse with vaginal penetration, which again puts them at risk of getting pregnant. However, women themselves are often not seen as sexual creatures that want to have sex out of their own volition. Often in media, “female sexual dysfunction is rarely framed as a question of inability to have intercourse, but rather usually involves lack of desire.” Since women are not viewed by society as being innately sexual and having strong sex drives, taking birth control is often not seen as being for her personal enjoyment to have sex. Instead, she takes it so that she can be “a sexual commodity to be consumed by males.” (3) Thus, the female body becomes a readily available object to be used by men. Overall, the practice of calling birth control birth control and, hence, believing its primary purpose is to stop pregnancy continues normative ideas about the female body, sexuality, sex, and sexual desire.