Contraception. The pill, the IUD, the implant, the condom — the technology that made every later phase optional.
It is a product you buy, first appearing 1960 — the pill.
It exists to relieve Manage sex, contraception, and infection without a parent and Decide when, or whether, the next child comes. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Reproductive medicine and Pharmaceutical industry. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
4 organisations in this map sell it, 3 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionContraception
- FrictionManage sex, contraception, and infection without a parent
- Life phaseEarly adulthood
- Rooted inReproduction
- Rooted inSafety
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayer | $30B | public · BAYN | pharma, consumer health, crop science |
| Church & Dwight | $25B | public · CHD | Arm & Hammer, Trojan, First Response pregnancy tests |
| Organon | $3B | public · OGN | Nexplanon, NuvaRing, women's health |
| Planned Parenthood | nonprofit | sexual and reproductive health clinics |