Today I fired off a "freaky question" that has long haunted me to the authors of Freakonomics.

Wouldn't it be funny if they liked my question and decided to try to find an answer?

I wonder if I'll get a response?

For the unbearably curious, my freakish question was "Is the contraceptive pill a home-wrecker?" Details are here (sorry, Icelandic) and here. However, re-reading my old blog on the subject, I might also have asked "is the contraceptive pill causing entire generations to have weak immune systems?"

I find these questions fascinating. Maybe that makes me, not the question, a bit freaky. ;-)

Update: Well look at that, someone did actually do some related research since I last looked into this.

Page six of "The Smell of Love" discusses almost exactly the scenarios I wonder about, warning of underweight babies and troubles conceiving to boot. I think it's funny that the article stops just short of giving what strikes me as the obvious advice: women looking for lasting romance should avoid taking the pill...

That would probably have offended and bothered too many readers. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to come up with comparable advice for men. :-P