Is RAW PAPAYA (Kacha Papita) a Contraceptive? - Seema Anand StoryTelling
Channel: Seema Anand StoryTelling
Date: 2023-09-16

Responsible, safe sex is the most pleasurable sex! Let’s talk about why…

I call the “raw papaya contraception” theory unsafe because it leads to precisely what you do not want - unwanted pregnancies and a LOT of complications.

The “raw papaya” theory, much like the “cardamom contraception” theory has 2 main problems.
1. No one knows where it came from but we will believe it because “our ancestors said so and our ancestors were very scientific”.
2. These “remedies” are always suggested for women whereas most of the time any possible affects/impacts are actually on the man and his sperm count.

For instance, studies have told us, if a man eats A COUPLE KILOS of cardamom at a time it “can potentially” affect his sperm count, however a woman eating 2 cardamoms before sex will simply give her fresh breath fresh but will have absolutely NO impact on her ability to get pregnant.
But it is still the women who are advised to eat them.
It has been tried, it has failed and it has left people in a real mess.

Similarly there are those who believe that the papaya contains an enzyme that “can potentially” reduce progesterone which “may potentially” help in making the uterus an “inhospitable environment” - basically in the middle of a lot of “ifs”, “buts” and “maybes” there is a small chance that you many not get pregnant.
There is not even any agreement on whether it should be papaya seeds, raw papaya or ripe papaya (if you look it up online everyone has a different view) and yet people are happy to risk their sexual health on this unfounded idea.
In some lab tests, it was shown that papaya seeds reduced sperm count in male rats but it has not been proven to have any impact on uterine conditions.

Please use proper contraception - there is a huge choice of options available in the market.
Be safe, not sorry!!!
Expert - Dr. Amita Sharma MBBS, MD
Obstetrician and gynaecologist @eve.consult
centralhospital@gmail.com