IN THE PRESS: EXCERPT FROM ECO 121, BY JULIA KIAUWÉ (TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH)
“Once considered a major social advance, female contraception is increasingly experienced as a constraint, against a backdrop of growing questions about its impact on health.
On the men’s side, doctors are seeing growing demand for couples to share the contraceptive burden.
Among the options, thermal contraception (still very much on the fringe) is gaining ground.
In the region, the very aptly named young company 37 DEGRÉS is one of the finest examples.
It all began in 2021. Gaëlle Burcklé, then a textile design student at Ensci-Les Ateliers in Paris, discovered thermal contraception.
As part of a study project, the young woman, also a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, came up with a reversible, non-hormonal and non-invasive contraceptive boxer. ”
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