By skyforbes 
Love potions are basically the secret “unforgivable curse” (that’s legal) and were even banned from Hogwarts until Professor Slughorn changed the curriculum in HBP
Snape claimed that someone conceived from a love potion will be incapable of experiencing love, yet a future mother has never been the victim of this… almost always the father
The female characters are often portrayed as the “hysterical” ones who are basically hypnotizing their failed male suitors into coercion:
Merope Gaunt (dosed Tom Riddle sr)
Ismelda Murke (hid it in Barnaby Lee’s sandwich in Hogwarts Mystery)
Romilda Vane (meant to dose Harry but Ron took it instead)
Molly Weasley (brewed but never used)
Hermione Granger (falsely accused by Pansy Parkinson)
Lockhart (asked Snape to brew students some for Valentine’s Day)
Fred and George Weasley (sold them at the joke shop… never used it on women themselves)
As you can see, only women and girls seem to store/use love potion in the HP universe
The boys and men usually only brew it for someone else and find it to be a ridiculous idea
This seems like a gender imbalance… so why?