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There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons. It makes some gain weight or breast size. It makes some

There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons. It makes some gain weight or breast size. It makes some more emotional. It can increase risk for certain cancers. Among smokers it increases risk of blood clots and strokes. Some women believe (correctly or not) that taking the pill will affect fertility later in life. Mucking with one's endocrinology is serious business, and it's a serious choice for every woman thinking about getting on the pill. If there's this "perfect" side-effect free birth control for men, I know a lot of women who'd rather opt for that. On the other side of it, condoms (and hormonal birth control pill for that matter) are not infallible. Plenty of guys want to have consequence-free sex with relative strangers and not have to worry about a condom breaking or b.c. pills being left in the hot sun too long or an unscrupulous woman turkey-bastering his sperm from a used condom or a blowjob. I anticipate this being immensely popular if it's made available.

lsaferite 9y ago
You missed a big reason for women not to take hormonal BC. Reduced or absent sex-drive. That's a large issue for a woman in a relationship and probably a large issue for single women as well.
- spacehome 9y ago
  I didn't bring it up because it's not a reason to prefer vasalgel over hormonal BC.
  - lsaferite 9y ago
    > There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons. Your list had nothing to do with preferring male over female BC. It was talking about reasons women could be reluctant to use hormonal BC methods. I was simply adding a very large side-effect to the list of reasons a woman might skip a hormonal BC method.
    - spacehome 9y ago
      Oh! Sorry, I totally misinterpreted your original comment. I thought you meant that women who have a pre-existing condition of low sex drive don't want to take the pill because they have no interest in sex and hence contraception. While true, it didn't make much sense in context. It being a side-effect of the pill makes much more sense.

lsaferite 9y ago

You missed a big reason for women not to take hormonal BC. Reduced or absent sex-drive. That's a large issue for a woman in a relationship and probably a large issue for single women as well.

spacehome 9y ago
I didn't bring it up because it's not a reason to prefer vasalgel over hormonal BC.
- lsaferite 9y ago
  > There are many women who are reluctant to take hormonal birth control pills for a variety of reasons. Your list had nothing to do with preferring male over female BC. It was talking about reasons women could be reluctant to use hormonal BC methods. I was simply adding a very large side-effect to the list of reasons a woman might skip a hormonal BC method.
  - spacehome 9y ago
    Oh! Sorry, I totally misinterpreted your original comment. I thought you meant that women who have a pre-existing condition of low sex drive don't want to take the pill because they have no interest in sex and hence contraception. While true, it didn't make much sense in context. It being a side-effect of the pill makes much more sense.