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Contraceptive pill for males is 99% effective in preventing pregnancy
- faebi 5y agoSide topic: Does anyone know what happened to Vasalgel?
- survirtual 5y agoIt is still in development: https://www.revolutioncontraceptives.com/vasalgel/#1519942720340-a77dc31e-674f https://www.revolutioncontraceptives.com/vasalgel/#151994272... Anyone waiting for Vasalgel may as well fly to India and get a RISUG injection.
- thedailymail 5y agoObligatory qualification: "In mice!"
- ARandomerDude 5y agoHere guys, take this pill to make you chemically sterile. We think it's safe and temporary. No thanks, give me the kids.
- olliej 5y agoThere are plenty of kids in the foster system that would love to be adopted
- pyuser583 5y agoThere are surprisingly few children in foster care eligible for adoption. I’ve looked into this. Foster care is temporary care, and many children “in the system” are staying with family.
- olliej 5y agoI wouldn't call >100,000 kids surprisingly few, temporary foster care is indeed a much larger body at over 400k, so around a quarter are looking for homes.
- xxpor 5y agoWhy? Women have been doing it for 60 years.
- A_non_e-moose 5y agoThe article mentions traditional hormonal contraceptives don't work for men. This is a new approach, blocking a targeted receptor. I'm not aware of any such contraceptive for women. The apprehension in that case is understandable as it is not backed by the same experience as hormonal methods
- coolso 5y agoBirth control doesn’t destroy all of a woman’s eggs.
- xxpor 5y agoBut sperm is constantly produced. Eggs aren't.
- WheelsAtLarge 5y agoThere are plenty of guys that don't want to have kids and hate using condoms. This could be an option.
- coolso 5y agoI think I’ll probably let this one get tested in humans first… then be on the market for around 5 years minimum, before I even remotely consider it.
- rdtwo 5y agoIn men?
- olliej 5y agoThere seems to much more concern about side effects than is exhibited for women’s birth control. The unwillingness to even try to sell a male birth control because if fears about a side effect profile that matches what women can deal with is a good indicator of just how fragile the drug manufacturers think men are.
- car_analogy 5y ago> a side effect profile that matches what women can deal with Do we in fact know that the side effects (of which method?) are equivalent to female birth-control (again - which?), or are you speculating? And is avoiding unknown side-effects a sign of fragility, or caution?
- chownie 5y agoThis comes up every time male contraceptives come up, it's emotionally compelling but just isn't true. The safety equation for men and women differs vastly. The pill is acceptable at its current safety level because the alternative is pregnancy which can be lethal. Plus the various uses in cycle control, important not just for fertility but also hormone management. For men there is no downside to not taking the contraceptive, so it must boast a much higher safety profile to be considered. As it stands, the current attempts were either much too dangerous (higher rate of adverse responses than the pill) or too permanent, nothing to do with the fragility of men - perceived or otherwise.
- oneoff786 5y agoThat’s some bullshit reasoning. The risk of pregnancy to the female partner is a clear and obvious externality with the same level of risk. The pill can wreck women’s hormonal cycles. It’s hardly a given that it will “control” them.
- A_non_e-moose 5y ago> The pill can wreck women’s hormonal cycles. It’s hardly a given that it will “control” them. One could also say the pill can control women's hormonal cycles. It's hardly a given that it will "wreck" them. Thankfully the pill is one of the many female contraceptive choices.
- oneoff786 5y agoI found this article to be superior. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/male-birth-control-contraception-oral-contraceptive/132361/ https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/male-birth-control-cont... Notably this team is not using a hormonal approach, but is targeting a protein to induce temporary sterility. This seems pretty good at first glance. A hormonal approach for men would probably go very poorly.
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoIt’s kinda funny to imagine that civilization collapses because we invented hormonal male birth control and didn’t anticipate that this would lead to… war. Male hormones have a habit of (re-)shaping the world, for better or for worse.
- oneoff786 5y agoA male hormonal birth control would likely inhibit testosterone. Would probably reduce crime and war.
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoYea, I certainly agree. But what if this leads to a cohort of aggressive males that do not accept this new innovation. They'll breed more and proliferate, while the BC males do the opposite. A war of alphas and betas is finally upon us. The aggressors are coming now, just over their horizon. I can't quite make it out yet, but their standard is coming into view. Dark red border surrounding a pale yellow background, and something ... green? in the foreground. "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." "In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy." "All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
- yuppie_scum 5y agoThe most effective form of birth control is to talk to a woman about crypto
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- yuppie_scum 5y agoThis comment won’t get you laid