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An experimental new type of male contraceptive that blocks sperm flow with a gel has been successful in monkey trials.
Vasalgel acts as a physical barrier once injected into the tubes that sperm would swim down to the penis.
The company behind it says a two-year trial, published in Basic and Clinical Andrology , shows the gel works and is safe - at least in primates.
It hopes to have enough evidence to begin tests in men within a few years.
If those get funding and go well - two big "ifs" - it will seek regulatory approval to make the gel more widely available to men.
It would be the first new type of male contraceptive to hit the market in many decades.
Vasagel is thought to have the same effect as a vasectomy — but another injection should dissolve the gel plug.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38879224
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:18PM
Dunno why you were modded flamebait. Somebody probably got triggered by "SJW." I'm likewise unaffected for a similar reason. Here are some of my predictions:
- Women will go for the social messaging you indicate while simultaneously continuing to discourage each other from taking a temporary pill.
- Feminists will argue for the most absurd reasons that this procedure shouldn't be covered by health insurance while screeching that their pill needs to be covered. Probably something to do with that old, tired "ur all raepists" thing.
- I will continue to be befuddled as to why anybody would date a woman.
- Any failure of this contraceptive will result in 100% liability for the unfortunate guy, probably winding up with him in prison over child support.
- Women will find ways to cause this procedure to fail. They already engage in enough deceptive shit to try to trick guys into being on the hook for child support.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:22PM
I should add since there are so many brainwashed fools out there: anybody who thinks for a damned second that women really want abortion legal is, well, a brainwashed fool. They want abortion to be illegal for the precise reason that they have everything to gain and the guy has everything to lose when one of them gets pregnant.
Don't let the outward lies feminists blather on about mislead. Hell, the vast majority of their arrogant bigotry is rooted in the fact that they carry the child. Just watch. It's only a matter of time until women are no longer needed for reproduction. You would think that's something women would want, eh? Nope! They will do everything to prevent such a thing from coming about.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:58PM
You almost make it sound like all women are the same. You do realize, they are as different as men are? Like you and me. You're some kind of blathering douche, who doesn't much like women. I'm just an asocial asshole who happens to like women most of the time. See how very different we are? If you could see how different women are, you might actually find one you could like. Good luck finding one who could like you though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @09:10PM
You heard it here first folks, occasionally Runaway swings both ways!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @11:02PM
I'm more surprised he admitted to being an asocial asshole, honestly...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:21PM
Don't worry, you're never gonna get laid anyway.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:26PM
Yeah that insult lost its meaning in the 60s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @05:50AM
Yeah that insult lost its meaning in the 60s.
As Cubancigar10 should know more than most, yes, this is true. Now it means going both ways between species! On the one side, humans (both genders), and on the other, well, was it not the great state of Arkansas that gave us the phrase: "Squeal like a pig!" So I would not insinuate anything about Runaway's proclivities, but he did admit to animal husbandry in the past, if not ongoing; and he has hinted as working as a truck driver, and we all know what goes on in the sleeper units of big rigs with small hands. My point is, I think, that for moral reasons, we should not let Runaway1965 get an abortion, because the life up in his wahoo is more important than he is. Yes, sacrifice the Trucker if you must, but save the truckling. Abortionists are making money off of truckers, so I say, we should make trucking illegal!! Not politically correct, and I am sure all you SJWs will mod me down, that only means that what I say is true! Runaway! I want to have your babies!!!!
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:28PM
Not the op ac btw.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:59PM
It will never lose its force, sorry. Some things are so basic to human biology they'll be as powerful as ever until biology itself changes. 10 gets you 1 OP-AC is, and describes himself as, an "incel."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @10:31PM
Offense is taken, not given. Individuals who realize this can get to the point where even the most try-hard repugnants merely come across as pitiful.
That is, evocative of pity.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday February 09 2017, @07:19AM
Yeah... umm... getting laid is the easiest thing in the world right now, so...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 09 2017, @08:02AM
That so? Shame. It's not something people should do lightly. Then again, I'm coming at this from a woman's perspective so *shrug* There's some truth to the old U-Haul joke.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday February 09 2017, @03:34PM
Woman's perspective, what's that like? There is no biological difference between man and women and all the difference is because of patriarchy and it HATES women and it doesn't involve government funding, judiciary, media, academia, healthcare services etc. Those are just compensating for the patriarchy. The real patriarchy is "i won't have sex from a woman's patriarchy" being insult to a man and "i won't have sex from a man's perspective" being insult to a man. Or something like that, isn't it?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:53PM
What the fuck does that even mean? That was incoherent, aggrieved whining.
I've never been one of those morons who thinks biology has no bearing on behavior. That's somewhere between naive and willfully stupid. IIRC statistics show straight and gay women have about the same number of partners; its the gay guys who have waaaaay more than any other group. There's something biological at work here. And you've really never heard the U-Haul joke before?
"Q: What does a lesbian do on the second date?"
"A: She drives up in a moving van with all her stuff!"
Now obviously this is hyperbole, but i *do* find I couldn't tell you when my girlfriend (and my ex girlfriend) and I went from really close friends who do everything together to explicitly being in love, and by that point it almost feels like having been married anyway.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @09:35AM
Not the op ac btw.
Of course it is, cuban, you little pig-fucker you! Just saying. Did you know that there are venereal diseases that can be transmitted between barnyard animals and humans? I hope you are using "protection". Also, illegal in most jurisdictions, like keeping marmots in the city limits. Dude. F'ing Nihilists.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday February 09 2017, @03:26PM
hehe. Now you know that when people use motherfucker and sisterfucker they are not misogynist, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:41PM
You're homosexual as well, right? Right back at you. I need a woman like a fish needs a bicycle. But maybe you need a good man in your life.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @10:54PM
I've got some good men in my life :) Just...not my bed.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @07:06PM
Oh look, a deplorable.
(Score: 4, Funny) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:39PM
I will continue to be befuddled as to why anybody would date a woman.
Because they're squishy? Seriously though - sounds like you may have been rode hard and put away wet.
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