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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the hairy-knuckles dept.

https://gizmodo.com/a-once-a-day-male-birth-control-pill-shows-promise-in-h-1823890390

One of the latest experimental candidates for a male birth control drug is a compound that would be taken much like the daily birth control pill available for women. A pilot study presented Sunday at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting suggests that the compound—called dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU)—can be safe and effective in human test subjects.

[...] DMAU is meant to act on the same receptors as testosterone and progestin. But it seems to be more easily absorbed by the body and longer-lasting. That theoretically means a single dose a day (when taken with food) should cause sterility without leading to other serious consequences, the authors say.

[...] The few side effects Page's team observed were weight gain and lowered levels of HDL cholesterol (the "good" kind). But they feel a tweaked dose could alleviate these symptoms. Importantly, the pill didn't seem to cause any other lasting symptoms of low testosterone. Eight men in the treatment group did report lower libido, but the effect faded away after treatment had ended.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:57PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:57PM (#655405)

    It will be banned with various justifications ranging from "it cheats women" to "real man don't need something like that" and "man up".
    I ain't even mad.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:24PM (#655459)

    The moon matrix is already working on the subliminal programming.

    You'll noticed that next to this article appear sexually unappealing images like a man measuring his beer gut.

    What a beer gut has to do with a man's right to "my body, my choice" is beyond me.

    But that's where feminism wants to go with this. A man being able to control his reproductive capability is a direct threat to their model of letting women live the lifestyle of a Mother while being funded entirely off welfare. So they bring the subliminal, hypnotic programming.

    Why do you think it was so important to feminists to bring all kinds of homophobia into #antigamergate? A homosexual man is just as much a threat to their notion that having a womb makes them "superior beings" that just deserve a free ride.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:05PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:05PM (#655491)

      Dumb much? You sound like a unhappy fat guy with homoerotic thoughts.

      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:46PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:46PM (#655587) Journal

        That is most likely Kurenai, who is our resident woman-hating MtF (I don't know how that works either). Her style is pretty unmistakable...

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...