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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: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:01PM (5 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:01PM (#655598) Journal

    I love how the women who wouldn't even vote until the 20's and have made up the vast minority of the legislature since then somehow managed to cram all these laws through.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:03PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:03PM (#655601) Journal

    oops..Couldn't....

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:22PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:22PM (#655605) Journal

    Okay, I'll admit it, it's all because of the Eval Bagyna Deth Lazarz of Mind-Controlly DOOOOOOM~! We're all taught to do this by a coven of lesbian bisexual feminist transgender agender bigender womyn-born-womyn Witches wielding battle axes at what's supposed to be yoga classes. They kind of are, since we need to actually do a handstand, bend our lower bodies forward *over* our heads, and spread our legs in order to unleash the beam.

    And now that you know our secret, I'll have to kill you. But only with enveloping, encircling weapons, because bullets, projectiles, and blades are phallic symbols.

    :V

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:03PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:03PM (#655655)

      And here I was thinking the conspiracy was being organized under the name "Oprah's Book Club". Or at least, as the communications system, by spreading messages in what appeared to be just a normal work of fiction, but if you put the secret decoder plate over the page it spells out NOBODY BANG FRED JONES.

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    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:24PM

      Okay, I'll admit it, it's all because of the Eval Bagyna Deth Lazarz of Mind-Controlly DOOOOOOM~! We're all taught to do this by a coven of lesbian bisexual feminist transgender agender bigender womyn-born-womyn Witches wielding battle axes at what's supposed to be yoga classes. They kind of are, since we need to actually do a handstand, bend our lower bodies forward *over* our heads, and spread our legs in order to unleash the beam.

      And now that you know our secret, I'll have to kill you. But only with enveloping, encircling weapons, because bullets, projectiles, and blades are phallic symbols.

      :V

      Stop spreading conspiracy theories, Azuma. We all know the truth. All this oppression by women came about because no man could resist the raw sexual power of Bella Abzug!

      I suppose this topic is just another reminder to you how grateful you should be about being a lesbian, huh? It sure makes me glad to be a hetero male!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:24AM (#656012)

    You never met a man who does as his wife tells him to?

    It's the way women always have been wielding power without taking responsibility.