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This Male Birth Control Pill has Just Been Shown Safe in Humans for the First Time:
For years, scientists have been trying to develop a safe and effective version of the pill for men, and a new drug candidate could be the contraceptive we've been looking for.
This week, scientists in the US announced that an experimental oral drug called 11-beta-MNTDC looks to be safe and tolerable, based on results from a phase 1 clinical trial involving 40 men.
"Our results suggest that this pill, which combines two hormonal activities in one, will decrease sperm production while preserving libido," says male reproduction biologist Christina Wang from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed).
[...] 11-beta-MNTDC is a modified form of testosterone with both progestational (in effect, sperm-blocking) and androgenic (hormone-balancing) characteristics.
Before you get your hopes up too much, this was strictly a test for toleration; further studies are required to test efficacy.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:01PM (6 children)
Point I was gonna make : which girl is going to trust a guy that swears he took the pill, when it's his pleasure but her risk ?
Also, after getting snipped, men still output swimmers for almost two months. That's a long time ... trust me.
Also :
> will decrease sperm production while preserving libido
Objective as stated is road to failure :
To be successful, it has to Definitely stop sperm production, while Dramatically increasing libido and erections.
Outside of long-term couples medically prevented from using other options, and maybe men really dedicated to avoid "accidents", I don't see much of a market.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Mykl on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:51AM (5 children)
It's an edge-case, but I personally know two guys who had casual sex with women who lied about being on the pill so they could get pregnant. They then enjoyed the pleasure of 18 years of child support for being an unwitting sperm donor.
Granted, they were stupid to not be using STD protection (e.g. condoms) in the first place, but there is a use-case for the guy who doesn't want to be a baby-daddy.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:36AM (4 children)
Make sure you keep some pure capascin oil to put on top of the cream in your spent condom just in case she retrieves it and shoves it back up there in hopes of nailing you for DNA matching if she can trip off her babymaker.
The wails resulting from the capascin experience will let you know she will try such a thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:02AM
You mean, retrieve it *from garbage can* and put it *in there* ? Whoa, buddy, I admire your imagination! I never ever met a woman *that* desperate and non-germophobic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:59PM (2 children)
The solution here is to change the laws so that men have actual rights when it comes to reproduction. It's not going to happen because women don't want any of the responsibilities of being an adult and there's enough cuck bastards out there willing to sell their fellow men out in order to get in good with women. Women, who are pretty mean to men and basically incapable of behaving like adults.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:48PM
Wow! Bitter much?
Maybe you should improve your taste in women?
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 29 2019, @05:09PM
Or, you know, give men control over their own fertility so that they can play the game on equal footing with pill-liberated women.
If you don't want kids, don't have kids. If you do want kids, then make sure you're engaging in a well-formulated business partnership with a trustworthy woman - traditionally such an partnership was known as "marriage", but that institution has changed somewhat in recent centuries, and there are other options.