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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:56PM (2 children)
The point of the male pill, and the reason it hasn't happened sooner, is that it gives men some tiny amount of control over whether or not they become fathers. Right now men only get to decide not to have sex. That's it.
Women get to abstain, use the pill, use a condom, have an abortion, put the demon seed up for adoption and none of that requires any consent or buy in from the potential father. And they still wind up becoming single mothers for reasons other than the guy dropping dead.
If men have the ability to make our own decisions about whether or not to be fathers without having to give up sex, it would greatly reduce the hold women have on us.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:55PM (1 child)
Really? Men can't wear a condom?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:56PM
Must be an incel to be so woefully ignorant about how condoms work...