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Potential Male Birth Control Pill Has Just Been Shown Safe in Humans for the First Time

posted by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the wang-prescribes-beta dept.

martyb writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:59PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @01:59PM (#820635)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:48PM (#820759)

    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.

    Wow! Bitter much?

    Maybe you should improve your taste in women?

  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 29 2019, @05:09PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Friday March 29 2019, @05:09PM (#821896)

    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.