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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 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.