Male birth control pills. Would you take them?

[NachoConQueso]

So instead of the chick taking the pill it's you and it makes your body turn off sperm production. Is it an option for you or do you stick with putting a rubber banded shopping bag around your wiener? I'm staying with the baggie since I don't like putting unnecessary stuff in my body.

 

[Maria_Vanessa]

Apparently, scientists and researchers all over the world have been working on this for the past 30 years. For some men who like to slut around with any woman who is willing, this could be a godsend to them. I posted the article from CNN, but Discovery Health also has a good article as well has how a diagram on how the pill could work.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/sexual-health/contraception/male-bc-pill1.htm

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-05-07/...ale-birth-control-pill-progestin?_s=PM:HEALTH

When the pill came out in 1960, women got to take charge of their own bodies in a new way: They didn't have to rely on men to prevent pregnancy.

Fifty years later, women have all kinds of pills and devices to fit their birth control needs. But while they have the freedom to choose what method works best for them, they are still the ones altering their own bodies for the sake of safer sex.

They are the ones taking daily medications or wearing small hormone-releasing gadgets that doctors demonstrate with scary-looking diagrams.

Where's the prescription for men?

It turns out that scientists around the world are working on more options for men and women to assist with preventing pregnancy; some promising methods are in clinical trials and could fill in some of the gaps in the current contraceptive marketplace.

For the men

"The joke in the field is: The male pill's been five to 10 years away for the last 30 years," said Dr. John Amory, researcher at the University of Washington.

Researchers have been promising a male hormonal contraceptive option for a long time, but there are good reasons why it's so hard to get that technology right. While women make one egg a month, men produce about 1,000 sperm every second, Amory said.

"It proves more difficult to shut down that level of production," he said.

The female pill uses hormones to prevent ovulation, turning off egg production as if she has already ovulated that month. But men don't have periods where they naturally turn off sperm production, so it's harder to get them into that state, he said.

The male hormonal methods in progress uses a combination of testosterone and progestin, which turn off signals from the brain to the testes. Approximately 3,000 men have been enrolled across more than 30 studies on the topic over the last 30 years.

About two-thirds of men who have had hormone injections suppress sperm production totally, and in 90 percent overall, it's very low. For the remaining 10 percent, however, it does not adequately protect against possible pregnancy.

But a large study on more than 1,000 men in China, published in 2009 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, showed more than 95 percent efficacy for hormonal injections in men. Men received the injections and relied on them as the sole method of contraception; researchers looked at whether the couples got pregnant.

It's unclear why hormonal contraceptives appear to work better in men in China than in the United States, he said.

"It's something to do presumably with the genetics of the Chinese," Amory said. The regulatory agencies have not approved this method in China, he said.

Male contraceptive gels and injections are farther along than the pill in clinical trials because they're easier to dose, Amory said.

The gel, in phase 2 trials looking at efficacy, absorbs across the skin of the arm, chest or upper back, akin to putting on sunscreen, he said. Phase 3 would be large-scale trials.

"It could be very effective in preventing pregnancy, but if there isn't a clear market for it, companies understandably are a little reluctant to invest heavily in it," said Andrea Tone, professor of history at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Tone has written extensively about the history of contraceptives.

One concern is some women don't trust men to use hormonal contraceptives. They say they would have to watch their partners take the pill in order to trust them, Tone said. "The male pill sets up possibility for conflict that the female pill doesn't," she said.

Still, a study in 2000 led by Anna Glasier in the journal Human Reproduction found that most women would trust their male partners to take a pill. Researchers surveyed nearly 1,900 women in Hong Kong, China, Scotland and South Africa, and they found that only 2 percent -- or 36 women -- would not trust partners to use the male pill.

"This survey should dispel the myth that women would not trust their partners to use a 'male pill' reliably and illustrates the potential market for the method," the authors wrote.

Researchers are also working on an at-home sperm count test, similar to a pregnancy test, so that men (and their female partners) would be able to see that the hormonal contraception is working, Amory said.

There has also been talk of a spray-on condom, which began testing in 2007. It works by spraying liquid latex over the penis, ensuring a perfect fit. The challenge, however, is getting the latex to dry fast enough. Read more from Time.com

For the women

Today, women can get a vaginal ring, called the NuvaRing, that the pelvic floor muscles hold in place for three weeks. The hormones estrogen and progestin prevent the ovaries from producing mature eggs.

Research from the Population Council, a nonprofit organization, is looking at a slightly bigger ring that could be left in place for a year.

This would be especially useful in the developing world, where access to birth control is an issue, said Dr. Melissa Gilliam, chief of the section of family planning at the University of Chicago Medical Center, who is working on this research.

The kind of progestin used in this yearlong ring is new and is not orally active, she said. Breastfeeding mothers would not have to worry about the hormones passing into breast milk.

Phase 3 clinical trials have just been completed, meaning the product could become widely available in the next few years, she said.

 

[h^2 O]

Id take the pill. But lie about it and don't take it.

 

[NOKUY]

Id take the pill. But lie about it and don't take it.

....i hope your first in line homeboy

 

[Classy@Home]

I got my scrotum mutilated yrs ago just so I wouldn't have to take a simple pill...

Takes a real man to let another man cut open his sac, and cut, tie and burn his vas defrens.

 

[Good_KarmA]

Never Ever.

At least girls get big tits after they start taking the pill. Unless I get another 2 inches added to my shaft then no way.

 

[resinryder]

Um, I don't think swallowing can get em pregnant.

 

[Littleleaf]

Hell NO! That's what belly buttons are for.......

 

[h^2 O]

Classy that's some ruthless shit, guess you manned up. Fuck no way not me.
Yuke!!!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I grew up baptist. I dated a Catholic girl and learned all about rhythm. I remember the chick telling me they learned about it in... you guessed it, Catholic school.

Imagine southern baptists teaching their teenagers the virtues of rhythm, lol.

 

[Babbabud]

hahahah

hahahah

I grew up baptist. I dated a Catholic girl and learned all about rhythm. I remember the chick telling me they learned about it in... you guessed it, Catholic school.

Imagine southern baptists teaching their teenagers the virtues of rhythm, lol.

You know what they call people that use the rhythm method ?
Mom and Dad

 

[RobMarley420]

Fuck birthcontrol and fuck condoms. I use the pull-out method.

My girlfriend was on birth control for a year or so and it started turning her into a psycho-bitch and killing her sex drive. She stopped taking the pill and everything returned to normal.

After seeing how birth control affected her I would never take male birth control pills.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

You know what they call people that use the rhythm method ?
Mom and Dad

LOL. Yeah, it's far from scientific.

 

[OvergrowingKiwi]

Only if they make your dick bigger and taste like grape.

 

[Classy@Home]

Only if they make your dick bigger and taste like grape.

What does it taste like to you now???

 

[Rysam]

I wouldnt take a pill either.

After the second kid I got the chop. NoMo swimmers for me!!

 

[COOKIE MONSTER]

I got my scrotum mutilated yrs ago just so I wouldn't have to take a simple pill...

Takes a real man to let another man cut open his sac, and cut, tie and burn his vas defrens.

Makes more sense than stuffing your body full of pharma,s, getting my done in a couple of months and cant wait

 

[U4ic]

I got my scrotum mutilated yrs ago just so I wouldn't have to take a simple pill...

Takes a real man to let another man cut open his sac, and cut, tie and burn his vas defrens.

Yup been there done that... Nice not to have to worry about anything..

 

[In~Plain~Site]

I wouldn't take them, but I'd exploi...um...explore the fiscal angle

I could bump these chumpies at the bus stop that lets off near the welfare office...300%...not bad for a father of four who's been 'fixed' since women had hair on their pussies

Don't roll your eyes at me, somebody would be doing it

 

[pearlemae]

I'm with Classy, I got cut in 82 while in the Army. Didn't need anymore children ever. Now I have 11 grandkids go figure.