Male Birth Control Hormones
Drug companies won't make a male birth control pill because men won't take it, according to the original engineer of the female birth control pill. Carl Djerassi says we could make a male pill today based on the same hormonal logic that guided development of the female pill. But he says no company is interested because men won't take such a pill, because there might be a slight risk of impotence, and men care more about preserving their virility even in old age than about sparing their partner an unintended pregnancy.
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The National Institutes of Health is funding development of a male contraceptive. The researcher who's getting the grant has achieved a 92 percent success rate and is aiming for 100. His method is a compound that blocks the sperm's chemical ability to penetrate the egg.
Men may soon have the options of a daily pill to be taken orally, a patch or gel to be applied to the skin, an injection given every three months or an implant placed under the skin every 12 months, according to Seattle researchers.
"I would rather rely on a solution that doesn't involve medicating myself and the problems women have had with hormone therapy doens't make me anxious to want to sign on to taking hormone-type therapy"
It is time for men to have some control. I think it would empower men and deter some women out there from their nefarious plans, says Brown. Some women are out there to use men to get pregnant. This could deter women from doing this.
But will men take it? Some say yes, some say only if their partners make them, and other say they would never even consider it.
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would you guys take it?
Drug companies won't make a male birth control pill because men won't take it, according to the original engineer of the female birth control pill. Carl Djerassi says we could make a male pill today based on the same hormonal logic that guided development of the female pill. But he says no company is interested because men won't take such a pill, because there might be a slight risk of impotence, and men care more about preserving their virility even in old age than about sparing their partner an unintended pregnancy.
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The National Institutes of Health is funding development of a male contraceptive. The researcher who's getting the grant has achieved a 92 percent success rate and is aiming for 100. His method is a compound that blocks the sperm's chemical ability to penetrate the egg.
Men may soon have the options of a daily pill to be taken orally, a patch or gel to be applied to the skin, an injection given every three months or an implant placed under the skin every 12 months, according to Seattle researchers.
"I would rather rely on a solution that doesn't involve medicating myself and the problems women have had with hormone therapy doens't make me anxious to want to sign on to taking hormone-type therapy"
It is time for men to have some control. I think it would empower men and deter some women out there from their nefarious plans, says Brown. Some women are out there to use men to get pregnant. This could deter women from doing this.
But will men take it? Some say yes, some say only if their partners make them, and other say they would never even consider it.
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would you guys take it?
