Originally published at: New contraceptive for people with penises stops sperm swimming | Boing Boing
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Thats cool. So you will make this easy to buy and cheaply available, right? Right?
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Male oral/injected contraceptives have been way too long overlooked/underfunded. If for naught else, because the gross imbalance for dealing with birth control has forever and ever been bloody obvious.
(fair disclosure: some of my closest associates have been working on means of interrupting spermatogenesis for quite sometime; only to have their funding side-tracked)
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They did manage to create hormonal birth control pills for men years ago; but it was a solution that negated the need for itself.
The problem with them was that the hormones that needed to be manipulated to make the sperm not be produced also negated the mens sex drive; so it was kind of like putting really really really good brakes on a race car but not putting any fuel in the tank - no risk of an accident if nothing is moving.
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Sperm, “I knew I shouldn’t have eaten that heavy lunch!”
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I’ll be interested to see the no-sex do-what-we-tell-you fundamentalists explain how this one is actually abortion.
Maybe they’ll get some help from the wackier men’s rights activists, who will see any attempt to put the brakes on your little swimmers as an assault on masculinity.
(and no, I am not joking, I fully expect to see both of these arguments given time)
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heh. as a grad student i may well have been a volunteer for testing that very program. never knew whether i was in the control group or not. …never having much of a libido anyways [wink].
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Ummm sorry to be that person but shouldn’t the headline be ‘people with testes’? That’s where sperm live, don’t they?
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Answers about the fundamentalists
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I can’t help but picture the teeny-weeny concrete overshoes…
Sleeping with the fishies, indeed.
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It’s only a mouse study.
Who knows, by the time it’s a viable product for sale, we could have single payer healthcare that just covers it.
You have to start somewhere, but media articles seem to always overstate early studies as if they’re right around the corner. We could have fusion first, or not, that one is probably even further away. It’s difficult to tell from the reporting on both.
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Better than tasing each and every one.
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Ah, I didn’t RTFA, just the blog post.
Still, if/when something like that exists, it should be next to the condoms. Take it before going out on the town/date/whatever. And as others pointed out, it shouldn’t be a substitute for condoms when their use is prudent.
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Viagra+
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Dude… humans are (allegedly) more highly evolved mammals, not puppies or kittens. Your chosen phrasing is… telling.
And to recap the rest of the pushback that you’ve already gotten, men need to take responsibility for their own sexual reproductive capability.
Period.
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It’s for dudes, so it’ll obvs be covered by all insurance plans.
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Naah, it would be way easier to say that it has the same effects as Mercury in retrograde, or blocks people’s natural pheromones, or something like that, rather than address that it actually does what people say it’s supposed to do.
