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Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Birth control, unlike marijuana, has no recreational use.

As an engineer, I would argue that birth control's primary use is recreational.

As a (male) recreational drug user, I have never taken birth control pills for any purpose, recreational or otherwise.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill.

Birth control should be over the counter, full-stop.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

#43

This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill. Birth control should be…

"The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous."

What country is this? In Aus, this is a medical/GP issue and birth control pharmaceuticals are available at the chemist via a script.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill. Birth control should be…

"The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous." What country is this? In Aus, this is a medical/GP issue and birth control pharmaceuticals are available at the chemist via a script.

Planned Parenthood is often used by women who are not regularly visiting a GP.

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There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy. Cruising over to reddit's /r/birthcontrol now, this submission was from 16 hours ago: > So because I was losing hair after…

  So I've taken out my sperm production using the old heat methods. It works, I've checked.
Thanks for sharing your experiments, would love to know what heat method/protocol you used, and how you checked.

Thermal birth control looks like a good DIY and low-cost birth control method. DIY spermcount could help ease of adoption and autonomy.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy. Cruising over to reddit's /r/birthcontrol now, this submission was from 16 hours ago: > So because I was losing hair after…

>So I've taken out my sperm production using the old heat methods. It works, I've checked. What does this mean? That you raise your .. body .. temperature to the point that potentially some sperm die? In a consultation for a vasectomy, the urologist strongly wanted that alternative forms of birth control be used for several months as sperm already in the system - unless you're naturally not producing sperm, I doubt t…

Local heating is sufficient, but there is at least 3 month latency.

Dr Roger Mieusset and volunteers tested a modified underwear with success and reversibility after 4 year use.

Photos of the modified underwear + usage (NSFW/medical) can be found here : http://www.contraceptionmasculine.fr/415771934

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would it help if the doctoring was split off from the online pharmacy? So both still telehealth / online, just separate.

Absolutely. I'm quite happy with online pharmacies and telemedicine as separate concepts; it's the conflict of interest inherent in "we'll refer you to a doctor who will give you a prescription so that we can sell you these pills" which concerns me.

This is very different from the concern you expressed in your toplevel comment. A doctor having a profit motive to write prescriptions could very well conflict with their ethical obligation to recommend alternatives where medically appropriate.

On the other hand, it's my impression that most of the medicines people obtain this way - specifically contraceptives and erectile dysfunction treatments - are straightforward enough that an automated decision tree could probably do a reasonable job screening most patients.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

#48

This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill. Birth control should be…

I agree that birth control should be available over the counter, but any PP I have ever been in has been clean, friendly, efficient, and dedicated to making sure people have access to whatever reproductive health services they need. source: I'm a man, and I go to PP for STD tests, and other men's reproductive and sexual health issues.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

#49

This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill. Birth control should be…

> get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill.

? An annual gyno exam is a general best practice, whether birth control is involved or not.

Re: Birth Control via App Finds Footing Under Political Radar

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This is really good news for women (and men in long term relationships with women). The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous. Have you ever been in a planned parenthood? It's basically the DMV (with an equal level of cleanliness). Women have to make at least yearly visits to this place to get absurd and intrusive medical evaluations just to get the pill. Birth control should be…

"The amount of hoops you have to jump through to get birth control is ridiculous." What country is this? In Aus, this is a medical/GP issue and birth control pharmaceuticals are available at the chemist via a script.

In USA, many people do not have access to a GP.
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