Birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year

Post by throwaway304925 » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 7:50 AM UTC

subsaharancoder wrote: post #100

sacrosancty wrote: post #77

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That financial liability is 18 years of paying some double-digit percentage of your income to somebody that could be a almost a stranger for nothing in return. All those hours of work wasted is huge, so is the emotional toll of being cheated in such a large scale. Abortion as soon as you discover you're pregnant is just a pill and quite easy.

> Abortion as soon as you discover you're pregnant is just a pill and quite easy. You mean the intentional killing of a human being is "easy", I read this and I know society is doomed.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

emptysongglass wrote: post #26

MisterSandman wrote: post #2

As a gay man, it's always a lot of fun to watch discussions on birth control for men. I personally have my money on that if/when they do launch for the public, they will be too expensive/difficult to get for basically forever, and women will continue to have to bear the cost of preventing pregnancies. "Men using birth control" would become the "hippie" thing to do that you will only see people in LA/NY do. I am very…

Straight man here. I have a solution to all this and it's the same solution many (though my understanding not all) gay men practice: anal sex. It's all my wife and I do together. No pill needed! (Practice safe sex.)

Post by Femtio » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:16 AM UTC

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I have not found anything with your link which disproof my statement.

I don't think you really read any of those articles or did any deep research to learn the history of male birth control development, but the information is out there if you look harder than Wikipedia. If you want to mischaracterize me you're free to do so, even though I think we're more in agreement than it appears. My point still stands that it's not the science holding us back as much as social attitudes and pharma…

Post by sascha_sl » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 8:27 AM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #107

bufbupa wrote: post #12

The problem with male birth control pills is that it's the women who bear the bulk of the risk/responsibility when it comes to pregnancy. If a woman says "trust me, i'm on the pill" and lies -- they're the ones that get pregnant and likely get stuck raising the kid. Sure the father might be on the hook financially, but if the woman lied about their birth control and went forward with the pregnancy anyway it's not abs…

> If a woman says "trust me, i'm on the pill" and lies -- they're the ones that get pregnant and likely get stuck raising the kid. Sure the father might be on the hook financially, but if the woman lied about their birth control and went forward with the pregnancy anyway it's not absurd to imagine the father bailing on the situation. And yet there are whole discussion boards dedicated to the subject how to best catch…

Post by DrinkDrinkDrink » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 9:12 AM UTC

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It's not common, but there are cases like this: Here a women took a use condom form the trash to get pregnate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2003_07_thu_01.shtml Women Forged a signature of her ex-husband at an IVF clinic that had his sperm, and he still had to pay child support. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8544783/Woman-had-tw... There are numerous other cases like this, not common but it does…

Two anecdotes pales in comparison to the frequency of deadbeats: less than half of custodial parents* receive the full amount, and almost a third never receive a payment. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/cb18-tps... But ultimately, the child is the most vulnerable party in question. Yes, our legal system is geared to protect them first . It's not the best outcome for either parent. But the kid come…