New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects

Post by recuter » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 12:06 PM UTC

micromacrofoot wrote: post #32

slowmotiony wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is Trestolone which is studied and shown to be very effective (patients had zero sperm in their ejaculate after several months of administering the compound), but there are hormonal side effects similar to testosterone, which kind of explains why it's pretty much only used in the bodybuilding community. The pill in the article is a non-hormonal one, which is interesting

are the side effects really that much worse than what women have to deal with with their birth control? I’ve heard a lot of hormonal horror stories from women on the pill

Post by newaccount74 » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 12:09 PM UTC

mensetmanusman wrote: post #23

goda90 wrote: post #5

What happens to YCT529 when it's used up or if more than is used up in the body is taken? Is excess urinated out? What impact does that have on the environment?

If the body broke it down it wouldn’t be effective, so it would pass through and be expelled like most everything else the body is confused what to do with. Anything that affects mammalian fertility can have downstream effects unless the molecule is particularly unstable. Instability however is contrary to a birth control business model, as it introduces uncertainty (see: biodegradable conditions).

Post by igetspam » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 12:10 PM UTC

axiomsEnd wrote: post #12

timmg wrote: post #4

In Western countries and in Asia, fertility rates are pretty (edit: low) these days. I fear they would collapse with the introduction of a male fertility pill. In some sense, maybe that's not bad. The world is probably overpopulated. But if fertility drops too fast it creates real demographics problems in that few young people need to support many old people.

Oral contraceptives are not as comfortable and easy to use as condoms, which are available everywhere. Taking drugs just to avoid pregnacy would be an alternative probably for people in relationships (instead of sometimes problematic womens contraceptives) and for people doing a lot of casual sex (who probably already use condoms/woman are on hormonal contraception).

Post by zeckalpha » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 12:13 PM UTC

ada1981 wrote: post #38

It’s kinda wild that women are basically expected to take on all the side effect risk of birth control and no one even questions it unless side effects are actually death (Remember Yaz?). I’m also curious about how blocking vitamin A doesn’t have side effects - don’t I need vitamin A?

Post by hasbot » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 12:17 PM UTC

timmg wrote: post #4

In Western countries and in Asia, fertility rates are pretty (edit: low) these days. I fear they would collapse with the introduction of a male fertility pill. In some sense, maybe that's not bad. The world is probably overpopulated. But if fertility drops too fast it creates real demographics problems in that few young people need to support many old people.