A Birth Control Pill for Men? Bring It On!
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Male contraception? Yes!
British researchers at Oxford University are on the verge of creating a male birth-control pill, and I say, Bravo!
From Science Progress:
The dearth of male contraceptives, especially long-acting, reversible contraceptives, referred to as LARCs, contributes to an unjust arrangement in which women bear the majority of the social, economic, and health-related burdens associated with contraception. Today, there are eleven female contraceptive methods but only two male methods: condoms and vasectomy.[1] Women alone contracept 67.3 percent of the time. If we include shared methods as well as male condom use, which women often negotiate, then women are involved in almost 91 percent of all contraceptive use. Men, in contrast, only participate in contraceptive use one third of the time.[2]
When authorities first started prosecuting deadbeat dads for child-support payments some two decades ago, it was hoped this would act as a male contraceptive: one night of fun versus 18 years of payments. Who wouldn't weigh the consequences more seriously? Unhappily, however, it hasn't dulled Americans' appetite for out-of-wedlock births, which have soared since the 1980s.
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Affordable Birth Control
By the way, the only place I found on online for affordable birth control is: http://www.MyCycleDirect.com. The MyCycle company is the #1 online Birth Control Pharmacy. They sometimes give out free birth control samples. Good luck
Trust the men ? Doesn't matter.
stitchathome, it doesn't matter whether you can trust a man to take a pill or not.
It's not for women. It's for the MEN.
We already have multiple easily reversed methods of birth control, and I can't see why men having the same ease of parenthood prevention should ever be an complaint of a woman.
If I don't trust a guy to take his pill, a) why am I having sex with him ????
b) I can take my own pill- or get an IUD, or use my diaphragm, etc etc etc..
And if we're both using contraception, then the odds of an unexpected pregnancy go way down.
That's bad how ??
Unless of course the goal is line up an 18 year paycheck...
This is great news
Well, it is about time. While there are many trustworthy women out there, there are just as many gold diggers and irresponsible women, and a good amount of these individuals would like nothing more than to get their hands on 18 years of child support from a guy. With a male birth control pill, many of these money grubbers will finally not have all the power in their hands. For decades now, women have had many forms of birth control, while men have had condoms or a vasectomy. Hopefully soon, this will be a thing of the past.
However, don't hold your breath. They have been talking about a male birth control for years, always saying that they are "almost there in the creation & production of a male birth control". I heard this same song & dance 5 years ago. Still, nothing. So, I don't know just how close these people actually are. My guess is that we will all be reading the same kind of article in another 5 years. And they will again say, "We are very close now to creating a male birth control".
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