Male birth control pill in sight

[Hum]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Women may say, "It's about time." Guys may have the same reaction.

After many overly optimistic predictions, a male version of the Pill may truly be in sight. And a team at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, a nationally recognized center of research into male contraceptives, is working to be among the first to put a new generation of products on the market.

Joseph Tash, a reproductive biologist at the Kansas school, has spent a decade tinkering with a chemical compound called H2-gamendazole that keeps sperm from developing in the testes. Men taking a gamendazole pill would essentially be shooting blanks.

The expectation is that men on this pill would experience no change in their libido and, if they stopped taking it, would regain full fertility within a few weeks.

Tash's work is part of a promising array of new birth control methods for men that are under development in laboratories or already being tested on volunteers.

These contraceptives are arriving more than 50 years after the female birth control pill revolutionized relations between the sexes and gave women greater control over their lives.

Outdated attitudes that birth control was women's work, along with the technical challenges -- women release just one egg per month, but men produce 1,000 sperm per second -- have slowed development of new male contraceptives. But recent investments in research appear to be paying off.

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[Got3n]

take this with my morning vitamins, I dont see the big deal, as long as everything else works as it should.

[Squirrelington]

'its like a snake without venom, with out potency, you got your self a.... a belt'

[Rohdekill]

If it truly is 100% effective... women will need to come up with a new plan for keeping their men instead of claiming they are, or getting, pregnant.

[Hum]

poor little spermies :(

[+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹]

actually that is awesome

you dont have to put your trust into a woman to take her pills

i have seen a lot of problems that come from that

[shakey]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *dances naked in the streets*

[Charisma Veteran]

actually that is awesome

you dont have to put your trust into a woman to take her pills

i have seen a lot of problems that come from that

People aren't perfect--I'm absolutely terrified of getting pregnant and never want to, and was totally rigid about taking the pills, but still forgot sometimes when I was travelling, or certain things came up when I was super busy or got home late and exhausted. I never relied on that alone anyway, always had a backup method like a condom or whatever, but still. You're acting like people intentionally and maliciously stop taking them, and while that happens sometimes, it is *not* always the case. Not to mention they aren't 100% reliable anyway, nothing is. I would think the safest thing would be for both partners to be on a pill, that way you have a doubly good chance *and* some built in backup in case one person forgets occasionally.

[Astra.Xtreme]

I'd be a bit worried about the power this pill has, to be able to kill millions of spermies on a regular basis.

I think this would more be a potential pill for one or two generations from now. Needs some time to become tested and true.

[Hum]

^ The bad thing is, they could slip just about anything in these pills, with the users being unaware.