After decades of attempts to develop new birth control medications for men, scientists are more hopeful than ever. With new abortion restrictions, demand is growing, experts say.

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    I mean this is just “sperm suppression”, of course it lowers the risk of pregnancy considerably, but not 100%. I’ll still get my tubes snipped at this point. As a guy you simply don’t have a lot of options if you want to be safe. Condoms and vasectomy, that’s it. And condoms can fail too if you’re unlucky.

    As soon as the girl is pregnant all you can do is pray she doesn’t decide to keep the kid :-/

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      I got a vasectomy and it was crazy easy. Had a meeting with my doc just so he could make sure I knew it was permanent, I asked if I could have something extra for the pain and dude was like “I can give you vallium is that alright?” Showed up day of, took like 30 mins and didn’t feel a thing. Only thing was the smell of burning flesh was a little much but that was literally it.

      My partner wants some form of permanent BC herself but literally no doctor will allow it.

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        With so many fucking people on the planet, you would think doctors would be stoked to sterilize as many people as they can.

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    We’re going to trust men with an invisible daily birth control? I don’t think so.

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      As with any invisible or otherwise difficult to monitor birth control method, this is really only for people in dedicated relationships.

      It goes both ways. A man shouldn’t trust a women he just met to be on birth control. A women should have the same reservations.

      This is for people who can trust a long term partner, and who wouldn’t be destroyed by the failure of the product. And that’s still a huge market.

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          Why not delete the comment and respond to the right person? Not that you should at this point, but it would have taken less time than explaining it in an edit so I’m curious

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      I’ve several ex girlfriends who fuck up taking their daily birth control and needed plan b… IDK why men would be worse tho, please explain?

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        They knew they missed it, chose to have sex anyway, and took steps to prevent pregnancy. You probably saw that plan b is not really fun and not something you want to do often. That’s different than someone not telling you they’re inconsistent with the med or telling you afterwards.

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          My ex gfs also did the same, also told me to cum inside. Fucking horny 19 year olds girls were crazy. Well even when we got older they still be thirsty for that jizz

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      Such a weird argument. Look beyond that one use case.

      In my case, I, a male, don’t want kids. I would get this. I’d still use condoms, because STDs. But in the event that they don’t work (because it can happen), at least I know that I won’t get anyone accidentally pregnant. It’s great!

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        it’s not an argument. it’s a belief

        women = good, men = bad.

        it’s a cultural bias called ‘women are wonderful’ effect. we are culturally biased to think men are bad and women are good.

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          It’s a protective response. People don’t generally do what is good for you unless it’s also good for them, especially at a time when ‘emotions’ are running hot.

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            Sooo you would say that “man wants to get woman pregnant and lies about it” is somehow more likely than “woman wants to get pregnant and lies about it”?

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              Man wants to get laid and no condom is pretty common. Woman wants to get secretly pregnant happens.

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                No, both happen equally often. It’s not “men want to make everyone pregnant and women are saints”.

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                  Men want to have sex at the same frequency that women want to get pregnant? I’m pretty sure that’s not accurate.

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        You can walk away. What if this were a medication that prevented HIV? Would you trust someone else without protecting yourself?

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            And it’s awesome how well prep works! If you were not on it and met someone who told you they were, would you trust them and risk it?

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        No. Late at night, in bed, long day, curious but not overly committed to finding out, and I don’t want the bright white of Firefox loading in boost on my phone.

        Accept that people are lazy, and stop moralizing when they lazily ask for specifics about new science. Not everyone is having your day or has your commitment.

        It’s a community, so I didn’t have to this time… And I’m still not interested enough to verify your answers.

        Thank you.