Hey folks, male birth control or what!?

viva · 12-04-12 03:39:43

Seriously, I have had some version of this article open on my browser for about a month now. Once in awhile I open it and read. Then I wonder. Then I go back to whatever I was doing. Can it be really real? I guess we'll see how birth control roles and responsibilities start changing in 2015. I can't deal with the Pill so my partner and I use condoms. I don't have anything against them and I enjoy incorporating safe sex into our play but we're functionally monogamous (for the most part) and part of me misses... a lot... the feeling of having sex "naturally", without a condom, or the interruption of pulling out, the feeling of come inside me, etc.

Anyway check it out, it's interesting - 100% effective against pregnancy, and completely reversible.

Also in other news, chocolate drought?

jane_e · 12-04-12 15:49:17

I saw some version of this article a little while ago too. I'm still not sure that it's real. Can it really be real? Are we sure this is real??? It just seems to good to be true...

I am still a die hard diaphragm user but they are basically impossible to get in Canada and it hardly seems fair that I always have to be the one worrying about the fishes (literally and figuratively). The sad thing is that that article probably will never make it into the average bedroom. Pharmaceutical companies make to much money on the pill (and ring, and patch and whatever) to ever let us believe that something like that is actually safe and effective and awesomely amazing. I already feel conditioned to believe that male birth control isn't real and I have a relatively open mind and I don't watch TV.

I wonder how many people read that article and seriously talked to their partner(s) about using it. Is male birth control just too...weird?

blissed · 12-04-12 19:07:09

I gave up chocolate ages ago, so don't eat it, but I might buy some as an invesrtment if it's going up in value.

The Indian procedure might be a good alternative to vasectomy at 1st and then if it seems easily reversable it might be used universally. You'd definitely want your tubes to work and issue fighting fit sperm after reversal.

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viva · 13-04-12 01:34:41

Hey Jane, I don't think this is pharmaceutical conspiracy or anything - though, what do I know! It totally could be. But I think the reason we never had male hormonal birth control was a) it maybe was quite hard to work out and b) we lived in a culture where men simply wouldn't have taken it.

Now, well, we don't. There's the positive side (more and more young men taking responsibility for their sexuality, better sex ed, etc) and the negative side (now women can't trap me no more into gettin thems preggers!), but the result is that we are more amenable to male birth control.

It's real, anyway, I think. I mean it's a fringe situation but while the late stage trial is only open to Indian men at the moment, in 2 years that will change. Even if it's not popular, the fact that I could pluck up my partner, fly over to India, and actually get this done in 2 years time is astonishing.

At the moment, it is easily reversible... the problem for me is that you need to predict 3 months before you want to get pregnant to reverse it. I am someone who feels sad using any kind of birth control at all really because I think kids should be able to come when they want to, so for me this would be an option to make sex way better and more fun possibly after I've had at least one kid.

But for people not considering getting pregnant anytime in the near future, it's perfect. A man can truly choose when he's ready to be a father - and it's entirely his responsibility to arrange for that medically. No more holes in condoms, guys who said "oh alright" because it just felt so good, no more forgotten pills - and this thing is 100% effective against pregnancy. Which means if it gets popular, many, many less surprise babies. And absolutely no possibility of using a pregnancy to keep your man.

jane_e · 13-04-12 02:35:04

viva wrote:

And absolutely no possibility of using a pregnancy to keep your man.

Haha. Damn. Looks like I'll have to move onto Plan B. I just can't seem to think of any other way to keep boys around....

I didn't really think about the natural making of children when you and your partner-type decide you want them. Three months seems like a lot of planning...especially if you have to send the boy back to India for the reversal. Either way I guess we all still have at least 2 years before its a real option.

blissed wrote:

I gave up chocolate ages ago, so don't eat it, but I might buy some as an invesrtment if it's going up in value.

How can you give up chocolate?? That's like trying to give up your Jane and Blissed's Super Swesome Sex Snuggie. Pretty much impossible.

viva · 13-04-12 04:06:36

This is why I bring that trap-yer-man thing up, a quote from another article:

“[I would take it because] It is time for men to have some control. I think it would empower men and deter some women out there from their nefarious plans,” says Brown. “Some women are out there to use men to get pregnant. This could deter women from doing this. An athlete or a singer is someone who could be a target and they could put a stop to that.”

God that guy comes off as a dick.

aven frey · 13-04-12 04:56:53

Oh man, I hope B.D Wong never get's this done.

blissed · 13-04-12 12:35:22

Jane people make light of chocolate addiction ignoring all the ruined lives and lost teeth. I'm just glad I came to my senses.

Having control over their reproduction is a much better selling point for this than Aha! now guys have the burden of birth control. Because the pill was a huge advance, and now our relationship to it has matured, we know it suits some and not others. If everyone has an ever developing range of choices including not having intercourse until they want babies, that would be good. If this Indian procedutre can prove it's reversible without causeing any kind of birth deffects, then it would be a nice option.

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