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A new 'male birth control' pill might be safe, but there's still a long way to go, researchers say
CNN ^ | March 25, 2019 | Michael Nedelman

Posted on 03/25/2019 6:31:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Many people are looking forward to a time when men will be able to take an oral contraceptive.

But there's a challenge with hormonal birth control: suppressing testosterone in men to super-low levels while avoiding the side effects of low hormone levels, such as changes in sexual function. (Of course, side effects have affected some women since the US Food and Drug Administration first approved "the pill" in 1960.)

Researchers have looked at a number of ways to do this -- not only through a pill, but also through an injection and a topical gel. And now there's a new drug in pill form, which has been evaluated for safety, though not effectiveness. The preliminary results of the latest drug -- which goes by the abbreviation 11-beta-MNTDC -- were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: birthcontrol; birthcontrolpill; malebirthcontrol; thepill
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Wonder how feminists will react to this.
1 posted on 03/25/2019 6:31:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Morning after? ;-)


2 posted on 03/25/2019 6:38:42 PM PDT by moonhawk (Excuse me...Did you just presume the gender of the Earth Deity?)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s called pulling out...


3 posted on 03/25/2019 6:38:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EdnaMode

It comes in the shape of a champagne cork...and you don’t swallow it.


4 posted on 03/25/2019 6:40:11 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: EdnaMode

Its an old story.

They reacted exactly how you suspect they would.


5 posted on 03/25/2019 7:11:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode
Barriers, diaphragms, jellies & jams, insertable, implantable, injectable, subdermal, oralcontraceptive hormones, spraying and spaying, neutering, doctoring, maiming, disabling, deforming, "fixing," poisoning, aborting, crushing, dismembering, tying tubes, cutting ducts, cutting heads, smashing, deviancies, lesbianism, buggery, anti-natural marriage, ati-natural-sex, anti-natural gender, trans-sex, anti-sex, quasi-sex, pseudo-sex, cross-sex antagonism, sexbots, vibrators, dummies, dildoes, rejection, dejection, subjection, nihilism, infanticide, suicide.

We didn't have enough ways to greet new life with a knife?

We didn't have enough ways to say no to our own living future? We didn't have enough ways to slap our Creator in the face? We didn't have enough ways to be sterile?

6 posted on 03/25/2019 7:15:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." - Billie Holliday)
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To: EdnaMode

The new male birth control pill is both safe and effective, it works by shrinking the male genital member to half it’s normal size...


7 posted on 03/25/2019 7:16:29 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: EdnaMode

How about NO!!!


8 posted on 03/25/2019 7:18:17 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Leftism is a satanic death cult.


9 posted on 03/25/2019 7:19:23 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: EdnaMode

Side effects may include, indigestion, irritability, blurred vision, your balls falling off, constipation, penis falling off, problems urinating because your penis fell off, erectile dysfunction due to your penis falling off, incredible laughter from your friends for having no balls or penis because you trusted a drug and were too stupid to wear a condom, insomnia over becoming a Eunuch......


10 posted on 03/25/2019 7:23:33 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputecan')
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To: EdnaMode

A Rosie O’Donnell mask for the Mrs?


11 posted on 03/25/2019 7:40:47 PM PDT by Gman
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To: EdnaMode

“Trust me baby, I’m on the male pill...”

You gonna roll the dice ladies?


12 posted on 03/25/2019 7:47:26 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Good lord. Ok, I have never seen the issue framed like you just did. Sure brings the reality of what humanity is doing home.

(Shaking my head..)

BTW, I hope you’re having a good lent


13 posted on 03/25/2019 7:50:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

As a woman that’s exactly what I was thinking! And even if you are in a loving relationship what woman is going to accept that their man hasn’t, maybe, forgotten to take a pill? Women forget pills all the time. At least they can then take other precautions. I just don’t think men would realize that in a timely manner!


14 posted on 03/25/2019 7:55:53 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: EdnaMode

Every play will claim to be on this birth control. “Oh ya, you can trust me.”


15 posted on 03/25/2019 8:32:47 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: moonhawk

All birth control is evil
Especially abortion and condoms


16 posted on 03/25/2019 8:36:47 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Bommer

LOL.


17 posted on 03/25/2019 8:41:21 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Gman

>A Rosie O’Donnell mask for the Mrs?

That would give a man nightmares for life.


18 posted on 03/25/2019 9:54:58 PM PDT by ConsCA
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To: Truthoverpower

I’m Catholic. I agree.


19 posted on 03/25/2019 10:24:35 PM PDT by moonhawk (Excuse me...Did you just presume the gender of the Earth Deity?)
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To: EdnaMode

Lorraina Bobbit had a “male birth control” device decades ago. It still works in the right hands.


20 posted on 03/25/2019 10:41:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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