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What’s the Status on Male Birth Control?
Natural Womanhood ^ | August 31, 2019 | Gabriella Patti

Posted on 09/01/2019 3:05:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For the past several years, many of us have seen headlines referencing the development of birth control drugs for men. It does seem like for too long women alone have borne the burden of pregnancy prevention, despite how baby-making requires two parties to take place. Further, since men are fertile 100% of the time, while women are only fertile about a quarter of the time in their menstrual cycles, it seems a little heavy-handed to put the responsibility solely on women, for couples hoping to postpone kids.

As it turns out, the history of birth control includes attempts to find a male contraceptive drug. One doctor who enthusiastically prescribed hormonal contraceptives to women in the 1960s explored this after she was dissatisfied to see the birth control side effects women were experiencing. What she found, and documented in her 1985 book The Bitter Pill, was that male birth control options also brought unsavory side effects. The only difference was that the discovery of these side effects halted developments of drugs for men, while women’s drugs continued to be widely prescribed.

Professor Janet E. Smith expounds on this in her much disseminated 1994 talk Contraception: Why Not? Commenting on how Dr. Grant found the attempt for male contraceptives had stalled, Smith explains, “There is a reason for that. In the study group of males, one male had some slight shrinkage of his testicles. Thus, all testing on the male contraceptive pill was stopped, since that is intolerable. Among the female study group three women died.” Jeanette Flood expounded on this last year on the occasion of International Women’s Day: “In the first two years of a contraceptive patch for women, at least six women died, possibly more. Why is this acceptable?” It’s a good question.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History; Miscellaneous; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: biology; contraception; malebirthcontrol; men; misogyny; puertorico; tests; women
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To: NorthMountain
Gentlemen: Only ever stick it in your wife. Ladies: Only ever spread ‘em for your husband.

Even then, women (who file over 70% of all divorces) have the option of leaving "because the thrill is gone", and financially raping the husband and depriving him of access to his kids. This is why increasing numbers of men have decided to skip marriage.

21 posted on 09/01/2019 3:40:39 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“What’s the Status on Male Birth Control?”

Unfortunately the little head is still in-control of the big one.


22 posted on 09/01/2019 3:42:05 PM PDT by VanDeKoik ( In heap big peace pipe)
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To: setter
A little shut off valve in the vas deferens would do the trick.

A ball valve?

23 posted on 09/01/2019 3:45:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: struggle
If male contraceptive is ever completed and sold, no woman can blackmail a guy again with a child.

Very true. I knew a guy who had a wife who tried this with him; but, he had gotten a vasectomy without her knowing, so no child support for that one.

24 posted on 09/01/2019 3:46:52 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Has anyone thought about restraint. All these guys talking about their ‘baby mama’s’ make me tired.


25 posted on 09/01/2019 3:48:25 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: PapaBear3625

OK. Skip marriage.

The advice still applies.

And yes, that means don’t stick it in any of the women you didn’t marry.


26 posted on 09/01/2019 3:48:47 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: struggle
If male contraceptive is ever completed and sold, no woman can blackmail a guy again with a child.

That is quite the fanciful thinking....

27 posted on 09/01/2019 3:50:17 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Tailback

>Which is why it will never be allowed to happen. If men had the ability to choose when they could intentionally impregnate a woman.......the welfare state would not exist 30 years later.

Bingo. Women want to control the issue. Male contraception male control.


28 posted on 09/01/2019 3:51:07 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What’s the status on birth control of male, and female liberals? That’s the answer I want.


29 posted on 09/01/2019 3:52:32 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Women and feminist demand to be 100% in control of birth. Look how they fight to keep a future dad from having ANY say in the abortion decision. Women want total control of most decisions.

If effective, cheap, male birth control becomes available, stand back and watch liberal heads explode.


30 posted on 09/01/2019 3:54:21 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I thought it was that I wasn’t that good looking.


31 posted on 09/01/2019 4:02:03 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Condoms have been around a lot longer that the pill


32 posted on 09/01/2019 4:06:02 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For the past several years, many of us have seen headlines referencing the development of birth control drugs for men. It does seem like for too long women alone have borne the burden of pregnancy prevention, despite how baby-making requires two parties to take place. Further, since men are fertile 100% of the time, while women are only fertile about a quarter of the time in their menstrual cycles, it seems a little heavy-handed to put the responsibility solely on women, for couples hoping to postpone kids.

What kind of hooey is this?

33 posted on 09/01/2019 4:13:24 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: setter

What a vast difference it means to me!


34 posted on 09/01/2019 4:16:10 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Easier solution is kill male children at birth and just turkey baste women from saved sperm

No more men

No more worries


35 posted on 09/01/2019 4:16:34 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Parthenogenesis
Turkeys do it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis


36 posted on 09/01/2019 4:20:29 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dress and act like a nerd and be careless in personal hygiene.


37 posted on 09/01/2019 4:20:37 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: ChildOfThe60s

One method is 100 % effective.. keep your zipper zipped. Or is self control too hard for soy boys?


38 posted on 09/01/2019 4:27:10 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Catholic Church is 100% right on this issue.

What is the church's opinion on this?

39 posted on 09/01/2019 4:31:56 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: momincombatboots
Or is self control too hard for soy boys?

I think they just do what they are told

40 posted on 09/01/2019 4:44:52 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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