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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It 80%, not 70%. 4 to 1 ratio.
Also, women shouldn't live their lives on their backs with their legs spread open.
See my post #4. Easy male contraception will not happen because it will be too effective. We can implant replacement heart valves, replacement hips, replacement knees, but a implantable valve for the vas deferens doesn’t exist? Sell me a bridge. The Welfare state will collapse and take the banks with it.
Rodney explains
Rodney Dangerfield at His Best on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1983)
https://youtu.be/LGvnHvba_b0?t=130
Instead of separating the Vas Deferens they should put in a micro ball valve that can be remotely operated. If you want kids, just push a button on your smart phone or a remote control.
Do I need a sarc tag?
In days of old when knights were bold
before rubbers were invented
they tied their socks around their c**ks
and babies were prevented
Yours along with just one other is the only perfect reply, and the only one not sexist at the same time.
“If men had the ability to choose when they could intentionally impregnate a woman”
Condoms?
It has been available for several hundred years.
It is easily obtainable and cheap.
As a bonus it even cuts down on STD transmission.
It's only drawback is that, like every other form of birth control, it has to be used.
diaphragm, pill, plan B, IUD, etc........what’s your poinr?
Point is there is already a form of male birth control. So if a man doesn’t want to be a father he can take precautions for himself (if he doesn’t want to keep it zipped) and not have to rely on the woman’s word that she is on the pill or otherwise infertile at the time.
A woman can hold her knees together also. So if a woman doesn’t want to be a mother she can take precautions for herself. If she doesn’t want to keep her knees together, the state will the father paid for by taxes paid by men.
I’m not disagreeing with that; I’m just saying responsibility is a two-way street. Right now, as you point out, men have more to lose from parenthood than women do, so they should be taking precautions, not just assuming the woman is on the pill. I’m basically agreeing with you FRiend.
Each year, about 500,000 men in the US get a vasectomy with rates higher among more educated and higher-income men. Might as well be sure.
rwood
“You only have to stop one egg, not millions of sperm.”
True, WRT a monogamous couple.
But the woman can only be pregnant once in 9 months.
A horndog could impregnate multiple women in 9 months.
Yep, but you gotta watch the back pressure.
Technically it’s a ball valve,bbut we call em ballcock valves.
Tried using cutouts once but it were just to messy. The kept gummin up and I had to use WD40 to keep em flushed. I thought about installing a dump valve and bypass line but there were space limitations. Friend of mine is working on a laser evaporation device. He says the batteries are too bulky and an extension cord just gets wrapped around his legs.
On the plus side, he says women is mighty impressed, they say say it looks just like a light sabre. Thelma wants to hang ornaments on it an use it as decoration. If he ever perfects it I’m gonna get me one.
My granpappy always said, “Never draw your gun unless you aim to use it.”
If she has the right to kill it, I should have the right to abandon it.
Quote: Chappelle circa 2019
The Catholic Church’s opinion is that contraception of every kind is fundamentally anti-human and antithetical to God’s plans and purposes for human procreation AND enjoyment of sex.
Best summed up in Pope Pius’ landmark 1968 document ‘Humanae Vitae’ written just as the birth control pill hit the market and a few years before the passage for Roe v. Wade in the United States. Sexual revolution already in full swing.
He made several predictions about the implications of the pill. All of which came true in the span of a few decades.
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