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Now the chemical snip! Male pill works like a vasectomy - but will girls trust men to take it?
Daily Mail ^ | 12/03/2013 | BEN SPENCER

Posted on 12/03/2013 4:38:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A scientific breakthrough could finally make a male contraceptive pill reality, researchers said last night. Previous attempts to develop a pill have tried either to alter a man’s hormones or to make his sperm ineffective.

The new technique works like a temporary vasectomy, stopping sperm leaving the body during sex – which scientists say will reassure men concerned that other approaches could affect their long-term virility and libido.

It is also likely to appeal to women uneasy about the female pill’s potential to raise the risk of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: contraceptive
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1 posted on 12/03/2013 4:38:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

MORE HERE:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Male-contraceptive-pill-may-be-available-in-10-years/articleshow/26800185.cms

Male contraceptive pill may be available in 10 years

EXCERPT:

Scientists have taken a giant leap towards creating the world’s first oral contraceptive pill for men.

Currently, men can only use condom or undergo a surgical vasectomy as the proven form of contraception.

Scientists now say that a male contraceptive could be on the horizon - within 10 years after they identified a novel way to block the transport of sperm during ejaculation. Researchers from University of Melbourne and the University of Leicester, UK, collaborated on the study.

Publishing their results on Tuesday, scientists have found that complete male infertility could be achieved by blocking two proteins found on the smooth muscle cells that trigger the transport of sperm.


2 posted on 12/03/2013 4:39:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Men could also use my personality. It seems to work well.


3 posted on 12/03/2013 4:42:29 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: SeekAndFind

PURE science fiction. A future government slips the male contraceptive into the water supply.

Never could happen here.


4 posted on 12/03/2013 4:43:26 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

You mean saltpeter?


5 posted on 12/03/2013 4:44:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nano MAN-icals.


6 posted on 12/03/2013 4:45:11 PM PST by DManA
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To: SeekAndFind

As if the only use of a condom is to prevent unwanted pregnancy.


7 posted on 12/03/2013 4:50:25 PM PST by fso301
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To: SeekAndFind

General Ripper knows they’re just after your precious bodily fluids...


8 posted on 12/03/2013 4:50:41 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: Hardraade

stopping sperm leaving the body during sex

Huh??


9 posted on 12/03/2013 4:52:36 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No need for this, just register as a Democrat.


10 posted on 12/03/2013 4:53:47 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Men will not take it.

They are much more comfortable with women swallowing chemical weapons.


11 posted on 12/03/2013 4:54:05 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Venturer

It stops the sperm from reaching the ejaculate.


12 posted on 12/03/2013 4:54:08 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As I understand the effects of saltpeter, you would know something was going on. If your boys were MAN-icaled you might not suspect.


13 posted on 12/03/2013 4:54:41 PM PST by DManA
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To: Venturer

Like they're going to stop to ask directions??!

14 posted on 12/03/2013 4:59:51 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are no harmful side-effects. Honest. It’s safer than candy.


15 posted on 12/03/2013 5:00:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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appeals to "...women uneasy about the female pill’s potential to raise the risk of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots."

My eyes bugged out on that one. We've been saying that for decades, and have been called liars for it, and now they just slip that in there, like "everybody knows..."

16 posted on 12/03/2013 5:00:49 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures..)
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To: Ezekiel

Back in the day you just had to put a rock in your shoe.

It made you limp.

Will be here all week...lol


17 posted on 12/03/2013 5:02:54 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: SeekAndFind
...stopping sperm leaving the body during sex – which scientists say will reassure men concerned that other approaches could affect their long-term virility and libido.

It's amazing that some men would believe that a vasectomy (real or chemical) would affect "long-term virility and libido." I had a real vasectomy in 1971 and it had no such effect on me. I'm a sample of one but I've never read of any medical reports to the contrary. Some people have too much imagination.

18 posted on 12/03/2013 5:03:03 PM PST by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: SeekAndFind

NO THANKS


19 posted on 12/03/2013 5:06:31 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Case back hoe for sale or trade for diesel wood chipper....Enforce the Bill of Rights. It's the Law!)
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To: S.O.S121.500

I DON’T SHOOT BLANKS!


20 posted on 12/03/2013 5:12:44 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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