Posted on 12/06/2018 5:52:47 PM PST by servo1969
A large clinical trial launched this week will test a new, gel-based form of male birth control, Gizmodo reported Friday.
If it proves safe and effective, the gel could finally expand the very short list of contraceptive options that can be utilised by men.
"Many women cannot use hormonal contraception and male contraceptive methods are limited to vasectomy and condoms," study investigator Diana Blithe, said in a statement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is funding the trial.
"A safe, highly effective and reversible method of male contraception would fill an important public health need."
The gel, applied to the back and shoulders once daily, contains a combination of a progestin compound and testosterone that is absorbed through the skin.
The progestin reduces sperm production to "low or nonexistent levels," the NIH statement said, while the testosterone will work to maintain normal sex drive and other functions that require the hormone. The researchers plan to enroll 420 couples in the trial, the statement added.
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Y'all don't understand how angry I am about this, fine to prod us with needles and implants and alter our hormones every day but first male birth control and it's a simple and convenient GEL, I'm outta here https://t.co/mSdSg7Togj
- seagal (@lucybadlose) December 3, 2018
Well... Ive had no shortage of painfully inserted IUDs dislodge and stab my uterus, but yes, lets invent a birth control GEL for men. #maleprivilege
- Dr. Kehaulani Watson @hehawaiiau Dec 2
Male birth control is going to be rubbing a gel on your shoulders?! Nah yall can swallow a pill every single night, get injections & implants like the rest of us.
- Erin Charles @ercharles15
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This will never fly. The hormones on the man’s body will effect the women. Testosterone is very problematic to women. They develop male qualities when they come into contact with it, like growing hair.
They probably go home at night bitching to their cats that you refuse to to their work too. 😂
All sane males should avoid females that commented negatively like the plague.
They will all turn out to be Hillarys.
Vile, vindictive, and always angry.
Those women ARE birth control.
On the other hand, it might prevent the age-old "I know we only scrogged the once, but I missed my period" trap.
"Is that so? Well, honey, I've been using this gel, y'see, and it's pretty unlikely any baby you're expecting is mine."
Whadda they want us to use, a golf tee?
Feminism? = Birth Control? Yup, you got that right!
Thanks. I was wondering why any woman would take a mans word for it especially since she bears the consequences if he is an irresponsible liar.
Got you beat. 150 employees of which 7 were men. The 3 maintenance guys in their 50s, a Romanian in his 60s who panned all the sugar coated stuff, the owner and me at 25. 1/3rd old bitties and the rest early 20’s to 40ish. It was an education. Most women are crazy, mean, dumb as a stump, insanely vindictive and easily offended. It was worse than herding cats. Managing them was a job I was too young and dumb to realize was impossible so I just did it.
(Candy factory)
Panning is a black art. https://youtu.be/gVrqkLd_ZJ8?t=184
I propose that it be named Son Screen
Risk taking and wondering "if" are anathema to me. If I do it, I know ... without a doubt.
You may be assuming that these women are chaste and/or faithful.
My assumption was they were promiscuous, and thus believed they had to continue their own methods.
A primary value of the left has been sex without consequences, and no limits as to partners or responsibility.
And men win again.
They want the back rubs.
ONLY the back rubs.
Lord, I would never have sex with these harpies to begin with.
ROTFL
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