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... I’ve had no shortage of painfully inserted IUDs dislodge and stab my uterus, but yes, let’s 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 y’all can swallow a pill every single night, get injections & implants like the rest of us.
- Erin Charles @ercharles15
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OK. That there was really funny!!!
The only reason for them to be angry is because they no longer have the power to decide if and when a baby comes along.
Yes, let us encourage the hormonal abuse of men’s bodies and futures just like we have done to women.
All because unbridled sexual activity is an absolute need for rational humans just like non rational animals.
I think these women forget that their reproductive equipment is designed to work under all kinds of difficult situations. Forcing it to fail is not so easy.
Great insight! You may have described a revealing part of modern woman’s use of power. Their ability to abort is a fundamental part of their power.
They’re mad that they wouldn’t know if a guy is using that or not. Makes it risky to try to sperm-jack a guy.
I like it.
Women can be very ugly.
“Yeah baby, I promise...I use that new gel”
Why hasn't some genius female scientist discovered this? Does she really know how, but she wants to see you suffer? Or does she like men more than women? Yeah, it's got to be all of those.
Leftists are such victims.
Candy factory? It sounds like every semiconductor fab I’ve ever been in!
+1.
You have standards?
Who knew?
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All this ridiculous man hate bitchin reminds of when the news came out years ago about that “little blue pill” that would help cure male ED. The militant feminazis and Bull Dyke lesbians (redundant?) started bitchin about the HORROR of poor wives and girlfriends who would now have to “suffer” the sexual desire of their formally impotent male partners.
Um, yeah. But seriously, the skin is the body’s largest organ. So that’s why medication applied topically can definitely affect us.
Post. Of. The. Day.
More convenient than swallowing a pill...
actually its the decrease in male testosterone and sperm.....can't make babies if the male parts don't work or work poorly.
All this ridiculous man hate bitchin reminds of when the news came out years ago about that “little blue pill”
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You mean Celebrex helps with that? Gee, I guess I should be grateful for arthritis.
As well as their ability to entrap a man with a kid.
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