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A Promising Male Birth Control Trial Is Finally Happening, But Some Women Are Furious
Science Alert ^ | 11-6-2018 | CAROLINE PRADERIO

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birth; control; gel; male
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To: servo1969
Sorry, ladies. It's not our fault you carry the incubator and all we can do is plug it in.

OK. That there was really funny!!!

61 posted on 12/06/2018 7:11:37 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: jonrick46

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.


62 posted on 12/06/2018 7:14:12 PM PST by FLvoter
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To: servo1969

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.


63 posted on 12/06/2018 7:20:20 PM PST by amihow
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To: jonrick46
I don't understand why my mechanic can't fix my car's 8 cylinder engine for the same amount as the guy who fixes my one cylinder lawnmower. It's not fair!

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.

64 posted on 12/06/2018 7:21:15 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: FLvoter

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.


65 posted on 12/06/2018 7:21:27 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: servo1969

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.


66 posted on 12/06/2018 7:23:35 PM PST 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: servo1969

Women can be very ugly.


67 posted on 12/06/2018 7:24:02 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: DesertRhino

“Yeah baby, I promise...I use that new gel”


Totally


68 posted on 12/06/2018 7:26:34 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: sparklite2
ar more convenient than some of the birth control options currently available to women

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.

69 posted on 12/06/2018 7:29:58 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Candy factory? It sounds like every semiconductor fab I’ve ever been in!


70 posted on 12/06/2018 7:34:26 PM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: Migraine

+1.


71 posted on 12/06/2018 7:36:44 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Lazamataz
Lord, I would never have sex with these harpies to begin with.

You have standards?

Who knew?

};^P>

72 posted on 12/06/2018 7:39:50 PM PST by null and void (Socialist Worker's Party. If they ever get elected, you'll work and they'll party.)
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To: servo1969; All

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.


73 posted on 12/06/2018 7:41:34 PM PST by Synthesist
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Um, yeah. But seriously, the skin is the body’s largest organ. So that’s why medication applied topically can definitely affect us.


74 posted on 12/06/2018 7:46:03 PM PST by Reddy (B. O. stinks)
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To: txeagle
“Son Screen”

Post. Of. The. Day.

75 posted on 12/06/2018 7:48:12 PM PST by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: sparklite2

More convenient than swallowing a pill...


76 posted on 12/06/2018 7:53:17 PM PST by shotgun
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To: jonrick46
Not these nasty girls, that's for certain.
77 posted on 12/06/2018 7:53:38 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Migraine
"By far the best form of birth control in the past 30 years is feminism.

actually its the decrease in male testosterone and sperm.....can't make babies if the male parts don't work or work poorly.

78 posted on 12/06/2018 8:01:22 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: Synthesist

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.


79 posted on 12/06/2018 8:09:06 PM PST by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: jonrick46

As well as their ability to entrap a man with a kid.


80 posted on 12/06/2018 8:19:22 PM PST by FLvoter
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