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Trial For The Male Pill Shows No Side-effects
Blahbooboo3 writes "Men concerned about contraception may soon be able to use the male equivalent of the Pill, without the potential side-effects of a drug based on altering the balance of sex hormones. The drug, called Adjudin, works by disrupting the interaction that takes place in the testicles between immature sperm cells and the nurse cells responsible for nurturing sperm to maturity. The germ cells need to adhere to the nurse cells for sperm to properly develop, and the drug prevents this bond from forming. It looks like it will be a gel patch type of applicator."
Actually, I take it back, the chances are significant that reversal procedures don't succed.
Depends -- technology hasn't exactly stood still. There's a variety of options out there these days, including things that are effectively clamps that are put onto the tubes (instead of cutting them) that can be removed fairly easily at some later day. Usually there's some additional (minor, outpatient) surgery needed to re-open your tubing as it tends to grow shut where it was clamped shut, but the success-rate of that stuff apears to be a lot higher than trying to re-attach hoses that were disconnected for many years.
It's been many years since I've read up that kind of thing, but at the time there were new options almost on an annual basis.
(Writing this as a guy whos "between 25 and 35" period started in the 90ies and who's slept with double-digit numbers of folks during that decade. Dunno what people's problem is. Maybe if you didn't try to have sex with ugly women who don't want to have sex with you but instead try to bed the cute and horny ones you'd be more successful? Just a suggestion...)
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