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Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive
TeslaBoy writes "The BBC has an article about using ultrasound aimed at the testicles as a reversible male contraceptive. This can last for six months. With a grant of $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, researchers at the University of North Carolina will push ahead with more clinical trials, fine tuning, and safety tests."
Don't let Microsoft point ultrasonic emitters at your nuts.
Stay away from my nuts!
>> ultrasound aimed at the testicles
That just sounds nuts!
I hope it's more effective than your first post attempts or somebody will be calling you Daddy soon ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You are on /. , I don't think anyone of us has to worry about birth control. On the other hand, Microsoft having access to people's nuts... That could be worrying.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Just want to say, NOT HAPPENING. I'm happy using abstinence as a contraceptive. 100% effective. (:
I agree, keeping it in your pants sounds a lot easier than someone pointing something at your boys and saying "this might tingle a little..."
Jesus fucking Christ, why didn't I HEAR about this earlier?
You can't handle the truth.
rofl
It is definitely more effective. ;)
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
ZAP! . . . you're it!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
This can last for six months.
There are a number of areas in my life where YMMV is fine, and I'll take the risk, but I don't think contraception will be one of them.
So was I the only one who crossed their legs while reading the story?
http://malecontraceptives.org/methods/adjudin.php It is very effective and most importantly safe. You only need an injection of it every few months, and it is bound to an inactive version of the FSH hormone that only gets picked up by one place in the body, the testes. It is perfect and I want it now!
I wonder what the original researchers were thinking to discover this. Sounds like a close intimate moment with pregnant mother and unborn baby went a bit, ahem, south.
If this is cheap and effective, it sounds like a good decision. If you're in a monogamous relationship, say bye-bye to condoms! You also don't have to subject your female partner to a birth control regimen, which throws her hormones out of whack and can have all kinds of terrible side effects like migraines, random menstrual flow, etc.
Raters gon' rate.
...I might consider it. There's no more selfish act in the world than having your own children.
just get married instead?
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
Gives new meaning to the term "Hum Job."
Howard Roark, Architect
I believe in a Man's right to exist for his own sake.
How exactly is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation connected to Microsoft? The largest transparently-operated private foundation in the world doesn't have a lot in common with Microsoft Corp. In fact, there's only one thing I can think of that they do have in common.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
they don't: the foundation is just funding the research, it's just a standard ultrasound machine.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's guiding philosophy is the Limits To Growth as described in the '72 book commissioned by the Club of Rome. The interest in the third world is the reduction in population growth to head off the bloody global competition for resources. Predominately the approach for this has been in trying to raise the conditions of living to first world standards, as population growth in the first world is basically nil or declining. However, the dark side to Limits To Growth (or I guess I should say "darker") is the prediction that this will fail and only a China style One Child Policy and mass sterilization programs will be effective for limiting population growth. As such, seeing that they are funding this kind of research now is a very bad sign.
How we know is more important than what we know.
that can scramble an egg while its still inside its shell... presumably without the use of a needle... I am sorry you want to point an ultrasonic what at my what?!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
" "this might tingle a little..."
"..but for an extra 100, it will tingle a lot."
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The Nazis did this with x-rays at Auschwitz and Birkenau (that I know of, and probably others). Apropos of nothing, but this is hardly groundbreaking!
That works great right up to the point where some girl with a thing for nerds decides to jump you.
Don't laugh, it could happen to you (it's not likely of course, but it is possible).
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
So you're basically signing up to a good solid kick in the balls every 6 months?
I'd imagine that's what a "blast of ultrasound" feels like...
Or maybe it's more akin to a solid grinding...
As a result of an earlier Slashdot article discussing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's support for eliminating diseases in developing countries, there was a discussion suggesting population control might be a better place to invest.
It looks like the Gates foundation is not ignoring this issue.
-Todd
Omne ignotum pro magnifico.
Bender: What should we point it at first?
Fry: I dunno. Try it on me!
[Zap]
Fry: Ow! My sperm!
Bender: Wow! Neat! Mind if I try that again?
[Zap]
Fry: Huh, didn't hurt that time.
seems like a great way to conduct mass sterilization on populations that are swelling out of control.....
I'm happy using abstinence as a contraceptive.
See, you -say- you're happy, but then you say you're abstaining... which is it?
Eliminating disease is about population control. Wherever there is high mortality rates there is high population growth. It's just human nature: death is all around, make more babies.
How we know is more important than what we know.
But at the same time, as a man who is paranoid about accidentally reproducing, having extra reassurances like this is a nice benefit, to say the least. Women can reassure themselves by going on birth control, but for men, we have the condom, and trusting that she's actually taking whatever BC she says she is.
"Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive"
So they idea is to aim the sound of Freddie Mercury's voice at your balls? I can see where that would shrivel them up.
Yes Bill, give more money for contraceptives...
= Less people on the planet...
= Less people to buy your great software...
How smart are you?
Has anyone else noticed how the high pitch screech of a wife or girlfriend yelling at you has the same effect?
I hope it's more effective than your first post attempts or somebody will be calling you Daddy soon ;)
If not, he'll be lucky if someone calls him Daddy. Chances are better that he'll be foregoing a large portion of his income for the next 18 years with nothing to show for it.
In fact, there's only one thing I can think of that they do have in common.
Virility-destroying products?
The enemies of Democracy are
Evil intent?
Why do you assume that this is the Gates Foundation's "guiding philosophy?"
Is it the mere mention of contraception?
Why do you assume this will somehow be mandatory, or for that matter lead to "fascism?" (Historically, fascists regimes were big of keeping women at home making babies to grow up to be soldiers.)
With this technology, why just limit yourself to Pandora's box?
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
These guys are geniuses. How else are half a dozen clinical researchers going to get laid, anyway?
"Why does this request for research participants say 'No Uggos'? Is that code for something?"
Please tell me how / why / what the difference is (SPL? Hz? Interference pattern?) because on the face of it you're talking about two opposing effects.... ... unless of course it is decreasing male sperm counts correlating with the use of ante-natal ultrasound scans...
thank fuck I'm old enough I only had to (retrospectively) worry about thalidomide and rickets.
http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal
contraceptive sexes male.
Didn't we just see a story about this? Or is Ball Lightning not the same thing?
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Sounds unpleasant. Fortunately, being a regular Slashdotter, I have no need of contraceptives.
Maybe a strong enough monitor could allow the BSOD to irradiate your nuts
A bunch of dumb people on slashdot making stupid, worn out jokes about them?
Now if I can just get a ringtone for that...
You mean their respecive founders right? Amirite? Do I get a prize?
A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
I want to get fixed, but getting clipped honestly scares the crap out of me. Just the thought of it has me closing my legs tightly.
I have such a low tolerance for pain just the thought of it makes me ill.
I'm not letting them get anywhere near me with those sonic screwdrivers.
The problem is that there is a delay between elimination of the disease and population control. Humans continue making more babies for quite a while until they realize that there is no need to compensate for death.
The population boom in Africa in fact at least partially is caused by the elimination of the disease.
Imagine you're Bill Gates, you're the richest guy in the world, yet you still have to sit in traffic. So why not devote the rest of your life to population control?
yes, Bill gates made a donation, clearly that means MS will ahve access.
also, Bill Gate bought a slurpee and 7-11 so now MS is spying on you in all 7-11.
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I carry around a sonic screwdriver and I can assure you it works very effectively as a contraceptive
I would imagine that people said the same thing about the birth control pill 50 years ago.
yes, they should listen to some boob on the internet who has no idea what there talking about instead if investing money with experts who understand what they are doing.
Just because your on the internet with an opinion doesn't make you an expert.
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oh have a sense of humor.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Why use such a high tech method when a simple hammer can produce the same results?
Got Code?
Psht.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
"This Is" disappeared from my post, weird.
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What's scary is it's true. I already know a (hot) woman with a thing for nerds. Granted she has greater restraint than that, but ya know, when I'm hot, I'm hot. ;)
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
"uh... HELL NO!!!!"
You are not zapping my #@&$ with sperm death ray!
You know, the Woman God raped.
So you accept Jesus as the product of immaculate conception?
Maybe he was just a magical turd like Mr. Hankey.
Wives discovered a long time ago that screaming loudly enough in the vicinity of their husband's testicles somehow "magically" prevented pregnancy. It prevented a lot of other things too, but that's beside the point.
I get modded down as overrated and this doesn't even get troll or flamebait? I'd sigh dramatically and state how I've lost faith in /. moderators, but that would indicate that I had faith in them to begin with.
Been here too long to have any faith in them.
Or to respond directly to such obvious trolling/flamebaitery.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
That would fall under the purvey of the "safety research" that the Gates are funding. It's not like they're opening clinics in 7-11 just yet.
The ______ Agenda
Scientists explained that they found the effect quite by accident, an accident involving attempting to get their girlfriend pregnant and repeated, long-term use of an ultrasonic toothbrush in a way that was not intended by the manufacturer.
As part of normal followups from testicular cancer, one typically gets 3-6mo screenings via ultrasound to verify no reoccurrance. I wonder if potentially these screenings could have the effect or the partial effect of making one sterile for periods. It will be interesting to find out more information on the procedure.
I think South Park was the location of these clinical trials
Read what I mean, not what I wrote.
I had my testicles ultra-sounded for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicocele , I got my ex-wife pregnant the next week.
1) Install Neutering Device driver in a service pack or "security update"
2) Threaten to activate at will if running old versions of MS bloatware
3) Profit
This being /. I'm surprised no one got the "Real Genius" reference :
"Jordan: What happened? How come you're up so late?
Mitch: Well, I just got back from helping Chris and there was a woman in my room.
Jordan: Pardon?
Mitch: A woman. She was an adult.
Jordan: Oh.
Mitch: She wanted...She wanted to...Oh god, how can I say this as not to offend you?
Jordan: Jump you?
Mitch: Yeah. "
jdb2
Hmm, how much ultrasonic power do they have, anyway? Could be fun....hey, weren't the showers on the Enterprise sonic showers? Wondered why there were so few kids around....
All stalk and no roots.
Talk about a single voice in the wilderness..
Dr. Who fans will love it. Just tell them it's a sonic screwdriver and they'll line up around the block.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
what, by playing the sound backwards? it sounds like it is temporary, but not reversible!
Mary was the one who was immaculately conceived, not Jesus. It's how Jesus wasn't afflicted with original sin, because otherwise Mary would have given it to him with her filthy human vagina.
What man would possibly object to his balls being blasted with ultrasound until they stop working?
They can call it the Nutsonic BallBlaster 2000!
More seriously, since it's effects are temporary but last several months, I imagine there will be any number of cases where a man becomes fertile again sooner than expected and with no warning sign. That could be a problem.
If I was in charge, men would be required to get an ultrasound shot to the nuts in order to receive their welfare check.
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
Precisely the same effect can be achieved by staying in a room full of snot-drippers for 1 hour.
Wow my first troll mod! It actually feels pretty good!
I'd like to start by thanking all the little people in my life, you all helped to make this day happen. My principal in high school for showing me how to use the soap in the gym showers, the doctor for my first rectal exam, GNAA for all their great posts and informative commentary. I couldn't have done it with out all your support!
A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.
I just had a testicular ultrasound done at the end of last November (testicular cancer check). My wife and I have been unable to successfully conceive these past six months. According to this article, I should be good to go in about two weeks. I hope this is the case, as I was afraid that having only one testis left was severely inhibiting our ability to have children.
... I'm sitting in a boring wireless network security course, slowly being tortured to death by Powerpoint and a pendantic lecture delivered in monotone (Charlie Brown's teacher), but the first thing I thought of when I read the headline was "denial of service attack".
Anyone remember Therac-25?
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved with at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, approximately 100 times the intended dose.[2] Three of the six patients died as a direct consequence. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering.
(more after the link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Also a sidenote, I see how some people program (which is scary), to have them develop a machine aiming stuff at my balls, I would need to be on ALOT of drugs to agree to that.
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
I hope they're not trying to hit a resonance. I figured that, given the length of suspension as a pendulum, mine have a natural frequency somewhat below 1 Hz.
Have gnu, will travel.
My first thought was Big Brother is going to sterilize us all.
I admit that as I came to post this, I noticed that the story was tagged "ringtone" and now Slashdot collectively owes me a new keyboard.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
My method is the most efficient. See nickname for details.
Ok, you're not misogynistic but misanthropic.
The one hummer in life that you DON'T enjoy.
Oh yes -- get ready for the Blue Balls Of Death!!
Just plop your meat in the bulk eraser?
No stronger aphrodisiac than a pile or rotting corpses, eh?
Don't let Microsoft point ultrasonic emitters at your nuts.
Blue Ball of Death?
Well, maybe the UltraSound PnP, but not the UltraSound MAX!
SPLAT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnpoTGzlX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdTymCZowU
Jokes aside this does sound a great alternative to the pill, shot or tube tieing that women have to go through or the needle in the nut and a snip that men have to go through to stop from making the babies.
Ave Molech Setting
Must be a different frequency than is used for imaging/diagnostics. I had an ultrasound done on the right side of my nuts last year and 3 months later my wife was knocked up.
This is not breaking news. Unless you think 33 years is acceptable for reporting a breakthrough.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/407106
It's been in the Windows EULA since ME.
badvibrations or goodvibrations ?
You never expect irony, do you?
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@iyfwrestling
The connection is easy. Computer users in third world countries usually don't buy Windows. It's a clever plot on Bill's part with Melinda's blessing to cut down on the number of non-Windows users.
(and I bet you thought that no one on /. could turn an article on contraception into something anti-Microsoft. Ta-Da!!!)
Cheers,
Dave
P.S. For the humor impaired, just kidding.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Now I have to wear tinfoil on my cock too.
640 kilohertz ought to be enough for anybody
Don't worry about getting pregnant, I just had a hummer 3 months ago....
One time I had to get this excel spreadsheet done for a sales meeting and it kept crashing, so I've already had my nuts fried by Bill Gates thank you very much.
You are on /. , I don't think anyone of us has to worry about birth control.
Speak for yourself. I've been with my wife for 21+ years. She wasn't sure she wanted kids, so we used birth control for almost 5 years after we were married. She decided she wanted a baby; we stopped using birth control and she was pregnant in 3 weeks. We started using birth control again after the first baby was born, until she decided she wanted another 6 years later. It was kind of late in her cycle, so this time it took 5 weeks. She had a tubal during her cesarean, since she was near 40 and therefore considered herself too old to have any more kids. That was over seven years ago. If it weren't for that, we would *still* be using some other method of birth control, multiple times a week :-). And yes, I know they are both mine. They're *way* too much like me to belong to anyone else.
--Rubinstien
Ow My Balls!
Blue balls of death
how is babby formed?
abstinence has a few unacceptable side effects. chief among them is not getting any sex.
Ha ha only serious. What ungodly combination of medical treatment, promiscuity, infertility, and serendipity did it take to discover that ultrasound halts impregnation? What kind of sick doctors are these?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Q: What did the comedian say to the crowd?
A: If I knew, this joke would be funny.
1) get a man to care about contraception ...
2)
3) (still waiting for #1)
-Styopa
Good to see Bill is on the right side of this debate..!
Well, lets see.
A) Have sex and get a woman pregnant (or get pregnant if you are a woman); possibly get or transfer an STI
or
B) Not have sex and not worry about any of the above
I pick B!
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Brings a whole new concept to feeling the good vibes down there.
... just listen to some Britney Spears?
Join the window installer's union, where prosperity is a brick throw away!
...we should secretly add one of these emitters, working at equal wattage. I hypothesize it could cause a massive drop-off in general douchebaggery and fatherless kids over the next 20 years.
What good is a hum job if only mosquitoes can hear it?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
I didn't know I had a 21st finger until my grandma died; she always talked about her husband's one-eyed trout, and my uncle talked about his tentacle, but they were always so much less endowed compared to my 8-inch finger. Smaller packages are the cuteness that women want, and I got the shaft :-/.
Just want to say, NOT HAPPENING. I'm happy using abstinence as a contraceptive. 100% effective. (:
Why is your mouth above your eyes?
Posts like these remind me that the Internet is a lot like Lake Wobegon.
The funny part of your post is your pretending that the choice is the reason you're stuck with B.
In all seriousness...
Can people who've had a vasectomy weigh in on how their procedure has affected the volume, taste, or physical qualities of their semen? I've heard both stories regarding volume (it reduces volume, it doesn't reduce volume), and nothing regarding taste and other physical qualities.
Believe it or not, this is a concern to my girlfriend and I, and I appreciate any informed feedback.
You won't even hear it coming.
choose girlfriends like this? Does she have no money? Does she like the idea of being a stay home mom or likes being lazy? Hates work?
Are you made of money or something?
If you have well functioning balls, this will not work without long term use. After kid #5( hence the reference to well functioning), I had a vasectomy. It took 7 months(it felt like 5 years) before I had a zero sperm count from the medical tests. And that was with doing my thing at least once every two days, and many times much more than that. This sounds like a great new thing, but unless the procedure kills the little buggers, it will not be a solution you can use right away.
A year too late :(
Now she says it's rape.
She didn't tell me about Joseph either, lying whore.
Yes son, I just called you mother a whore, lazy sod wont even get up for another three days.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
C) Use a miraculous device called a Condom and enjoy great sex without worrying about anything.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
What a handy tool for ethnic cleansing. No doubt China will start using it in Tibet in no time !
In fact, there's only one thing I can think of that they do have in common.
Virility-destroying products?
If you call Bill Gates a product. Virility-destroying, I think we can all agree with.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Not me. You let them do that, and the next thing you know they will be microwaving them.
...So I just stand here in front of this ray-gun looking thing, right? Actually, you go first.
..My principal in high school for showing me how to use the soap in the gym showers, the doctor for my first rectal exam..
I'm disturbed that your post was marked informative
Microsoft the clue is in the name :)
While Bill's improving human reproduction, how about a Start button?
Or is it; For whom the bell tolls?
And yet in most places with high birth rates, the mortality rates have been enormously reduced with the introduction of modern medicine, sanitation and higiene while the birth rates didn't actually decrease, which is why many poor and middle-wealth countries now have exceptionally high population growth rates - same number of births, lower number of deaths.
In fact, excluding laws to that effect (such as China's One Child Policy) the reduction in birth rates seems to be more correlated with wealth and education than with mortality rates.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/272750-pic-funny-bill-gates-pics-from-1983/#entry585309992 /Ducks
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
> Let me fix that for you to say what your mind was thinking before it edited its output for polite conversation:
Actually, my mind was thinking that the world will be glad not to have more people like you.
Stop supporting people who can't take care of themselves and the problem solves itself naturally in short order.
You know... back when you first came out.
Instead, they've let you live.
So you can grow up believing "This will never happen to me. And if it did I am sure that I will be strong enough to take it as a man."
Well... Mr. Bootstrap Man, a suggestion. Next time at the dentist try having your root canal done without anesthetic. Just to show how manly you are.
Or better yet - burn everything you have now and show us how you can make it all back and more all on your own. Without any help from anyone.
I am sure that it will all get solved naturally in short order.
It could be as simple as that if mortality rate is high, the only way to give your genes a chance at survival is to have a ton of kids. It could be that when things suck, fucking is one of the only things you can do to have any fun and humans will do it despite the consequences. Could be a combination of things.
Whatever the case, population growth goes down as quality of life goes up. In first world nations population growth is generally under 1%, and sometimes even slightly negative.
This was one of the big things that the malthusian types didn't account for. They assumed that people were like bacteria, in that the more ideal the conditions for reproduction, the more they'd do it. With simple organisms it does work that way. Give them lots of food and space and they'll grow and grow at exponential rates. They thought humans would do the same and thus industrialized nations were so fucked because population would explode and crash.
Well, turns out humans are far more complex and it works the opposite. Improve quality of life, and you see a decrease in reproduction. I mean a normal American household could probably support 20+ kids when you get down to it, and deaths from childbirths is rare due to the medical system we have. There is plenty of food, plenty of space, etc. Nobody says it'd be luxurious living, but we are talking about the ability to have lots of kids and keep them alive. However that's not what people choose to do. They choose to have small families normally, sometimes even no families.
If we want to slow population growth, the answer is to improve standards of living around the world and get cheap, easy contraception available. Give people a good life and the ability to choose, and you'll find they do choose to have less kids.
Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights with your headphones in your crotch.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
they found a use for all those old Gravis soundcards.
Boring as shit?
Initially there is a difference due to the fact that internally, the body needs some time to adjust to the fact that no sperm cells are released anymore. A couple of weeks afterward, everything was back as is was before, minus the fertility.
Bill Gates doesn't buy a slurpee. He buys several slurpee producers, makes smaller slurpees with less flavor and gives them away for free until the majority of competition is gone. Seeing how Bill Gates came to his success, i wouldn't let any product that involved his money get anywhere near my balls.
Or possibly it works the other way? You eliminate the disease and people don't worry about having so many children? How does lowering the population reduce the amount of disease?
How do you propose that society support people who have 12 kids, like the Octomom?
Octomom should have been sewn-up and never allowed to reproduce. Yeah, sew her mouth, vagina and anus shut so nothing gets in or out.
On the other hand, this form of birth-control might be ideal to stop rabbit-like breeding in impoverished countries such as India and China where the population is nothing more than a source of cheap labor for multinational corporations. Can the entire population be temporarily sterilized at one time?
I've replied in a different place in this thread as well, but since you ask...
Initially, there was an adjustment period of a couple of weeks where the consistency was different (more watery). This lasted a couple of weeks, and I assume it has to do with the body readjusting for the lack of actual sperm cells. After a month or so (no more than 2 months definitely) everything was back to normal. There were no changes whatsoever to anything except fertility.
A friend of mine had the same treatment done (different hospital) and told me it was just like I said.
The treatment itself is also nothing to be afraid of. Sure the general scrotum area is a bit sensitive the first couple of days, but a week after the surgery everything was OK. The surgery itself lasted about 20 minutes and was completely painless, involving nothing more than local anesthetic.
I like CBT as much as the next guy.
I like vibrators too.
So if this hurts just a little, sign me up! After I get going, you can turn up the pain level. Oooooh, that's nice. Right there. THERE, THERE!
Is there an "insert" available too?
I don't know about you, but I don't want to let anything near MY testicles,
especially cold machinery used to temporarily render my balls useless.
It's a left-handed smilie (:
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
orly? I've had more than ample opportunity to rectify said situation if I so chose. I haven't, because I'm quite happy where I am right now. (:
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Condom is only about 89% effective against pregnancies and STIs (the percentage is much lower if used improperly, and the percentage is based on "ideal" conditions of use).
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
" "this might tingle a little..."
"..but for an extra 100, it will tingle a lot."
Hey did we meet last Friday night?
"It looks like you're trying to kill your balls. Can I help?" --aptly named "Clippy"
They're adding something to it!
I think I read somewhere that there is a noticeable increase in birth rate increase 9 months after funerals (for those that attended said funeral).
ha... Plan A!
(coming down, I'll bring ice cream)
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
How exactly is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation connected to Microsoft? The largest transparently-operated private foundation in the world doesn't have a lot in common with Microsoft Corp. In fact, there's only one thing I can think of that they do have in common.
All hail the privileged robber baron who now shares a few pennies of his ill gotten gains to promote good publicity. And don't notice what the other hand is doing behind his back. Doesn't anyone read history books any more?
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
Ok, our operating system and applications may suck, but stop buying Apple products or we'll sterilize your nuts! How many Apple fanboys would choose their Mac over their testicles? I'll bet the number is quite high....
I know you were going for funny, but the fact is that there are plenty of men who'd love to have the ability to have some form of contraception that doesn't 1) reduce sensation to the point of meaninglessness and 2) rely on the integrity of women seeking to win the baby lottery.
It isn't the woman who has to risk the next twenty or more years of their financial lives if a pregnancy takes place.
--bornagainpenguin
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Put an ultrasound in the box.
Surely you've heard of denial? It's not just a river in Egypt.
Furck you bill gates!! stop vibrating my testicles! (im serious)
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DOnt erase my posts!
im serious, i DO feel vibrations in my testicles.
PLEASE NEED SD HELP!!!!
how can i kill this nano things? its evil, ugly, deviant, ....
shall i electrocute my balls? will heat destroy the vibrators? shall i "outvibrate" them?,,,, (lal)
no seriously, i can provide feedback, just reply to this, and dont erase it, i will reply.
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The Gates are eugenicist - daddy formed planned parenthood - abortion clinics anyone. The gates foundation "donates" lots for "immunizations" and birth control in Africa. Now they want to sterilize your nuts! You really want to have a procedure done that was funded by these people? It's like being jewish and haveing the Nazi's help you with family planning.
The Truth is a Virus!!!
I'm not sure which world you live in where $28 billion counts as "a few pennies" of his ~$60 billion fortune (do you give half of your wealth?), but maybe you could enlighten the audience as to exactly what Bill is doing behind the scenes that is so nefarious.
to promote good publicity
I'm sure by "good publicity" you really meant "world healthcare and education", it's really the same thing right?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
See, you -say- you're happy, but then you're not born again in Jesus... which is it?
Snarky comments aside, I don't think sex is the key to happiness. Sure, it's pleasurable, but the idea you can't be happy without it? That's quite a leap. There are many things which can make someone happy in life and many good friendships that someone can have which have nothing to do with sex at all. I know because, well, I've experienced them before.
Everyone (in the US at least) has the constitutional right to pursue happiness as they so choose. You find it hard to believe him, but then do you really know anything about him and what his life is really like?
Maybe you think you do. I, however, just don't buy that.
Oh, I've heard of it and I'm not in it. (:
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Actually from personal experience I'd say that sex is the first brick in the road on the way to hell. But then again I am pretty bitter.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
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What CAN'T the Sonic Screwdriver do?
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Please, where do I sign up to get my nuts zapped with unforeseen and unpredictable results? Sounds completely unappealing. With $100k to play with, looks like the researchers are gonna be balls deep if they don't figure something out.
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Bill Gates gave us the Blue Screen of Death. If you get this procedure, could you say you've been Blue Balled by Bill Gates?
...and we'll be able to sterilize whole ghettos at once! Awesome! Bye-bye welfare! Sure we'll stop winning gold medals in track-and-field events, but I think that's a small price to pay.
Given Gates track record I would not suggest letting him within 1,000,000 miles of your reproductive organs. This is about the dumbest idea I've heard. If you don't want to get pregnant, use oral sex during remotely fertile times. If you are willing to run the risk of a child, with all it's wonderful benefits, then use the fertility method carefully. But I would not use the pill, UID or ultrasound. Dumb to even think of it.
Microsoft is planning to kill off the Early Adopter Gene that is Apple's entire demographic!!!
An Invisible Entity of Vast Power whose existence must be taken on faith alone: Liberal Media
That's the entire fault with abstinence only arguments... there is only A) or B), without mentioning the C) through Z) which are all means of having safe enjoyable sex.
Don't get me wrong though, B) is cool if that's what you want. Less competition on my end, just don't follow those nutjobs with an agenda for removing options C) through Z).
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"OW MY BALLS!!"
In reality, it's effective against 95-99% of fluid born STI's, it's even highly effective aginst STI's that can be transmitted by skin contact like Herpes, but then again Herpes is the least of your concerns. If you actually read the article you quoted it cut the HIV transmission rate by 85%, this does not mean it's only 89% effective. The WHO found HIV transmission reductions decreased 95% with condom use.
Do not spread FUD to support your bad lifestyle choices, the risk of getting HIV from vaginal intercourse with an infected person in a low income country is 30 out of every 10,000 people, reduce that by 85% and it's 4.5 out of every 10,000, that's infected people, not average people. Compared this to sharing needles (67 out of 10,000 infected sources) and blood transfusions (9,000 out of 10,000 infected sources) and your risk is fairly low even not using a condom.
Personally I'll take the minuscule risk rather then try to deny my bodies natural tendencies, I've got more chances of dying from a freak tractor accident in the city then contracting HIV. It's the practice of abstinence in Africa that resulted in it's extreme HIV infection rates where SE Asia promoted condom use and have not suffered the predicted levels of HIV infections. Abstinence as a method of pregnancy prevention and STI prevention has been proven not to work.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
What a ripoff, at crabrevenge that would cost only £34.99 for the full tingle experience!
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I fail to understand why this article did not have the usual donotwant tag. =)
Let's put the genes back in Genesis.