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Reversible Male Contraception With Gold Nanorods

Posted by timothy on from the pickup-lines-suggest-themselves dept.

MTorrice writes "Men's options for birth control have significant downsides: Condoms are not as effective as hormonal methods for women, and vasectomies require surgery and are irreversible. Doctors and scientists have for decades searched for more effective and desirable male contraception techniques. Researchers in China now propose a nonsurgical, reversible, and low-cost method. They show that infrared laser light heats up gold nanorods injected into mice testes, leading to reduced fertility (abstract) in the animals."

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  1. Non-surgical by OptimalCynic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It might be non-surgical but a needle in the nads followed up by laser heating isn't my idea of fun.

    1. Re:Non-surgical by Grisstle · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not to mention "decreased fertility" I don't want to decrease my fertility, I want to temporarily eliminate my fertility.

  2. Re:Balls of gold! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally! I don't have to trust that ding-bat I picked up to remember to take her pill!

    You'd also better hope that she doesn't have Aids or Herpes or anti biotic resistant Syphilis or ....