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Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
A hormone injection has been shown to be a safe and effective method of contraception -- for men. U.S. researchers say the jab was almost 96% effective in tests on around 270 men who were using it, with four pregnancies among their partners. However, a relatively high number developed side effects, including acne and mood disorders... Because men constantly produce sperm, high levels of hormones are needed to reduce levels from the normal sperm count of over 15 million per milliliter to under one million/ml.
One professor pointed out that despite the side effects, "75% of the men who took part in the trial would be willing to use this method of contraception again."
One professor pointed out that despite the side effects, "75% of the men who took part in the trial would be willing to use this method of contraception again."
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Agreed.
Your average man tend to be physically capable of impregnating a woman from around puberty until death. The average woman is physically able to get pregnant ~25-50% of the month. So while a claimed success rate of of 96% sounds good, there is much to consider.
I'm sad to channel my abstinence only parents (who were right), but the only effective way of preventing pregnancy is abstinence.
Be it condoms, birth control, pulling out early, etc... there is always a failure rate, sometimes due to the mechanism, other times due to failure to use as proscribed... and even if there exists a male 'pill', there will still remain an overlap between failures between male & female birth control takers which will result in kids who grow up to be rather angry about the fact that neither parent wanted to have them, and that one or both had too much heart to abort them early on.
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So haven't we learned from the pill that fucking with a body's hormone levels has a certain tendency to lead to bad things and that it gets worse at higher levels?
Is the intention here to hit equality by making men as miserable as women?
Abstinence has a much higher failure rate than any other form of birth control.
Condoms aren't just for preventing pregnancy though, they prevent the spread of diseases. Even with a perfect contraceptive, you would still want to use a condom if you are not with a long term partner that you trust.
I've found that the 0.01mm thick ones are much better than the standard ones, but cost a fair bit more. Even they are far inferior to not using one though. Condoms reduce feeling for women too, I think they are just more willing to accept that because the potential consequences are much more severe and there is less social stigma if they don't reach orgasm.
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tend to argue that sexual orientation is genetically predetermined
No-one with an ounce of sense argues that. Because the argument is irrelevant.
Actually argument is relevant. If it is genetically predetermined, then legislation penalizing all who discriminate (and refuse to make wedding cakes for gay couples or whatever), are justified. If it is a free lifestyle choice, such discriminatory actions (however subjectively odious) comes under freedom of speech, religion, etc..