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After decades of attempts to develop new birth control medications for men, scientists are more hopeful than ever. With new abortion restrictions, demand is growing, experts say.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean this is just "sperm suppression", of course it lowers the risk of pregnancy considerably, but not 100%. I'll still get my tubes snipped at this point. As a guy you simply don't have a lot of options if you want to be safe. Condoms and vasectomy, that's it. And condoms can fail too if you're unlucky.

As soon as the girl is pregnant all you can do is pray she doesn't decide to keep the kid :-/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I got a vasectomy and it was crazy easy. Had a meeting with my doc just so he could make sure I knew it was permanent, I asked if I could have something extra for the pain and dude was like "I can give you vallium is that alright?" Showed up day of, took like 30 mins and didn't feel a thing. Only thing was the smell of burning flesh was a little much but that was literally it.

My partner wants some form of permanent BC herself but literally no doctor will allow it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

With so many fucking people on the planet, you would think doctors would be stoked to sterilize as many people as they can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I think they are worried about liability, if I had to guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Threaten to do it yourself if they won't do it for you. Lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Or pray she cheated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Than what? Also, sample size?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nothing, and 222 men. Read the article.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

No. Late at night, in bed, long day, curious but not overly committed to finding out, and I don't want the bright white of Firefox loading in boost on my phone.

Accept that people are lazy, and stop moralizing when they lazily ask for specifics about new science. Not everyone is having your day or has your commitment.

It's a community, so I didn't have to this time... And I'm still not interested enough to verify your answers.

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You cappin skibidi fool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

summarizing articles is actually one of the practical uses of AI

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why do they always use the phrase "safe and effective". Almost as if they are programming people by repeating the same phrase everywhere....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Because those are the two most important things when it comes to birth control?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Lmao get out of here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There are things that are safe but not effective.

There are things that are effective but not safe.

There are things that are neither safe nor effective.

For example: There was some drug to stop morning sickness (im lazy and not going to look up the drug's name) that was really effective but absolutely turned out to not be safe as it caused all sorts of birth defects in the developing fetus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thalidomide/Contergan for those curious Thalidomide scandal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Nah, it's almost as if proving a treatment is "safe and effective" is the entire purpose of a phase ii clinical trial.

If you want pharmaceutical conspiracies to chase, follow the money. The point at which they are trying to "program" you is when the drug hits the market and commercials come out. It's not that these products are ineffective at this point, just that they will do just about anything to capitalize on them.

Pharmaceutical companies are by no means clean and trustworthy, but your conspiracy is literally just a description of marketing and advertising, which I agree is a plague upon our society.

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