…in mice, after massive, cancer-causing doses, probably.
I’m tired of hearing about this shit. Put it to market or stop talking about it.
Yeah just push it out to public. Just like they did with women’s contraceptives.
This kind of news is an annual event at this point.
I just use my personality. Seems simpler.
The new stuff is reversible
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I thought it was your looks?
Recently, the smell.
The Complete Package.
Ooo that’s rare.
In my case it is even easier. I’m short, so I am invisible to women.
Dude I am an ogre who looks borderline homeless and when the Goodwill cashier saw my points balance her eyes lit up and said “you’re rich” and she was chatty Cathy for the whole transaction.
Don’t be short, be rich!
Not if you’re also loooong.
I have a different solution, its called being a transbian :3
That’s great but I’ve been seeing articles like this for decades so I’ll believe it when there’s an actual working product you can actually get
Scientists at Cornell University
may be
closing in
Right? Im scheduled for a vasectomy in a month, this ain’t stopping me.
Best $50 I’ve ever spent. Quick procedure, quick recovery with an excuse to not do anything for a couple days.
50$??? Where do you live? Can I live there?
It’s free and covered by universal healthcare here in Canada. You just have to ask for one.
That shit is copay. Can’t even get a cat neutered for $50.
Midwest US, but it’s really down to the insurance policy. This particular procedure was 100% covered other than copay. Copay was usually $50, but for specialties it was $75. If you have insurance, definitely check your policy. A lot of times vasectomy is explicitly called out.
Never regretted it myself, but technically quite a good chance of reversibility (85+%) and 95+% chance of viable artificial insemination if things change.
Also minimal, short lived discomfort.
It’s considered permanent though. Shouldn’t go ahead under view it can be reversed. Saying that, the piece of mind it brings is wonderful.
Also, compare those to the near certain side effects of female contraception, which is just taken as the natural state of affairs.
Valid, those are pretty good odds though, mind you I looked it up decades ago and the reversal was a pretty involved piece of expensive microsurgery.
Testosterone is a fairly effective male contraceptive agent, but most people can’t get over the side effect of ball shrinkage.
Hmm. And what “debuffs” (for a lack of a better term, lol) can a male experience from this side effect?
Other than the psychological trauma of having smaller balls, there isn’t much in terms of permanent damage. Men on fitness forums claim their testosterone permanently crashes, but this demographic tends towards hypochondria and body dysmorphia. Although this particular side effect can be prevented with HCG injections, this would restore fertility.
They’re progressing slowly, but it’s obvious that they don’t want a bad launch so they’re all waiting until they have something that works and is safe enough and safety only comes from having people take it then see if it works after being reversed or ended years later.
Easier to target one egg cell than millions of sperm germ cells.
Kinda hard to make male contraceptives. Women are naturally infertile for most of the time not spent actively ovulating. They are permanently infertile during pregnancy, real or synthetic. But men? We’re always churning out swimmers. When that process stops, something has gone very wrong.
So, artificially induce a naturally occurring phenomenon vs artificially terminate a constant mechanism.
Well not with that attitude!
Didn’t they figure that out with Vasalgel?
If it did, you’d think it would be promoted, like at all. I never hear about it.
Summary:
Scientists at Cornell University may be closing in on the long-sought “holy grail” of male contraception: a safe, reversible, nonhormonal method that completely halts sperm production. In a breakthrough mouse study, researchers used a compound called JQ1 to temporarily shut down meiosis—the critical process that produces sperm—without causing lasting harm. After treatment stopped, sperm production bounced back, fertility returned, and the animals produced healthy offspring.
They have no real idea what harm it may cause. Sterilizing people with an unknown method and promising it’s ‘reversible’ is capitalist propaganda.
We need this just because Republicans would never tell a straight white man what to do with his body…
And any birth control is better than none, for the periods we can’t have all methods.
this is way less reversible than they claim
They’ve had something similar available for years. It’s a small plastic square about the size of a lego brick. You put it in your shoe and it makes you limp
Why does the egg look like that??
If the figure out how to have dry orgasms again, that would be dope
Excellent. Now all those “but I can’t get a vasectomy” guys have another option. Beyond time to put the onus for not reproducing on the male side of the equation.
Can’t get a vasectomy if you plan having kids.
But actual issue is no, we do not have another option, because this study has been done on mice, so even if it would actually happen it would take easily 10 years before it would go to market.
What’s worse is that it won’t happen. Google RISUG, Smart RISUG, Vasalgel and Plan A.
These are simple polymers that are injected into the vas deferens of a man and stay there for years up to decades, making the man sterile. It’s easily reversible, has no side effects and just disables fertility. And it’s been blocked by pharma companies since the 70s, because it would cost them massive amounts of money if women wouldn’t need to pay for expensive and short-lasting contraception methods.
The situation that only women have access to decent methods of contraception sucks, and the most infuriating part is that it doesn’t have to be, but because it would cost some rich assholes money, they purposely keep the situation as is.
Believe me, most men would much prefer to have access to good methods of contraception, but we are essentially stuck at the same level since the 1920s.
