Oct 16th, 2008 | survey

Guys, would you take a birth control pill?


There's been considerable media attention surrounding a recent breakthrough in the development of a male birth-control pill (MBCP).


Fact of the matter is that it's still about 5 to 10 years away. It's taking forever for a men's pill to come to market.


What's taking so long?

Well, the issue is not as simple as it might first appear. Sure, there are still some technical hurdles to overcome, but the delay in developing a MBCP has definite political, economic and even discriminatory aspects to it.


Barriers to entry do in fact exist for the male pill—disempowering barriers that men should most certainly be aware of—including those set up by sexist women who belittle male reproductive accountability, unfair gender biases, self-serving feminists who refuse to relinquish reproductive power, and a risk averse Big Pharma.

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more:  http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2008/04/sorry-ladies-male-birth-control-pill-is.html




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Macbrock
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Florida, United States

posted Oct 18th, 2008 at 02:05 CDT

I think MBCP levels the playing field fairly and allows the male to be on equal terms in determining pregnancy.

Bmccue7
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Georgia, United States

posted Oct 17th, 2008 at 07:50 CDT

I try to stay away from pharmaceuticals in general. The industry has gone corrupt.

Ebenezer
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Fiji

posted Oct 17th, 2008 at 05:14 CDT

But the key is with us men not with women. If we show that we love every millimeters of our partner’s body and every thing about them without reserve and we can prove it beyond reasonable doubts in your lives towards them, including in loving sexual relationship, that partnership will grow and flourish into something truly long lasting. Notice what Angelina Jolie is reported to have said, “I think one of the life changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that is was the right thing to do …. I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to getting pregnant, I suddenly wanted to. Its one of those things you can’t explain.” ( see http://justjared.buzznet. com/2008/10/10/angelina-j olie-brad-pitt-better-wom an/ ).  After giving birth to the twins she said,"I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful, because of the journey it has taken and what it has created," she says. "He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier." (See http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20232272,00.html ) The whole matter of love and marriage revolves around mutual love, but the initiatives must come from us men. Indeed women can take the first step sometimes that does not give us the excuse to shirk our responsibilities to love our partners with all our hearts, and none of the problems you guys seem to have will ever happen generally speaking.  

Macbrock
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Florida, United States

posted Oct 17th, 2008 at 01:41 CDT

<clip>.Men are currently at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to the choice of reproduction -- but this is now set to change.As an example, according to the 2004 National Scruples and Lies Survey (which polled 5,000 women in the United Kingdom), 42% of women claimed they would lie about contraception in order to get pregnant, regardless of the wishes of their partners.Wow.Other evidence suggests that over 10% of children turn out not to be the offspring of the expected father when DNA tests are done, suggesting that many men obliviously help in the raising of children who are not actually theirs.This is no laughing matter. Child support rates are increasing, with some fathers giving their ex's as much as 15 to 25% of their take home pay per child. And it's widely known that fathers are second class citizens in the courts. For example, in some U.S. states a father cannot present DNA evidence to disprove paternity..<clip> 

 
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