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Should Men Care That Male Birth Control Options Are Languishing?

March 28, 2008 05:49 PM ET | Adam Voiland | Permanent Link | Print

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The Cost Conundrum

Oh, and here's how to start some pressure:

http://malecontraceptives.org/activism.php

Plenty of addresses to contact.

In the meantime, I have yet to see even an online petition to send to Congress (or elsewhere), demanding more funding for male BC.

The Cost Conundrum

>It has become clear to humanity that the costs of developing safe and effective birth >control far outweigh the costs of more people on this planet.

I trust you really meant "benefits" not "costs"?

Sadly, far too many people - well-fed and educated or not - still DON'T see any benefits to birth control.

The Cost Conundrum

>First, I don't think it's fair to say that "men don't want their genitals messed with".

>Blanket statements like that make all men look lazy and foolish.

Agreed, but doctors, generally, don't talk like that for nothing these days, since we Americans don't hang on their every word the way we used to.

And, as I implied, if men really want new methods of male BC sooner rather than later, they're going to have to do more to convince doctors (and pharmaceutical companies and their investors) of that fact than to talk "loudly" online. We all know the saying "talk is cheap." The male would-be consumer has to make himself a lot more visible (as in, doing radio/TV interviews and giving his real name, unlike in online chats) - and has to be willing to put his money where his mouth is. RISUG and the IVD already exist, and both are nonhormonal, so it looks to me as though the only thing now missing is "the social pressure." That, of course, includes money out of MANY individuals' pockets.

The Cost Conundrum

First, I don't think it's fair to say that "men don't want their genitals messed with".

Blanket statements like that make all men look lazy and foolish. The truth is development of these things will occur for men in the same way that they occurred for women: a combination of new drugs available and social pressure.

Women in the past were the ones solely responsible for children born out of wedlock; there was no such thing as unlimited child support and "deadbeat dads". Women pushed for the pill so that they could have the same sexual freedoms as men.

Now the tables are turned, and men want the same sexual freedoms that women enjoy today. 30 years ago, doctors and "professionals" made the same claims about women that they now make about men with regard to birth control, and they are as false today as they were then.

Regarding the issues of profitability and cost, one of the main reasons that women's birth control pills entered the market so easily was that the discovery of the base for the drug happened completely by accident; the base of the pill is a compound modified form of a naturally occurring plant substance discovered by a doctor studying herbal and "primitive" medicines with a tribe the in the Amazon rain forest. Therefor, there were virtually no real development costs, only costs to synthesize and refine. Unfortunately for men, there has been no such luck in a discovery.

It has become clear to humanity that the costs of developing safe and effective birth control far outweigh the costs of more people on this planet. The sooner everyone has access to options, the easier it will be for all of us.

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