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Still sounds dangerous to me. Injecting weird chemicals into your body.

Pretty much all of the men that I know would be happier with a form of male pill.

I'm ignoring the bunfight (my iPad autocorrected it to 'bum fight', haha!).

A long-term male contraceptive would be ideal for me and DP as I can't use any hormonal contraception whatsoever as I've had a hormone sensitive cancer. We're hopefully not done having babies but aren't allowed to try for a few years, so sterilisation/vasectomy is out. I can't have a copper coil, so the only contraceptives open to us are barrier methods, which is a bit shit really.

" I do wonder if it would ever be relased even if it was the "perfect birthcontrol" as it really wouldn't be much of a cash cow would it compared to bc pills"

I think it will: the Indian government are involved in this, and a cheap effective long term method of birth control is something they would very much like to see.

Yes, what BrideOfMucky said.

It sounds to me like much more research is needed with this method anyway.

No, I wouldn't Joyful, but any problems arsing form an unwanted pregnancy will be dealt with by you. Maybe your partner will be by your side but the brunt of it will be by you.

I can understand thefallen's kneejerk reaction to this - I feel the same about the coil, implant and injection! No bloody way. Will you judge me too OP?

This is an interesting idea but I would want to see proper clinical trials before I would consider it something worth discussing with DH.

The fallen didn't say he wouldn't take responsibility for contraception - maybe he already does, He jsut expressed an opinion about that particular method. Don't jump to conclusions Feministe

Those of you who wouldn't trust your partner to use contraception to protect you both from pregnancy - should you really be having sex with people like that?

I agree as a woman that I would want to take responsibility for contraception but I would also want my son, when he is sexually active, to also have the ability to take action to avoid fathering a child unless he wished to.

This is a feminist issue but it's also a human issue.

Feministe surely one man saying he would not do it would call for rude remarks. I agree you have come across as quite aggressive now.

It's great if it came out so guys could also control their own bc, however it does not mean I would necessarily give mine up.

As I am the one who would carry any child I was always much happier for me to be responsible for my own contraception. And I have regarded myself as a feminist since the 1970's!

there probably wasn't any need for the personal remarks but I am sort of with feministe. Perhaps I am wrong but thefallenninja didn't give the impression of having given a whole lot of weight to the many, many health risks and burdens women have to bear when it comes to contraception, pregnancy and childbirth. I do find that sort of attitude a bit galling to say the least. It's just a bit of a trite remark I think and I'm glad that someone saw fit to draw attention to it. We have a long way to go until men understand this is their burden to carry as well .

manatee I would agree with you in a new relationship, but then I would see condoms as necessary too then.

I would love it though now after being in a ltr with dh for a decade if he could take over. As hormonal bc doesn't work for me ( i mean it works, but emotionally it fucks me and makes me feel shit) and tbh condoms aren't great for either of us

But why play to the stereotype? And it just makes you sound rude and aggressive and not very bright tbh.

Hmm, I don't worry about stereotypes, and when I think of feminism in general, I see it as women who care about their place in society and are in fact usually very intelligent.

I see people who stereotype others as not very intelligent tbh,

I have a DS who would jump at the chance to be 100% sure he and his girlfriend wouldn't have an unwanted pregnancy. He understands only too well what the consequences are and that other methods of contraception can fail. The only real options open to him as a bloke who wants to control his fertility are condoms and the word no.

Personally in a relatively new relationship I would rather take responsibility for my own fertility than rely on someone else's word. And if i'm in a committed long-term relationship I am likely to be planning ahead and thinking about children, so want something that is reversible without having to rinse Evo-Stik out of my husband's man-sausage.

Think I'll stick with my IUD, thanks

There was also a male injection I remember but that never caught on .

The only thing I would worry about is if it increases the chance of testicular cancer (no reason to suspect it does but that came to my mind) - has there been enough research/time in use to rule that sort of thing out?

But why play to the stereotype?
And it just makes you sound rude and aggressive and not very bright tbh.
Which is a pity when you've raised such an interesting topic.

No I said if it were

yes, meditrina that's true. I do wonder if it would ever be relased even if it was the "perfect birthcontrol" as it really wouldn't be much of a cash cow would it compared to bc pills

"not willing to take on the risk of a poke to the balls if it were proved safe that he isn't saying much for himself or his feelings for his partner"

It hasn't yet been proved safe.

The reversibility in humans needs to be more fully established too.