to think a male pill would be one of the best things that could happen to society?

Great option in a committed long temt
relationship, surely men in long term relationships have to trust their female partners that they are gaming contraceptives.

Because that's not the way OP couched it. People are responding to her suggestion that it could address the issue of poor or absent fathers.

Exactly! These comments are crazy, it’s an additional option on top of usual contraception that often “fails” how many women get pregnant “on the pill” loads, so it would be double the contraception. Maybe it’s women who don’t want a make contraception!!! But then slate men who don’t want to be around when there’s an accidental pregnancy saying they “shouldn’t have sex if they don’t want a kid” but that doesn’t apply to women? 🙄

I don’t get all the comments saying they wouldn’t trust a man, well plenty of women think they won’t get pregnant by using NO contraception at all that’s why there’s so many unplanned pregnancies!!

No chance !
No sane woman would believe them.

99.9% of the time women can avoid getting pregnant if they really want to.

I think there is a place for it. In the same way that women protect themselves against unwanted pregnancies, surely men want to too.

Yes, this. I think it would/could be fine in LTR but there’s no way you’d trust a man you barely knew to take responsibility for this. Ultimately the woman has to deal with the repercussions if a man lies or forgets to take it.

Why are so many not viewing this as an ADDITIONAL option for men???

Precisely. There are no circumstances under which I would leave this up to a man.

I think this would absolutely happen-which is why I think society would break down if it started happening on a mass scale. Men just don't want kids as much as women usually. This way he could agree to kids, get all the sex he wanted because she thinks they're trying for a baby and string her along for years.

I think a lot of women would hate it and society would probably break down. I'm all for it though, men should have as many options as women do. No one has to "trust" a man to take the pill it's about men having better options. So just keep taking your own contraception...then it's a win/win, if he turns out to really be on the pill like he said it's double protection! Almost zero chance of pregnancy.

Fuck it, put contraceptives in the water and give people support to conceive when they are perceived to be responsible enough (or on MN, be on £100k+).
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@ToKittyornottoKitty The way I see it is if a couple are definitely both done with having children then it is inherently selfish of the man not to opt for a vasectomy and expect his wife to continue with hormonal contraceptives right up until into her 50s. No hormonal contraceptives are without side effects/risk factors whereas a vasectomy involves neither of these.
After I'd had my third child (my husband's only bio child) he booked himself in for it as I was 40 and he was 45, so definitely done.
It would have been unfair on me to continue to stay on hormonal contraceptives or risk becoming pregnant again had he not made this choice.

Not a cats chance in a microwave I’d be confident my partner remembered to take it every day. He can’t find his keys in the morning let alone religiously take a tablet where the repercussions of not taking it are 99% not his to sort.

For a heterosexual young man (assuming he wants kids when he's older so the snip's not an option), there's no option but condoms, and we all know they don't always work. If I was a man, I would have been very worried about having sex as I wouldn't have wanted to be a teen father, but would have to rely on something that is only 97% effective. As a woman, if I got pregnant, I could choose to have an abortion, or have the baby adopted, so I was less worried about an accident happening.
So I think men would be thrilled!
And I'd be pleased that there were more contraceptive choices so if we women have medical issues that make the Pill etc difficult, our husbands can take responsibility.

I would never trust anyone to take precautions. I think the responsibility is on each individual in this case. It's too risky.

It's definitely good that this option is taken away from deceptive women.

A male pill would unequivocally be good for society. Anything that brings conception and contraception under individual control is.

Not sure how much it would change for women though? It's obviously mostly beneficial to men. Women wouldn't be taking it or relying on their partners to take it.

Men who don’t want more children can already access a vasectomy, why would their partners be any more unhappy about a pill?

I’d be giving them oxytocin in pill form

they’d still stop being deadbeat cunts but it might also dent their desperation to destroy the world and the people in it.

I think a lot of women strongly believe they should be the ones to decide when their family is complete. They wouldn't be happy about having the option of the "surprise" third baby taken away.

Yeah I would never put responsibilty for my own fertliyy into the hands of a man & I would never advise my daughters to do so either.

I think it's an okay idea, but it would only really be suited to the men who are already responsible. The feckless ones will still be feckless.
It would never have suited me. Ive always been in control of my own contraception and avoiding an unplanned pregnancy. I wouldn't want to put that in anyone else's hands.

How, in the name of God, do you think the male pill will make men more responsible? Maybe a tiny minority who are married and considering a family with their wife? The rest of the male population will carry on getting off their heads/ having one night stands without one iota of consideration as to the consequences

The US is working on rolling out a male contraceptive pill that is hormone-free and blocks sperm production. Apparently because it doesn’t utilise hormones it doesn’t have the side effects that other attempts at male contraceptive pills had. Seems like it would be a fantastic option for couples.