Scientists develop male birth control pill

[Shine]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15937201/

When it comes to birth control, it may finally be the guy's turn.

British scientists are developing a male birth control pill that could put a smile on the faces of a lot of women, according to a report by NBC's Dawn Friesen on "Today" Tuesday. The hormone-free pill, which prevents the ejaculation of sperm, could be on the market in five years.



hmmm...this could get interesting...

[Mythsaje]

1. I actually think the last line of the article is hilarious...

"The pill would not prevent sexually transmitted diseases, she said."

Really? No shit?

I KNOW there are people out there that are that ignorant or stupid, but seriously...

It's this kind of stuff that makes me want to scream.

[Shine]

3. Yeah, I know. Pretty funny, huh?

what I thought was particularly amusing was the line, "within half a day the sperm is on the move again."

uh oh....LOOK OUT!! :scared:


:rofl: that just cracked me up.

[Big Kahuna]

2. Yikes!

an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids! :scared:

[Glorfindel]

4. Well, look on the bright side

Now we can close all those homes for unwed fathers that are cluttering up the landscape.
:rofl:

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. wait, so...um

it prevents the production of sperm, or the ejaculation of sperm...or both?

Do the sperm get sucked back into the testes?

Do they immediately go to sperm heaven upon production?

What's the deal?

[ThomCat]

6. Would you trust your boyfriend to take it regularly?

I think a lot of women would ask their boyfriends to be on this pill, but still take their own.

[Shine]

7. I agree.

it seems rather risky to put it all on the man when it's the woman's body that has to deal with the pregnancy.

hmmm...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. You read my mind.

And maybe that's best. There is no 100% effective contraceptive; so why shouldn't everyone be responsible?

[laconicsax]

9. If this works the way it says it does,

it could potentially put users at increased risk for prostate cancer, assuming this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm is accurate.

[anotherdrew]

10. worse than useless unless it can be tested to proove someone's really on it quickly

otherwise, welcome to the new excuse why it's really "ok"

[Javaman]

11. But they failed to include the other pill that has to go with this one...

The pill that makes the guy remember to take it. LOL

[The2ndWheel]

12. Pills, pills, and more pills

We hold these pills to be self-evident, that all pills are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Pill, Pillity and the pursuit of Pilliness. — That to secure these pills, Governments are instituted among Institutions, deriving their just powers from the consent of the pilled, — That whenever any Form of nature becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Pill to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Nature, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Pillty and Pilliness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Pills long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Non-pillism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such nature, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Corporations; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Nature. The history of the present King of Pillmerica is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Humans. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Akoto]

13. There's no delicate way to ask this, so ...

Does the pill just stop sperm from joining with the fluids of the ejaculate, or does it stop the man from ejaculating altogether?

If it's the latter, I'd think that this would cause some health concerns, as ejaculation cleans out the prostate (among other functions). Not to mention, I'd imagine it would have to feel kind of ... Um, odd.

[Shine]

14. I wondered the exact same thing, Akoto.

what happens to the sperm?? :shrug: enquiring minds want to know.....:D

[MountainLaurel]

16. If I'm correct

The same thing happens when you don't spill your seed for a certain amount of time: They are reabsorbed in the testes.

[Lost-in-FL]

15. 60 years too late...

The world STILL have to deal with *