Male birth control pill seems to be coming in the near future. Do feminists seriously have a problem with this?

2010-05-17T06:12:54+00:00

Awesome for relationships where the woman have horrible sideeffects and can't use most contraceptives. Awesome for the paranoid people that want all the safety they can get. Awesome for men that want to feel they have control. I've waited for this one since I started with sex :D

kloo2yoo · 2010-05-17T02:10:21+00:00

Frankly, how feminists feel about about contraceptives should be absofuckinglutely irrelevant. It's time to free men from having to trust women to take their pills.

2010-05-17T02:50:31+00:00

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rhllor · 2010-05-17T06:10:30+00:00

Am I the only one who finds it seriously disturbing that this submission (and the comments) is more concerned on what one female wrote (or didn't write, upon reading some comments) rather than what the MR community thinks about this development? Or did I misunderstand the purpose of this community, and that it is required to include some sort of female-bashing to my comments so I won't get downvoted?

I think this is awesome, if it comes through. They should sell it in combo packages (well, maybe only good for couples and not one night stands), Him and Her tablets. Double the protection and would still be effective even if one of them forgets to take a pill one day, and both shoulders the responsibility of contraception. One-way contraception is, conceptually, unfair to both men (who have been lied to about taking pills by some sneaky bitch) and women (who shoulders the responsibility of taking pills while the guy just waits for fuck time). It's fucking win-win for both.

AtheismFTW · 2010-05-17T03:15:58+00:00

Did I miss the part about feminists objecting? Where are they? A bigger problem seems to be drug companies thinking it is not commercially viable.

TDenson · 2010-05-17T11:38:37+00:00

My wife's uncle was in a relationship with a pretty horrible woman, he knew it wasn't going to last long and he wasn't taking it very seriously. She had insisted she was using the pill and not to bother with condoms. She then told him she was pregnant and she was keeping it. Turns out she had forgotten to take her pill.....for a couple of months. The closest thing that woman has done to work since then is buying some stuff at fleamarkets and selling it on ebay for a profit. This man's life has been completely ripped apart by the deception of one lazy cunt who saw him as an honest guy who wouldn't ditch his kid and took him for a ride.

That's why men should get the pill. If women don't want to be mothers, they have their pill, we should have ours.

unicornshoes · 2010-05-17T04:45:37+00:00

Only in the last sentence does the writer, and only the writer, make a comment about having a problem with it, "It's hard to imagine women handing that responsibility over to a man, who might forget to take his Pill or change his patch. Shudder."

That's one woman's opinion.

Your title is misleading.

2010-05-17T21:39:22+00:00

I'm a female invading here, and linking this to my boyfriend, Oh my goodness a male birth control pill would be AMAZING! I can't take birth control pills because they make me vomit every morning as if I'm pregnant... so annoying! Hopefully if these do come out, he wont' have a negative reaction to them.

catlebrity · 2010-05-17T02:07:26+00:00

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2010-05-17T02:36:00+00:00

I don't think anyone has a problem with it. Saying that you would still want to practice some other form of contraception is a long way from saying that the male pill is bad and shouldn't exist.

rhllor · 2010-05-17T03:27:59+00:00

I see the same problem, but reversed.

Right now:

Male: You're on the pill, right?

Female: Yeah, I am. (Ha ha fooled ya)

With male pills:

Female: You're on the pill, right?

Male: Yeah I am. (Who cares I just wanna cum)

catlebrity · 2010-05-17T06:15:31+00:00

No.

Fauropitotto · 2010-05-17T13:20:44+00:00

As a practical matter, I think this is moot:

As a medical student, I really wouldn't bet on a male birth control pill.. And I almost certainly wouldn't take one anytime soon if it were offered (not for a long, long time after it came out).

Female birth control pills work because females have a built-in "off" switch for their reproductive system: pregnancy (you don't want to get pregnant while you're pregnant, that would be bad). Birth control pills mess with hormonal levels to either stop ovulation or stop implantation.

Males, however, do not have an off switch. You can't just boost some hormone or shut off another to make a man sterile. The closest you could get is giving a man exogenous testosterone ('roids), but that would not only be extremely unreliable, but also [obviously] dangerous. You could also mess with the pituitary hormones (it would likely be a shot and not a pill), but the result would be the same: unreliability and/or horrible side effects.

That ultrasound sterilization (still theoretical) is probably the best temporary contraception for men besides condoms.

kloo2yoo · 2010-05-17T03:11:22+00:00

ymmv. but if you want to try something now, think about heat.

http://www.newmalecontraception.org/heat.htm

2010-05-17T04:09:29+00:00

They have a problem with anything taht gives men reproductive power, thats just how most of them are.

justaverage · 2010-05-17T02:12:41+00:00

And once again we are shown that feminism isn't about the empowerment of women, but is more about the degradation of men.

men can't gestate babies. Until they can, it's hard to imagine women handing that responsibility over to a man, who might forget to take his Pill or change his patch. Shudder.

True, we can't gestate babies. But we CAN be milked for child support for 18 years. Here's something that might come as a shock to you miss Wildman. We don't want you to get pregnant just as much as you don't want to.

Furthermore, I don't trust a woman, who in the heat of the moment says "Its OK, I'm on the pill". No one should trust anyone who makes such a claim. But give men some type of option other than condoms and the withdrawal method. Hell, if it were an option, I would love to see myself and my partner to both be on the pill at the same time. Withdrawal method on top of that for good measure even.

In the end, I suppose it doesn't matter much. I suspect that birth control isn't much of an issue for miss Wildman so long as she decides to keep that hairdo...

galimi · 2010-05-17T06:44:44+00:00

Wouldn't it be funny if the opposite sexes both taking birth control had some kind of nullification effect and always created some wicked looking offspring, with like, hooves and shit? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

VoodooIdol · 2010-05-19T15:23:31+00:00

Man, that started off great and ended with "Men are stupid and can't remember to take their medicine."

Fuck off.

rmbarnes · 2010-05-17T12:37:29+00:00

Trying to ban prostitution, porn, strip joints. Preemptively trying to ban sex dolls. Now this. It seems obvious to me that one of the main goals of feminism is to control the supply of sex and have as much control of reproduction as possible.

2010-05-17T10:06:35+00:00

Of course they have a problem...because they no longer have the opportunity to say "oops I forgot to take my pill...for the last 2 months". No longer will men be trapped in shitty relationships because some dumb twat thought the only way to hold on to a man was to trick him into it.

Title	Male birth control pill seems to be coming in the near future. Do feminists seriously have a problem with this?
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Date	May 17, 2010 1:46 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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