Why isn't there a birth control pill for Men? | Healthcare triage

Fuzzy_Department2799 · 2023-11-02T00:15:49+00:00

Men are always fertile, and that's hard to control without blocking the evacuation path. Female fertility requires hormonal changes that are much easier to manipulate.

SentientRock209 · 2023-11-01T23:21:38+00:00

The video above dives into some of the challenges in developing and administering experimental drugs that can be used as birth control options for men as the main ones available to men are condoms and vasectomies which isn't a lot. From the video summary on youtube:

"Condoms and vasectomies remain pretty much the extent of birth control options for people who produce sperm, and both have problems. So why is almost all hormonal birth control aimed at those with ovaries? There have been some successes targeting the biological feedback process for hormones that regulate new sperm production, but progress is slow."

lolthankstinder · 2023-11-02T01:16:48+00:00

You also have to think about the target audience of male birth control. Modern dating is extremely fast-paced and fleeting and many women will reject you for lack of a spark after just one date. Guys that aren't having consistent sex aren't going to want to take male birth control. So, BAM you just cut out an enormous chunk of the male population right there. Many women, on the other hand, still take birth control to mitigate periods regardless of their sexual activity.

If you're a patriarchal stud having lots of sex with random women, you're probably going to want to wear a condom anyways to avoid STDs. There's not much incentive for the guys having tons of hookups to use male birth control if it also doesn't prevent STDs. So, BAM, you just cut out another chunk of the potential target audience.

If you already have kids you can just get a vasectomy. Male birth control would need to have a very convenient administration route and comparably low / lower side effects and risks to compete with that. Why might oral male birth control options damage your liver you ask? Well, if they aren't hormonally/mechanically stopping your sperm production, they're probably fucking with you on a cellular level. So, again, BAM, there's goes another chunk.

Okay so let's suppose you're a young guy miraculously able to get into a sexually active relationship with an attractive woman who isn't already on birth control and you want to be able to have sex without a condom without worrying about pregnancy. Well, one of the main side effects of male hormonal birth control is... loss of desire to have sex lol. Non-hormonal female birth control has one egg to stop, but non-hormonal male birth control has millions of sperm to stop and trillions of other cells that don't need to be killed.

_throawayplop_ · 2023-11-02T18:48:14+00:00

Because men don't get pregnant. So the alternative isn't between taking a pill everyday with all the side effects Vs getting pregnant and all the side effects but between taking a pills and all the side effects Vs becoming a father.

Horror-Chocolate-998 · 2023-11-07T22:45:11+00:00

It probably has to do with maintaining a minimum reproduction rate.

If a reliable, no side-effect birth control option, that was approximately as easy to use or stop using as female options, existed for men, pregnancy rates would nose dive hard.

It would wildly upend conventional ideas about parenting, partner seeking, family roles and custody rights.

Wild guess: The FDA has half a dozen high quality requests for reviews of such products, that it has found ways to put on ice.

biopsia · 2023-11-02T12:32:38+00:00

Because if a man says "don't worry, I'm on the pill" she won't believe him and still demand him to put on a condom.

savethebros · 2023-11-02T00:23:08+00:00

less demand

Title	Why isn't there a birth control pill for Men? \| Healthcare triage
Author	SentientRock209
Upvotes	32
Comments	14
Date	November 1, 2023 11:21 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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