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Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
submitted 3 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Original article:
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl2688

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Awesome!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Safe, cheap, permanent but trivially reversible male birth control was invented in 1979 and has yet to be approved for US sale.

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Can you share more info?

[–] humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder of the core problem: medical treatments are all balanced against the risk of what it counteracts.

Undergoing physical and chemical changes to grow another creature inside you and have it damage everything on the way out is pretty risky. Female birth control only has to be less risky than that.

A male has zero physiological risk from impregnating someone. Therefore, anything except a miracle drug with high efficacy and almost zero side effects is going to stall at the trial stage.

On another note, that speaks to how safe and effective vasectomies are.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Written by someone who has never had to pay child support.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah zero psychological risk is a bit of an overstatement. Zero physical maybe, but there's definitely psychological risks, and I'm not even thinking about child support

Edit: I can't read, it says physiological and I'm just deficient in the reading

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They said Physiological not Psychological. There's a considerable difference between those two words.

[–] axus@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The letters I and C?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I meant their meanings, rather than their spellings lol.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will never ever trust this. Not with how gender/maleness is treated these days. What 'they' consider safe can be entirely political and ideology-based, rather than a biological fact.

[–] Luccus@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

Who's "they"?

If it's Urologists, like, those are the experts. If it's someone on Twitter, they don't matter. If it's women as a whole… oh, boy. Dude. If it's "the jews", OH. BOY. DUDE. HOW EVEN?

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Vasectomy gang 😎😎✂️✂️ All juice no seeds

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How was the recovery process? I keep meaning to do it (we're done having kids), but we keep having trips or whatever, so excuses pile up.

How soon could I be back doing active things? I have young kids, so "active" to me means roughhousing with the kids and whatnot.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Make sure you get your own pain medication ahead of time. Mine was apparently worse than the other replies, and the doctor being stingy about meds made it needlessly terrible.

No I don't otherwise do opiates. Doctors are just stingy because of the people who are on opiates.

[–] storcholus@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

I did the thing on ibuprofen. Your guys get serious pain medication for that?

[–] storcholus@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

The worst was over in a couple of days but for the next three months it stuff there was a slight discomfort in some situations