Birth Control Pill for Men — Really? December 2
The choice to go on the pill, which gave one the freedom to control one’s fertility and therefore prevent the occurrence of unplanned pregnancies, have long been available to women. What was once considered as “revolutionary” and caused debates everywhere is now considered as part and parcel of everyday living – for women, at least. But a research that was recently published in the December 2009 issue of the FASEB Journal may trigger the same “revolution,” this time for men.
The ability to control male fertility may be in the offing as scientists discovered how and where androgenic hormones work in the testis, knowledge that can pave the way for the development of “the pill” for men. The same knowledge can also lead to the development of treatment plans for those suffering from low sperm counts.
The study was co-authored by Michelle Welsh, PhD, from the Centre of Reproductive Biology at the Queen’s Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. It involved the use of two groups of mice, with one group being normal and the other having one gene missing from the peritubular myoid cells in the testis. This particular gene reportedly contained the codes for the androgen hormone receptor. It was observed that in the group of mice that did not have this gene, the production of sperm was significantly lowered, leading to infertility.
Whether the data and observations gathered through the study will indeed lead to the development of a birth control pill for men and whether this will have the same impact as the pill had for women in the 1960s we have no way of telling at this time. Still, the knowledge of which gene has a direct impact to sperm production will definitely be a lot of help towards ongoing research aimed at addressing male infertility.
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Sage99 Dec 3
The male pill and freedom for men -
The male pill is on it’s way, and will be with us in less than 5 years, if not from the US or Britain, then from China and India.
The pill for men will be the biggest step for freedom that men have ever had – freedom from the serfdom imposed by fatherhood. And if the present tyrannical feminist British women want their babies, they will have to offer a far better deal to men than at present.
The present marriage laws, and the infamous and secret ‘family courts’ will have to go, and quickly, and the dictatorial marriage and ‘common law’ marriage expectations drastically changed.
The constant demeaning of masculinity, particularly on TV in programs such as ‘One Foot in the Grave’, ‘Men Behaving Badly’ and the present ‘soaps’ in general, where men habitually behave in an infantile manner, and are presented in an appalling way, will have to be recognised as highly offensive to men, and dispensed with.
The most powerful of the British feminist weapons – the wild and malicious accusations of ‘rape’ and ‘child sex’ – will have to be brought back under civilized law where the accuser will be required to have hard evidence and be held responsible for their actions, both in the making of the accusation, and their part in the incident. The male sex drive is an extremely power force, and a woman who provokes it to the point where a man loses his self-control has only herself to blame. The accused will have to be considered innocent until – and if – proven guilty.
The female contraceptive pill in 1960s Britain gave British women direct power of sex availability for the first time in human history; and she has used this power – unwisely – to assert a position of dominance over men in which she has reduce them to a level of disadvantaged, cowed subservience – and infantile behaviour in an attempt to present themselves as children entitled to the protection of their maternal instinct – and to disadvantage them in every way possible.
The Mad Maternal Instinct, the all powerful evolution force in women that regards masculine Men as simple mating objects when in lust, and when not, as dangerous predators to be avoided or driven off and away from the precious family group.
Once the power of the 1960s female pill is counterbalanced by the male pill this yoke of female dominance will be flung off with surprising speed, and retribution and revenge on the British feminist female – and feminist male – will be wreaked, as some wiser and more sensible women have been aware of for some time.
Sage99
michaelR Dec 3
Very strange comment out of Sage99. I see the coming male contraceptive pill as yes, finally some control for men to be able to avoid unwanted pregancies and avoid huge expense of financially raising a child when a man is not ready to. I see this as a happy way to set his own course in life, not as control or revenge against feminism. I think women are just as scared about receiving an unwanted pregnancy, its a mistake that shouldn’t happen through carelessness, but it happens. Also I see the pill as a happy way to control the population boom, and slow the damage to our environment, slow global warming and slow the depletion of natural resources.
Sage99 Dec 4
Reply to MichaelR
‘Strange’ – in what way?
‘some control’? – complete control, Michael.
‘a happy way to set his own course in life’ – not really, but men can certainly negotiate a far better deal from their relationships with women and their position in life than they have at present.
‘women are just as scared about receiving an unwanted pregnancy’ – not really, as they have their pill. Thus they control the availability of sex, as was noted in the 1960s, but has since been forgotten.
‘Also I see the pill as a happy way to control the population boom, and slow the damage to our environment, slow global warming and slow the depletion of natural resources.’ How very true, I agree with you whole heartedly. The sooner we have it the better!