Sunday, Aug. 03, 2008
The Long Wait for Male Birth Control
By Adam Goodman
Just a few years ago, the new male contraceptive seemed like an inevitable reality. Major pharmaceutical companies like Wyeth, Schering and Organon were pumping millions into hormonal birth-control development programs for men, and researchers were breathlessly promising imminent production.But in 2008, there's still no birth control for men. What happened? In a word: money. With the cost of new-drug development hovering in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the pharmaceutical industry decided there wasn't enough of a market to make male hormonal contraceptives worthwhile. The German drug giant Schering halted its development program in 2006 (after its high-profile acquisition by Bayer), and other drug companies quickly followed suit, abandoning several projects that were — at least by the researchers' accounts — on the verge of success.
RJEsq said...
You can make this point...."Why not title the piece "The Inability To Market Male Birth Control To Men"....without suggesting that folks who use birth control are mentally ill.
Denmark Vesey said ...
Sista Robyn,
Can a man who voluntarily ingests a poison that destroys his own semen, really be considered sane?
9 comments:
What do you expect?
It's the REAL terrorists at work again.
TIME is Zionist porn.
And Adam Goodman is a feminist Republican Jew who is a consultant to the National Women’s Committee of the Republican Jewish Coalition - who puts out anti-Obama/Islamic/(real)Semitic ads like this:
BOMB IRAN!
Like I said, where there's rotten floorbeams, you know there's termites... A crafty Jew is easily-recognized by the bitemarks he leaves in his host society.
Male birth control is already out there somewhere or we wouldn't be seeing so many ridiculous commercials for pills that cure "E.D."
It's in the food, the water, the blood pressure drugs, etc. They're just making it official now.
DV
Are you against all forms of contraception are just the pill?
Personally, I'm not interested in taking the pill, but I'm just curious if you have a problem with anything that prevents a man from reproducing like condoms or a vascetomy.
Big Man,
I'm not against contraceptive. I am not against "the pill".
I'm against conformity. I am against the okey doke.
I submit that any organism that voluntarily hinders it's ability to produce is demonstrating signs of mental illness.
Whether that hindrance is chemical like the pill, mechanical like an IUD or psychological like rejecting the opposite sex in favor of mutual masturbation with one's own sex - it is evidence of an organism not behaving in it's own interest.
ergo. Mental illness.
You see Big Man, this piece in Time is not about Birth Control. It's about the presentation of consequence free sex as an assumed "Good".
Peep the title:
... "The LONG WAIT FOR MALE BIRTH CONTROL" ...
Let me ask Bra Big Man. Have you been waiting? Who has been waiting? None of my boys have ever said to me ... "Man. DV! I can't wait till they make a pill that will allow me to shoot blanks!!"
Why not title the piece "The Inability To Market Male Birth Control To Men" ...
You can make this point...."Why not title the piece "The Inability To Market Male Birth Control To Men"....without suggesting that folks who use birth control are mentally ill.
Oh, I agree with you that I have never heard any of my homies wondering when we could get a male birth control pill. And I agree with you about this story "creating" a buzz instead of reporting on an actual event.
I was just curious about whether you were against contraception. You answered that for me, although you did it indirectly.
"Can a man who voluntarily ingests a poison that destroys his own semen, really be considered sane?"
at least more sane than the man that voluntarily injects his own semen into a woman and then:
1) all but literally forces her to have an abortion
2) attempts to (or succeeds at) physically harm her out of fear of paying more child support for 'anotha kid'
and/or
3) walks away altogether
Yeah, I'd say he's sane.
In fact I know many brothers who have explicit plans for elective vasectomy. Specifically for the reason that they do not wish to have any more children. I can't say I would label that behavior as insane. I've considered it myself, but my problem is the permanence of it. Suppose my situation changes and I decide I want another child? This pill might be the answer to that quandary.
I do agree that there are instances where a person does not wish to reproduce themselves that can properly be described as insanity. I also agree that you have to look deeper for the motivation that Time or any other major media outlet might have for putting that story on the front page. DV's position is reasonable in that regard.
I love my balls too much to take any pill that will knowingly affect them. Me and my balls have an understanding: I take care of them; they give me sons.
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