Scientists at Cornell University may be closing in on the long-sought “holy grail” of male contraception: a safe, reversible, nonhormonal method that completely halts sperm production. In a breakthrough mouse study, researchers used a compound called JQ1 to temporarily shut down meiosis—the critical process that produces sperm—without causing lasting harm. After treatment stopped, sperm production bounced back, fertility returned, and the animals produced healthy offspring.
Excellent. Now all those “but I can’t get a vasectomy” guys have another option. Beyond time to put the onus for not reproducing on the male side of the equation.
Can’t get a vasectomy if you plan having kids.
But actual issue is no, we do not have another option, because this study has been done on mice, so even if it would actually happen it would take easily 10 years before it would go to market.
What’s worse is that it won’t happen. Google RISUG, Smart RISUG, Vasalgel and Plan A.
These are simple polymers that are injected into the vas deferens of a man and stay there for years up to decades, making the man sterile. It’s easily reversible, has no side effects and just disables fertility. And it’s been blocked by pharma companies since the 70s, because it would cost them massive amounts of money if women wouldn’t need to pay for expensive and short-lasting contraception methods.
The situation that only women have access to decent methods of contraception sucks, and the most infuriating part is that it doesn’t have to be, but because it would cost some rich assholes money, they purposely keep the situation as is.
Believe me, most men would much prefer to have access to good methods of contraception, but we are essentially stuck at the same level since the 1920s.
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Yeah, I’d say having a study participant trying to commit suicide because of the birth control is kinda severe.
But also look at who cancelled the study. Was it the participants? Was it the potential customers? Or was it a company that was afraid of lawsuits?
I don’t like you trying to blame “the men” because some suits pulled the plug because they feared losing money.
The thing with the vasalgel/RISUG thing is that there aren’t any reported side effects and it still was cancelled.
If you look at actual research, there’s actually quite a demand for novel male contraception methods:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001078242400101X
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According to the head of urology for a very large research hospital here, they’ve never been reversible (after a few months, max) and he was very clear about that before he started with the laser.
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The doctor that did mine; made sure that I knew that it whilst it was theoretically reversible; it is a major surgery vs a minor one to get it done, and the success rate is very low ~20%. So best consider a vasectomy as permanent and irreversible.
Because people are fucking stupid, and even stupider people prey on them en masse. Simple as.
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Motivation? To be fair, I have no idea beyond conjecture, though the effects certainly play nice with their other methods of misinformation and target results: distraction, uncertainty, decay of trust, perforation of hope, community attrition, isolation, division, et al.
If no one’s trustworthy, how can a rebellion even spark much less foment effectively? If the primary source of this oppression is obfuscated to look like scores of minor psychopaths instead, how will any resistance unify itself?
Keeping us dumb, testy, and drained makes bawbags of us all. 🤌🏼