Male birth control gel is safe and effective, new trial findings show

[Jilly_in_VA]

Every morning for a year and a half, Logan Whitehead, 24, rubbed a clear gel on his shoulders, waited for it to dry, then went about his day as usual.

“It was basically like a hand sanitizer solution,” said Whitehead, who lives in Torrance, California. “Smelled like hand sanitizer, looked like hand sanitizer.”

The gel wasn’t hand sanitizer, though. It was a hormonal solution meant to block Whitehead’s sperm production. The gel was male birth control.

Until this past winter when his participation concluded, Whitehead was a volunteer in a phase 2 trial for the gel. The product — which contains testosterone and a synthetic hormone called Nestorone that reduces sperm production — is the most advanced among a crop of novel birth control options for men.

If the Food and Drug Administration approves the gel, Whitehead said he would definitely keep using it, especially after watching his partner struggle with available female birth control options.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mens-health/male-birth-control-gel-results-promising-rcna153349

Seriously? You think most men are gonna use this? Most of them won't even use condoms, FFS. And now incel RepubliKKKans anre trying to block OUR birth control!

[Turbineguy]

1. We need to control males of the republican variety

[Irish_Dem]

2. Questions:

Will men actually use the gel?

Will they take responsibility for birth control?

How will they feel about putting gel on their penis?

Will the gel prevent STD's?

Will women trust men to be using legit birth control?
After all it is women who suffer the consequences, difficulty getting abortions
and even pregnancy care. And can die or be jailed, or hounded.

[Igel]

12. You even read the OP?

rubbed a clear gel on his shoulders

My shoulder is quite distinct from my penis. One has an arm hanging from it and has bones, the other doesn't.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Hilarious. Thanks for the correction.

I have been skimming the articles coming out.
And I did not realize it was shoulder application.

Thank God. They are reporting pain at site of application.

That is funny, I assumed genitalia application.
Which would be a non starter for sure.

My big mistake.

Thanks also for the anatomy lesson.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. If the GQP has its way, no one will be able to buy contraceptives anyway.

[RussellCattle]

4. Good lord. Can a women be arrested for driving her husband to a vasectomy appointment?? How about....

……driving him home from one, when he’s not feeling his best and has been told not to drive and to take it easy for 24 hours. Or will (like Orwell) Mississip’ and Alabam’ outlaw vasectomies altogether and force men to go out of state? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

[Johonny]

5. Does the gel increase length

[albacore]

8. We could start that rumor...nt

[JanMichael]

6. Probably the same rate of use is the fifth vaccine for covid

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Are those hormones safe?

There is no long term data. What will he be like at 65 or 70?

Prostate cancers are influenced by hormones. At some stages treated by androgen blockade.

[albacore]

10. I guess people are gonna have to weigh the merits of taking hormones...Women have risks, too.

Those risks have to be weighed against pregnancy and birth.
Men will have to do the same.

Mayo says:
Scientific evidence suggests using birth control pills for longer periods of time increases your risk of some cancers, such as cervical cancer, but the risk declines after stopping use of birth control pills. Regarding breast cancer risk, the results are mixed.

[3catwoman3]

9. The article I read about this yesterday said the gel needed to be applied BETWEEN...

...the shoulder blades, and my first though was, "That's the hardest to reach area on the whole body! Why there? Why not the abdomen, the thighs, even the butt?"

[getagrip_already]

11. There are reasons for men to use it

Some men don't want to get a partner, either short or long term, unintentionally pregnant and then be burdened with child support.

Really.

No, it won't prevent an std, but neither will the pill or a diaphragm.