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ismnotwasm

(41,963 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 04:55 PM Sep 2014

Why male birth control is a million disasters waiting to happen

Read the comments. While I have sympathy for this gentleman, I don't think he understands the whole picture. Ahem.


He prescribed a medicine to help me with my symptoms. I can't remember the name, but I know it belonged to a class of medicines called Alpha Blockers.

“One thing about this medicine,” the doctor said as he typed the prescription into the computer. “There's a chance it can cause retrograde ejaculation.”

“Um...what?” I asked. I obviously knew what ejaculation meant but “retrograde” could've meant anything.

“Dry orgasms. No seminal fluid,” he said. In more specific terms, retrograde ejaculation is when semen gets sent into the bladder rather than out into a sock, condom, or, if you're lucky, a crevasse belonging to your significant other.

I was weirded out but he said there was only a chance, right? So that meant there was a chance it didn't cause retrograde ejaculation.

This pathetic bit of self delusion lasted until my first jerk-off session on the medicine. I felt the familiar build-up of pleasure and tension (I call it plension) and then... nothing. Not only was there no semen, there was no electric rush, no hip-bucking, and no release.


http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/problem-with-male-birth-control/?fbdd
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Why male birth control is a million disasters waiting to happen (Original Post) ismnotwasm Sep 2014 OP
Yeah, he's missed the point and is still clueless about his own anatomy Warpy Sep 2014 #1
all hail the sacred sperm Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2014 #2
So don't take alpha blockers. No need to panic about this. nomorenomore08 Sep 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Sep 2014 #4

Warpy

(111,128 posts)
1. Yeah, he's missed the point and is still clueless about his own anatomy
Sun Sep 14, 2014, 05:13 PM
Sep 2014

The first comment tried to set him straight on that accord but since it's a woman, he's not going to believe a word she says. He'll ask his buddies who are all as clueless as he is.

Response to ismnotwasm (Original post)

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