If men could get pregnant

[4th law of robotics]

49. As a man I'd love to be able to go through a doctor

to get birth control pills that make men temporarily sterile. But part of my privilege as a man is not having that option.

We're arguing about ease of access and cost, not whether it's possible to get it in the first place.

So for men the options are condoms (same as for women on ease of access and price) or vasectomies (neither easy nor cheap).

Women have a variety of hormonal birth controls, physical insertions, and ultimately abortion as options (plus condoms and the equivalent of a vasectomy).

Men don't have those for any price or inconvenience.

The anti-impotence drug, Viagra, became available in Japan on Tuesday, just two months after being approved in record time by health authorities.

This is a solution to a problem women don't have. When women can get ED I will grant men's advantage in this field. As it stands both men and women can be involved in a pregnancy they don't want.

I'm not sure why Japan hasn't legalized the Pill yet. But since Japan doesn't represent the entire world I'm not sure how that compares to here.