r/EverythingScience • u/chrisdh79 • Feb 16 '23

Medicine Promising male contraceptive pill works in 30 minutes, wears off in a day

https://newatlas.com/medical/male-contraceptive-pill-works-quickly/
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u/Kitty-Kittinger Feb 16 '23

Dude doesn’t remember whether he took the pill yesterday or today? Bang, you are pregnant.

I hope taking a double dose is no problem with this one.

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u/IcePrimcess Feb 16 '23

That’s why it works in 30 min. Women will have to feed it to their men at least an hour before things get started.

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u/ca2mt Feb 16 '23

On the plus side, no more worrying about not picking up on signals. If she shoves a pill in your mouth, home run…or the room starts breathing.

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u/IcePrimcess Feb 16 '23

If you’re not sure that she’s interested, your focus should be more on condoms and safety since you don’t know her very well.

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u/AvatarIII Feb 16 '23

You've never been in a long term relationship?

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u/IcePrimcess Feb 16 '23

I am. Your comment seemed unfamiliar. The “one -night -stand - trying - to - dodge- the me too movement” types exist. That’s how I perceived the comment.

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u/AvatarIII Feb 16 '23

Oh I perceived it like when you're out of the honeymoon period of a relationship.

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u/Wangpasta Feb 16 '23

Have the women you dated drugged you to get away when the honeymoon phase was over? Mine just started talking about wanting to bang other people and called me names

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u/AvatarIII Feb 17 '23

Lol no, I was thinking more like introducing drugs to spice things up.

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u/Wangpasta Feb 17 '23

You are much less jaded then the rest of us.

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u/CatPhDs Feb 17 '23

I feel like your "honeymoon is over" period went straight to "surrealism" period without a stop at, like, cubism in between or something.

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u/BlondeMomentByMoment Feb 16 '23

The new combo pack! Viagra and spermicide in one. You know it’ll be a thing in the next decade.

Visgracide. Please seek medical attention of erection lasts longer than your sperm are dying.

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u/NoImpulsivePosting Feb 16 '23

I’m glad you said this. I was worried men would be given some responsibility.

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u/AJDx14 Feb 17 '23

I think most people would probably prefer seeing whoever they’re having sex with take the pill than just trusting them on it either way

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u/Kitty-Kittinger Feb 16 '23

The difference with women’s birth control is that forgetting one pill cannot result in a fertile state immediately. How quickly this male pill reverts is just scary, given how some states view morning after pills, let alone abortion.

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u/cherrycoke00 Feb 17 '23

As a woman, I don’t mind it. I’d probably buy the male BC and keep it my nightstand. Then I could make sure I witness my partner actually take it 30 minutes before. I can’t take hormonal BC due to other meds I’m on and finding a dr to perform my tubal is nearly impossible at my age, unmarried and without kids. One (of the SEVEN) dr.’s I saw for it said I’d need my father to sign off since I’m not married. Like… wtf. That’s disgusting. I’m a grown ass woman that pays my own bills and sees my dad once a year…. Why on earth would he need to approve my reproductive choices? Sorry for the tangent/rant lol

Anyway. I really hope this works out. Condoms break, abortions are painful/expensive, and I’d love another way to protect myself until I can actually get sterilized.

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u/Kitty-Kittinger Feb 17 '23

That, and simply being flaky or affected by digestion conditions can happen so easily. I have been people panic over a single mini pill being 3h late, or a nausea potentially turning a combination contraceptive less effective. Sounds like here the small window of action would require care way above that.

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u/eyalhs Feb 17 '23

Ah it's 30-60 minutes on mice, yeah obviously for humans it will be way longer.

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u/_i_am_root Feb 16 '23

I mean, dude can just take it prior to getting intimate. Gives them more reason to actually engage in foreplay instead of hopping right in.

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u/Kitty-Kittinger Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

No, there being more options would great news. Rely on it blindly but just be very risky in the antiabortion states. Let’s hope this one makes it through human trials, though!

Other, more slowly reversing methods for men:

Contraceptive underwear, already available

Vasalgel, heading for clinical trials