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After decades of attempts to develop new birth control medications for men, scientists are more hopeful than ever. With new abortion restrictions, demand is growing, experts say.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean this is just "sperm suppression", of course it lowers the risk of pregnancy considerably, but not 100%. I'll still get my tubes snipped at this point. As a guy you simply don't have a lot of options if you want to be safe. Condoms and vasectomy, that's it. And condoms can fail too if you're unlucky.

As soon as the girl is pregnant all you can do is pray she doesn't decide to keep the kid :-/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I got a vasectomy and it was crazy easy. Had a meeting with my doc just so he could make sure I knew it was permanent, I asked if I could have something extra for the pain and dude was like "I can give you vallium is that alright?" Showed up day of, took like 30 mins and didn't feel a thing. Only thing was the smell of burning flesh was a little much but that was literally it.

My partner wants some form of permanent BC herself but literally no doctor will allow it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

With so many fucking people on the planet, you would think doctors would be stoked to sterilize as many people as they can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think they are worried about liability, if I had to guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not if they want pensions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Threaten to do it yourself if they won't do it for you. Lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Or pray she cheated.