I’ve been reading about some new developments in male birth control, and three non-hormonal methods are finally showing real promise. Would you try one of these if they were safe, reversible, and effective?
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YCT-529
A non-hormonal pill that blocks a protein needed for sperm production found to be 99% effective in animal trials. No effect on libido or testosterone. Human safety trials completed with no major side effects -
Plan A (by NEXT Life Sciences)
Based on Vasalgel / RISUG, a gel injected into the vas deferens (with local anesthesia) Physically blocks sperm and is reversible by flushing it out. Lasts for years with a single injection. Phase 1 trials (device delivery) completed with 100% success. Larger human trials planned for later this year -
ADAM (by Contraline)
A hydrogel also injected into the vas deferens. Works like a temporary vasectomy, but the gel naturally dissolves over time. No hormones, no daily pills just one long-term treatment. Phase 1 human trials started in 2022 — early results show no sperm and no serious side effects . Larger trials starting soon
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Sure why not?
I got a vasectomy. Male birth control
Is years away from ever working or being viable. You all are delusional if you think male birth control will happen within a decade, they’ve been saying it’s around the corner for at least a decade now.
I don’t see why not. On one hand it’s scary, but on the other hand it’s no scarier and even seems safer than the female birth control methods that have existed for years now
Given the potential it has to prevent, any man who doesn’t wish to have a children in the immediate future or at all would be moronic to not consider it.
Sure, but I’d still want to use a condom until marriage.
I think any and all new advancements into something like that is very good news, and I would hope many dudes who are open to something like that would use them. I wouldn’t, but that’s because I would want whatever I did to be permanent so I’m more in the market for a regular vasectomy or other options that are designed to be permanent.
I wouldn’t try it just as I wouldn’t have ever encouraged women to take birth control.
I’d be careful with using anything that’s gonna mess with your hormones and sperm production if you’re actually planning on having kids. Lots of these drugs have side effects that people report whether you believe it’ll effect you in that way or not.
Sure!
I’d be totally down, and it would be nice that she wouldn’t have to get any contraceptive — all of the options for women seem uncomfortable af.
It would be good. Can’t be too careful.
Hopefully they have fewer side effects than the last potential batch which included death and permanent infertility.
I don’t care.
I would not have sex with a woman I didn’t want to impregnate so would not use male birth control.
If you don’t want a baby, then save yourself the trouble of taking that chance.
I’ll still try making a baby with the bros so.
I would try it but I also would tell my daughter never to trust birth control to another person except for your husband after you witnessed his vasectomy
If I were a young man, sure. As I am today, in my 50’s and unattached, no thanks.
At this point, assuming the highly unlikely scenario of me giving relationships one last go, I would not date a woman young enough to have more children to begin with. And even if, again assuming a highly unlikely scenario of me meeting a woman who was young enough to have children again, I would just get a vasectomy before trying some random new drug.
Not that there’s any issue with new drugs, lots of them help lots of people. But I’m already on enough pills being a middle age man with HBP and pain management issues. So no, not adding a new tablet, new capsule, new anything. I’d rather just get snipped.
I don’t think much of it. Got a vasectomy a few months ago. Life is easy now.
I would, and offered to get snipped. But the wife has an IUD and it helps her with perimenopause, so there’s no need.
Sure, i have no problem taking it. The bigger issue I find is making sure people aren’t lying when they’ve said they’ve been tested recently 😛
I would if I didn’t already have ED lol
What are the side effects? I don’t encourage my partners to use BC because of the side effects. I’d rather just use a condom. But if they’re mild, and I get to shoot blanks without pulling out, I’m down.
Yes, absolutely. Especially if it’s a pill.
I think a lot of the children whose fathers then disappear because they don’t want to be fathers would never have been born if men had more control over whether or not they conceive a child. Unfortunately, functional contraception for men has been promised for so long that I’ve stopped believing it.
I’m not fucking with the biology of my body. No thanks. I’ll just use a condom
Of your partner is using contraception, why wouldn’t you share the lead?
With birth rates what they are? Fuck that. I’m tryna get any chick I boff pregnant.
I had a vasectomy, does that count?
I already had a vasectomy because this wasn’t available. Happy for the non snipped men out there
“Don’t worry about it baby…I’m on the pill”
No woman would nor should ever trust this.
Nah. Already got a vasectomy. Allow me
To share a snippet from my procedure report…
PROCEDURE REPORT
The patient was placed on the table in a supine position and prepped with 1% Povidone and wrapped in the usual sterile manner for scrotal procedures. The median raphe was infiltrated with 1% lidocaine and each vas deferens was localized, brought to the midline under the median raphe, and infiltrated in the perivasal tissue with 1% lidocaine. Using the special loop instrument and the special sharp dissector, the vas deferens was isolated through a small opening in the skin. The special vas loop instrument was then used to grasp the vas and bring it up towards the opening. The sharp vas instrument was then used to dissect the vas free from its attachments. A segment of the vas deferens was removed and the ends secured with surgical clips and the end was cauterized with a cautery device. When the ends were separated they were placed back in their normal position. The exact same procedure was carried out on the contralateral vas deferens. The skin was closed with 3-0 chromic. One suture was placed. Sterile dressings were applied. The patient tolerated the procedure well, all sponge and instrument counts were correct.
Surrounded by 4 very cute nurses…
Naked from the waist down.
In a cold operating room…
I feel as though it was not my proudest moment…
Assuming it’s safe effective reverseable and without any noteworthy side effects. Sure.
But those are big assumptions to make. They would need to be all but guaranteed.
Plan A also destroys HIV so it makes transmission virtually impossible. It’s not just for straight men trying not to conceive
I think it’s exciting, and high time we get good male-focused contraceptives.
Yeah why not? The first one is non-hormonal as well meaning it would impact you far lesser than hormonal pills for women.
I’ve been following Vasalgel development for years and am looking forward to a much cheaper alternative to a vasectomy.
Yes, but I forget to take my usual meds all the time.
hell yeah
Absolutely not. We have seen what it has done to women. Condoms work.
Once its been tested, I’d have no problem taking it
Already had my balls disconnected surgically
As long as it doesn’t lead to suicide, like the last trials i read about (and were made fun of, go figure), I’m totally down.
Anything but condoms
2 and 3. I’ve 1st read about vasalgel about 20 years ago and to this day this fucking thing isn’t available yet, I would much ratter use that instead of having the vasectomy that I actually ended up having.
lol if I were having sex regularly maybe
Pulling out works
I think if there are successful clinical trials that would be great. My wife’s attitude about this (when we were much younger) was in two parts:
For her, she would have to block one egg a month. For me, we’d have to block a couple billion sperm a week. Blocking one seems more likely to succeed.
When she was done having babies, what she was worried about was “Can I get pregnant?” not “Can he impregnate me?” So she opted for sterilization for herself.
Nah
Pass, I use a condom and when the time comes I’ll get the snip.
Let me know when they’re available. I’m interested, I just have no faith they’ll make it to market anytime soon. I was reading about RISUG 20 years ago and have yet to see a product at market. At this point I’m planning to just get the snip, and mostly haven’t because I’m terrible at convincing myself to call the doctor.
But yes, I’d try them if they were actually available and reliable.
I’m happy to have had a vasectomy so my wife can be off hormonal birth control. That stuff was wrecking her sex drive and weakening her ovulation while extending her periods. Her periods are much shorter now and when she’s ovulating everything is more awesome for both of us. I’m interested to see what this male birth control does to men and if it has as many negatives as it does for women
I mean, I just went for the permission male birth control.
If I was a woman, and I didn’t want to get pregnant, I wouldn’t trust anyone to assume that responsibility on my behalf. Moral/social arguments notwithstanding, I would make sure that I didnt get pregnant.
Nah I’m good.
I’m gay, so it’s a moot issue for me.
Unless I got in a relationship with a trans man, and in that case, I’d definitely be up for it. A trans guy would already have enough hormone management to do, to add contraceptives on top of it.
I’d definitely prefer RISUG or similar, or a vasectomy if needed.
It’s not like I plan to make anyone pregnant anyway.
If it’s reached a point where its safer than female birth control than i guess i wouldn’t mind. But by the time that happens i don’t think i need them anymore they started trying for male birth control in the 1970’s and basically nothing new that is viable has been made since 1980’s so. If we consider the rate its going at. We might see something new in 2070
I wouldn’t. And as I am single at my age, I doubt I would ever really need to try it.
I’m all for it. I think men shouldn’t need to undergo a practically irreversible procedure (vasectomy) just to enjoy raw sex without fear of pregnancy. Only thing is, I WILL NOT be one of the first to take that pill. Yall can give it a try and I’ll hop on that bandwagon in a few years if it doesn’t have wild side effects.
I gotta vasectomy without being sure if I wanted kids or not. Then I found out you can freeze a few swimmers and put them in a cryobank.
All the kids I’m ever going to have are frozen. Vasectomies aren’t as bad as you might think, a nearby nurse was kind enough to let me talk at her nervously while they did the ole snip snip. Did nothing but rotate frozen peas on my crotch for the next 24 hours and I followed doctor’s orders. Bam.
And my reasoning has always been, it’s easier, cheaper and more effective than women’s birth control.
I’d absolutely have been willing to try any of the three if they’d come along earlier. I’d been hoping to get access to Vasalgel for years. There’d be no reason for me to do it now, but hopefully my son will have some options available to him when he’s a little older.
I am excited for Vasigel, been watching for years and investing in it.
Yct 529 looks promising. Id be all over that.
If I hadn’t had a vasectomy a decade and a half ago I’d definitely be on at least one of them. Probably the pill as the unpredictability of the other two don’t give me the warm and fuzzies. They fail or end at different rates depending on physiology and going back all the time to check or whatever you have to do sounds like a chore and the procedure is probably way more expensive.
I’m too old for it to be relevant now, but it was sometime in the 1980’s when I first heard about the pill for men being bandied about, and I was all for it. All of the above mentioned are something that I would use if they had been about when I was younger.
Since the early 2000s there has been online hype about male contraception being almost ready to go public. It never works out and the brand’s PR goes quiet then a few years later another brand makes the same promises.
Some of them ended up reporting that their effect wasn’t reversable, some reported that they caused constant pain, some turned out not to actually work at all for stopping function, some caused significant hormonal problems which then affected sexual function.
Turns out it is hard to safely stop the bullet without damaging the gun.
If they ever succeed in genuinely passing trials and getting approval in high standard countries I certainly wouldn’t be against them but I sure as fuck wouldn’t be an early adopter of such tech.
Yes i would have if safe, but none existed when I would have used them. A lot of the potentials have run into unacceptable side effects like permanent infertility. Some of the vas deferens gels seem promising, although procedure costs would likely make them one of the most expensive forms of contraception in most countries. But a lot cheaper than a kid!
Im done with kids now so I’ll get snipped.
Until this shit is available, i refuse to believe any of these male birth controls are going to happen.Shits been talked about for the last 10-15 years
I first heard of vasalgel 13 years ago. When I got my vasectomy 7 years ago, there was no chance of this shit coming out anytime soon. 7 years later, there’s still no chance of this shit coming out anytime soon. I’d be shocked if any of these hit the market before 2040.
Sounds great, I’m all for it and I’d be taking the pills myself if necessary.
But if I was a woman, no way in hell I’d ever trust a guy to tell the truth without receipts/proof.