A Welsh scientist working on a new male pill wants to reduce the burden on women of protecting against unwanted pregnancies.
Prof Chris Barratt is leading research on a non-hormonal drug which prevents sperm cells from reaching an egg.
His team at the University of Dundee has received significant funding from the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation.
“It’s been a very poorly researched topic for 40 or 50 years,” Prof Barratt said, but society has changed.
His team’s research could see men given a gel or a pill that would affect the sperm cell, effectively disabling its function.
Instead of targeting the production of sperm, his research focuses on slowing the sperm cells’ swimming action down and making them similar to those in infertile patients.
Oh please, your toxic incel-like worldview effectively proved my point. pregnancy is inherently unfair and fucked up… the unfair nature of it makes the burden of risk inherently unfair & fucked up.
No amount of male birth control is going to make you content, so i ask, what the fuck are you advocating for?
Yeah. I think you explained it well. The bodies themselves are different, so it makes sense why the interventions are different.
We could use male condoms, but the problem is couples don’t like that because they want as much of the sexual process to continue naturally.
If you want the process to go uninterfered as much as possible, it makes sense to put the cork at the end of the race (right before fertilization).
If you’re ok with interfering at the beginning, by all means use a male condom (put the cork at the start of the race).