Male birth control? Yes or no?

Referring to children as parasites and burden's they cant get rid off, oh how the love shines.

If I can take birth control, so can he.

If I were straight I'd be all for male birth control but seeing as I'm gay, no birth control worries for me!

Several of us in our circle of friends have been trying to convince my boyfriend to get a vasectomy for AGES (he has three kids with three different women, the first was right after high school). Unfortunately, one of our closest mutual friends tells him (oh, and this mutual friend is male, too) that he should 'get his shit snipped'. Ye-ah ... phrase it like THAT to an Italian guy, it ain't gonna happen ...

Fortunately, I've been getting through to him that there does NOT need to be a result of our own activities hanging around (after all, since we're known as 'Mulder and Scully' the poor kid will have to be called 'William'). (Incidentally, I'm on BC pills mainly because of monthly reasons.) He's warming to the idea of 'calming the boys down', and is willing to look into any sort of way to be more responsible. He might actually like being on a male BC pill since he'll still feel he has control and won't have a knife anywhere down there.

(Men are such wusses about having operations around their genitals.)

I honestly wouldn't trust a guy to be honest about taking the pill. Not because men are inherently liars or something but that if I'm going to be the one to get pregnant I'd like to be the one in control of BC.

I may be more likely to trust a long-term partner, though.

Just a quick word to any fellas out there with a long term female partner: You do know the birth control pill messes with our libidos, right? Therefore you on birth control=us horny

Assuming there was a male version of "the pill", I would have no issues using it.
I would probably actually prefer it assuming it lowered the risks to her health.

My husband actually brought this up with me last year. He volunteered to use male birth control when they come up with some safe and on par with women's. He's even talked about a vasectomy. Birth control pills don't react well with my body and neither do IUD's. I have lyme disease which I've had for about 20 years and it's wreaked havoc on my health. I've talked to my dr about a hysterectomy/endometri al ablation but I'm too young. Which I find insane and infuriating. It's my body and I'm done having children, my periods destroy my life for a week at a time.

Back on topic though. Yes my husband would definitely be all for male birth control if/when/once they can make it safe.

Well by the time that it's out and safe enough I think I'd be wayyy past needing it..well actually we're already past needing it since my husband has had a vasectomy. But, basically it'd need to be to be around for a long time before I found it safe to use. There's so many horrible side effects with female BC pills, and those side effects were even worse years ago. I imagine that when/if a male BC comes out it'll have quite a lot of side effects that are at first unknown and I wouldn't have wanted my husband to be a guinea pig for that.

I see nothing wrong with it if it is not permanent like the female pill. Here is an article I found...

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I'm probably in the minority here, but I think birth control should be the sole responsibility of women (and I'm not talking condoms). Why? Because we're constantly told how men have no say in the reproductive rights of women, so why should they be responsible for preventing a woman's pregnancy? STI prevention for both the man and his partner via condoms? Absolutely. Being made to take a birth control pill because the woman refuses to? I don't think so.

Wife or girlfriend is pregnant and you don't want the kid but she does? You can't ask her to get an abortion, but you can almost guarantee she'll love getting child support from you once the baby is born. What if you want the baby and she doesn't? She gets an abortion regardless.

I'm all for a guy popping a bc pill if he wants to, but forcing a guy to or making him help pay for the woman's bc? I think that's ridiculously unfair.

It comes down to what the partners want and agree on, but to call it unfair that the burden of birth control lies squarely on the shoulders of women is a bunch of bull.

I sorta clicked before reading. I'd make my partner use it, lol!

I think the option should be available, but I wouldn't use It. How male Birth Control works scares me. I would just rather get a vasectomy.

Yes, will undergo a bout of vas-begone myself!

We would use it, but at the same time is it promoting more STDs? Just curious because people already hate wearing rubbers, and now it's like it's giving an excuse to not put one on, but we are each others sex partners so as for couples then yes I am all for it!

Hormonal birth control, for men or women, will always have a host of side effects. We're messing with a system that nature spent many years developing. If they came up with some male IUD-equivalent (and I have no clue how that would work or anything about it) then I'd recommend it to a partner. Otherwise I'd ultimately leave the choice up to him but I would not be a fan at all of the decreased libido and I'd be spending more money on here.

A LOT of female BC adversely effects women's health and libido and THAT Is considered an "acceptable side effect." About 10-20 years ago, there was a hormonal BC for men presented to the FDA and it had mild side effects, such as a small (I mean SMALL) temporary reduction in the size of the testes and some men took longer to grow a beard....THESE were considered "unacceptable side effects" by the FDA. (WTF????) The drug (whose name escapes me now, and I cannot find it anywhere, but it may have been the cotton seed oil extract drug) didn't even get through the first part of FDA processing.

Women's BC can KILL us with strokes, or heart disease or high BP or destroy our libidos, can cause sterility or simply fail, or give us constant vaginal infections, depression, migraines etc, and still be "acceptable" but even the slightest "side effect" in a male BC makes the drug immediately rejected by the FDA.

You KNOW who runs the FDA. Rich, white MEN! You bet FEW of them want to take a lick of responsibility. (These are the same guys who REFUSE to allow size labeled and manufactured condoms regularly available in the US. (Not just regular and Magnum.) What does THAT tell you?)

The only reason condoms were originally so acceptable is that they were used for disease prevention. Pregnancy in the woman wasn't even a concern. Considering the original condoms were made of.......silk or rag paper. Might prevent disease transmission but doesn't prevent pregnancy.