Of mice and men
Wowsers. Well, I guess it’s about time it happened…or is happening. It will be interesting to see how this affects men and society. Though I wonder how many men would really be willing to use it.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Why has there never been a male contraceptive pill? Probably because, knowing that women have stronger reasons to carry this burden, nobody was trying very hard. But now, 50 years after women started risking their health and happiness by swallowing synthetic hormones on a regular basis, Israeli scientists have announced that a male pill is in sight.
And — what do you know? — they have come up with a really nice one: non-hormonal, so without those nasty side-effects that women have put up with for so long; and long acting, so you don’t have to think about it every day, as women have had to do.
Says Professor Breitbart of Bar-Ilan University: “I think most women would trust their man to remember once a month or once a quarter.”
Would they?
Breitbart says that “men don’t cope well with side effects” of hormonal contraception, which include loss of sex drive. Women, by implication, do. They also put up with weight gain and increasing their risk of breast cancer. But men, well… So the researchers stuck at the job until they found an alternative — a way of removing a vital protein in sperm.
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Some men need to man up.