Female opinion here… I’m not sure I’d trust my SO to take those pills. I know how forgetful I am about taking my own bothersome little pills. I’d probably find myself sneaking a quick peek at his supply to see if he’d kept up with them before starting anything amorous. Though if he and I were both on the pill then maybe I wouldn’t get worried when my period approaches.
Oh, and for the casual partner angle. Uh, uh. No way. I’ll keep my own protection and he can use some I can see.
In a heartbeat. I don’t do casual sex. I do my darling beloved. He hates condoms, and I hate drugs with a passion. We have been waiting for the male version of the Pill slavering with hope. Trust him? Always, in every way. If I can trust him with my heart, soul and mind, I can surely give him my body. He wouldn’t be my SO if I couldn’t.
Max, I’m sure you are a great guy but your response just rubbed me the wrong way. Women are made to make babies too. I am one of the women of the world that the want and need for children/reproduction/beating Darwin is akin to the need for air. Believe it or not, its a controllable thing, and the responsibility of everyone involved.
In your defence, you also sound like a man determined to be very manly. I like manly men, so none of this is truly meant to be as harsh as it may sound.
I agree that both parties should be responsible when it comes to birth control. I don’t know that I’d trust a man to take a pill everyday…I mean we all get busy and forget things but I rather have the pill be my responsibility.
A vasectomy is great for when you don’t want to have more kids but what about the 30 year old that is in a committed relationship but doesn’t want to have kids yet? Should all of the birth control options be up to the woman? I believe that it should be a shared responsibility.
I read somewhere that a vaccine is being developed that kills sperm when it is introduced to the female reproductive system. I’m not sure of the status of the research at this time.
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I wouldn’t be taking it to protect a woman from the risks of pregnancy (and any woman would be silly to trust a man to do so, IMO) but to protect myself from the risks of involitional fatherhood.
In lieu of having such a thing available to me when I came to sexual maturity, I had a vasectomy. So yes it is a good thing.
God yes. anything but conoms!
Sure, I’d use a male contraceptive. But not very often, only when I felt like it.
Here’s how the new male birth control pill works. You take it, and 24 hours later it switches your blood type. (Only old farts are going to get this one, and NO I’m not going to make myself feel older by explaining…)
-LabRat
I got it. I’m not that old.
Anyway, I would definitely take the guy pill. Only because my girl is not, how to say?, the most responsible person in the world when it comes to remembering.
Did you know you’re supposed to take those little things everyday at approximately the same time? Every day?
Seems that someone is always forgetting to start a new batch of pills because someone refuses to take the week of blue pills “because they don’t really do anything anyway,” and when someone else mentions that they should take them anyway to reinforce the habit, and someone says, “don’t worry about it, I won’t forget,” and then that someone forgets anyway… well, that’s just enough to make someone consider taking a new form of male contraceptive, isn’t it?