# so what's going on with the male pill? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441 "2005-04-15T05:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/1 "2005-04-15T05:02:13Z")
Several years ago I heard about this male pill all over the place, but lately i haven’t. When is this thing coming out so I can go get some. I googled, but i found old links. I would totally be willing to take this pill, i think it is a great idea. ---
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/2 "2005-04-15T05:03:36Z")
by get some, i meant the pills :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/3 "2005-04-15T05:28:08Z")
I get ads for male pills in my email all the time! Want me to forward some your way? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/4 "2005-04-15T05:30:53Z")
I don’t need it any bigger 😉 i just need to kill the baby juice 😃 ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/5 "2005-04-15T06:41:51Z")
> [@Sandlegs](#): > > I don’t need it any bigger 😉 i just need to kill the baby juice 😃 Unfortunately, still nowhere close to market, although a number of promising ideas are still out there and I think that one will be on the market eventually, hopefully in the next couple of decades. The last I heard the most promising candidate from mouse trials was some sort of chemical that broke down a sugar-complex that was specific to sperm/egg signaling and prevented sperm from treated mice from getting their mouse mates pregnant. I don’t know if we have an identical or analogous target in humans, but let’s hope. ---
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/6 "2005-04-15T19:22:09Z")
I’ve read they were doing trials on humans, and it worked 100% of the time. [here is an older link](http://www.askmen.com/love/dzimmer_60/72_love_answers.html) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-with-the-male-pill/299441/7 "2005-04-15T23:52:15Z")
In one of my classes in school last year I was told that a male BC pill had been tested, and it worked amazingly well…it decreased the sex drive of the men to the point where sex just wasn’t going to happen anyways. I presume the company in question has gone back to the proverbial drawing board.