Comments on: Why is There no Birth Control Pill for Men?

By: Mixy

Mixy — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:11:11 +0000

From me reading this post Almost everyone here are a little sexist….y???
First of all for thd comments about women and BC. All women dont lie and All women arent on birth control. Personally If im not on BC Im going to let you know ahead of time. Also heres another question why are you men only depending on the women and BC to keep from pregnancy maybe if you go to the doctor with these women you would know that BC is not 100%. NOTHING IS 100% NOT CONDOMS, SPERMICIDES, OR ANY BC!!!!

I do understand and feel bad for the men that take responsibilty especially with their children, I feel like the government is sexist and chooses the side of the female at all times.

I think a male BC would be great

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:24:26 +0000

Simply due to the fact that each half the population is biologically incapable of putting themselves completely into the other half’s shoes would make the task difficult enough.

Oopsie. Guess I’d better stop doing that.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:03:04 +0000

John just looked at the pictures.

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:03:23 +0000

John, before commenting, you might want to read beyond the third paragraph. Nothing you’ve said contradicts the substance of the post.

By: John Q. Stillwater

John Q. Stillwater — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:29:46 +0000

As a scientist in training (an evolutionary biologist no less) I can say this article is to science as fad diets are to eating healthy and exercising. Interesting to the layperson but lacking in any real substance beyond what is found after hitting up the top 2 results from a Google search.

Most people still don’t understand how difficult it is to study human behavior, much less behavior as complex as sexuality and self-identity. Out of every piece of molecular machinery in the universe we have invented or know about, nothing comes close to being as complex as the human brain.

Simply due to the fact that each half the population is biologically incapable of putting themselves completely into the other half’s shoes would make the task difficult enough. Many people don’t even fully understand the daily decisions they make themselves. Throw in thousands of years of cultural and linguistic evolution, various world religions, economic divisions, geographic divisions, and up to this point an exponential growth of technology of all forms, and you have something that cannot be summarily described as “Men. Control.”

So what does that mean for the other comments? Some of them are insightful but for most I’d say people need to yank themselves out of the paradigm they currently think they are not in. The grass is always greener on the other side.

Also 90% of statistics used to argue in internet comment wars are bullshit.

By: anonemouse

anonemouse — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:27:14 +0000

The vasectomy is the way to go, guys. Don’t trust your gal when she says she’s on the pill. Even if she’s “on” the pill, she could have innocently forgotten to take the pill.

By: Silly_cooze, from Tyler Texas

Silly_cooze, from Tyler Texas — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:05:04 +0000

If you are like me and came here looking for scientific information about male birth control and found nothing but feminist rhetoric:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3543478/ns/health-sexual_health/

This will answer your question. This article will not.

To the man haters who posted above:

GOOD MEN do need birth control, because women will trap us with children…

It happened to me, condom sabotage. It was all too easy for her to FUCK UP MY LIFE and now I have a son who has never looked into his fathers eyes.

Women can be sh!tty too. (Seems like the lowest life forms on this earth are uneducated white women, and typical black men.)

Sex has many purposes, not just reproduction. DO SOME READING (Not just the Bible.)

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:39:05 +0000

There’s a few great reasons why there’s been no concentration on male birth control pills. Men would remember to take them. Women wouldn’t get pregnant. Abortion clinics would suffer because of it. Also, lawyers would take a hit also because a female wouldn’t have to contact a lawyer about child support. It’s no more complicated than that, folks.

By: Meia

Meia — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:12:48 +0000

Yes it is useful for those things. Regardless of what we WANT sex to be. It is a tool for creating offspring. A man is driven to send out sperm to fertilize an egg. I am sorry people don’t want to accept accountability in that manner; sex has consequences because you are fighting nature when you are not using it to have a child.

Of course we want sex, even when not ovulating. It feels amazing and the intimacy is assuring. But that doesn’t mean that the organ is there for that purpose. A mouth is designed for eating food. Sometimes we use it for moving someone else’s tongue around in, but regardless its primary purpose if for mastication.

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:14:15 +0000

Honestly, sex is for making babies.

Umm, no, no it’s not – not for humans anyways. I mean yes, it can be used for that too, but that is not the primary reason that humans have sex.

Humans have sex because it is pleasurable and because it can, in the right context, foster a certain kind of intimacy. The vast majority of sex humans have, is for purely psychological and emotional reasons. Though that may well be supplanted by sex motivated by pleasure, rather than to support a monogamous relationship.

After all, as Greg mentions, apes aren’t necessarily naturally big on monogamy.