Was in a discussion about this over dinner last night. My GF has like a dozen options: from pills, to implants and patches. I can either wear a condom or have surgery. I feel like there is always some male pill on the horizon that never manages to come. Why is it so hard to develop something for men but so easy for women?
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Because it’s easier to put the burden on women. I’m male, and it amazes me what my wife goes through and I find it baffling how in this day and age for every $12 of medical research spending on men’s health there is only $1 of spending on women’s health. And why? Because men make the decisions on where that money gets spent. Pregnancy in the west has always been a women’s concern and responsibility. Women were shamed and held responsible for the pregnancy, not the man. So why burden men with birth control?
I get that it’s a bit of a confusing argument, but I guarantee you that if more women had a say in where healthcare research dollars get spent, we’d have a male birth control pill and a test for endometriosis instead of Viagra and telling women to just “deal with the pain” and that there’s nothing that can be done about a horrible condition like endo.
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