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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The female reproductive system is much more complex than that of men. It’s easier to mess up a complex machine than a simple machine because there are more places for it to fail.
In men the only place to really disrupt their system is sperm production and sperm mobility. The first isn’t simple to do because men are continuously producing more sperm and the latter needs to hit multiple millions of cells.
Meanwhile in women their system is set up with cycles controlled by hormones, so using hormones there are multiple ways to halt the system at a certain point or prevent part of the cycle from even happening. This is why there are different hormonal options that each person reacts differently too. You can also make the environment lethal to sperm because they are not omnipresent and the physiological space for such a device to be held and be much more easily placed.
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