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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a lot of good answers but im missing one. to get medicine aproved it needs to treat something and be less harmfull than what its treating. for birthcontrol for women, its preventing pregnancy which is a major medical event with a lot of risk, so its worth it. for men that isn’t the case, they don’t get pregnant so there is little risk to them. any medicine thus must be very low risk, which is pretty hard to do for something that messes with the systems responsible for sperm production. birthcontrol for women has a lot of side effects, if those side effects existed in male birth control i’m not sure it would be allowed.
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