– We are always hearing about breakthroughs in male birth control but I never seem to hear about it again. Why is this? Is there a reason why multiple different forms of male birth control never seem to materialize for sale?

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– We are always hearing about breakthroughs in male birth control but I never seem to hear about it again. Why is this? Is there a reason why multiple different forms of male birth control never seem to materialize for sale?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You can’t ‘trick’ a male body not to produce semen because it is pregnant. There is no ‘natural’ mechanism to shut down this feature unlike the female body.

So if you do manage to shutdown the production of healthy semen you probably shutdown some other important stuff in the male body as well. That is not the idea.

Also most of these male birth control’s need some time to be activated. Like actively using it for 1 month before it might work.

Yeah, I do not think it is ever going to be a thing.