Why are there no birth control pills for men? Are there not a scientific way to hinder the activities of sperm cells to make them unable to get someone pregnant?
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Women have birth control because they have a built in “off switch” for ovulation (releasing the egg from ovary). That off switch is pregnancy. A pregnant woman doesn’t ovulate. Hormonal birth control mimics pregnancy levels of progesterone and estrogen to trick the body into not ovulating.
Men on the other hand don’t have a natural hormonal way to shut off sperm release. All we could do is stop sperm production, but to do this we would need to drastically reduce testosterone levels, which would have too many other consequences on the body.
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