{"id":138490,"date":"2019-03-30T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138490"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:28:43","slug":"researchers-move-ever-closer-to-a-hormonal-male-birth-control-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/researchers-move-ever-closer-to-a-hormonal-male-birth-control-treatment.html","title":{"rendered":"Researchers move ever-closer to a hormonal male birth control treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A means of sharing the birth control burden with men (other than through condoms) has been a long time coming, and researchers working with a\u00a0testosterone \/ progestin gel (dabbed anywhere on the body daily) seem to be coming close to an answer.<\/p>\n<p>A bigger problem seems to be that pharmaceutical companies think there&#8217;s little to no market for such a thing, meaning the research isn&#8217;t exactly well-funded. Apparently they believe that men either are happy to fob off the responsibility for contraception to women, or that somehow they will be &#8220;un-manned&#8221; if they aren&#8217;t spraying copious sperm in all directions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138491\" title=\"the neanderthal man movie poster (caveman)\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man.jpg 580w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 85vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I disagree with their pessimism, but that may just be my own twisted sense of personal responsibility and lack of chest-thumping insecurity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-we-reproduce-male-contraceptive\/\">Male Birth Control Could Actually Happen. But Do Men Want It? | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now if only they could find a pharmaceutical company with any interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,70,348],"tags":[1817],"class_list":["post-138490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-health-science","category-women","tag-contraception"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/caveman-the-neanderthal-man.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27105,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/fiscal-conservatism-and-birth-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":138490,"position":0},"title":"Fiscal conservatism and birth control","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 7:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"There's little new described here, but it's worth reiteration: insurance coverage of contraception saves a significant amount of money. Not just on further health care costs (which is why you don't hear any insurance companies bitching about the mandate), but on the economic and educational opportunities it leaves open for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26798,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/dont-cede-the-argument-on-contraception-and-eek-sex.html","url_meta":{"origin":138490,"position":1},"title":"Don&#39;t cede the argument on contraception (and &#8212; eek! &#8212; sex)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Mar-12 2:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Tomorrow's tweet below is worth consideration (even if put in bolder language than I would myself). It is important to note that women take the Pill for a variety of reasons beyond contraception. Its mix of various hormones are legitimately used for treatment of a variety of conditions. Indeed,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9633,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/end_of_a_period.html","url_meta":{"origin":138490,"position":2},"title":"End of a Period","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-May-06 1:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article on how, increasingly, women are getting contraceptive (or contraceptive-like) treatments to basically stop their menstrual cycles -- and doing it for non-clinical reasons. Using birth-control pills or...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28394,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/more-birth-control-means-fewer-abortions-duh.html","url_meta":{"origin":138490,"position":3},"title":"More birth control means fewer abortions. 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