{"id":51060,"date":"2015-05-13T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/searching-still-for-a-better-male-contraceptive.html"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:20:23","slug":"searching-still-for-a-better-male-contraceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/searching-still-for-a-better-male-contraceptive.html","title":{"rendered":"Searching (still) for a better male contraceptive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assuming the science is as good (and safe) as it sounds, there are two issues in the way of this:<\/p>\n

(1) It's still a (minor) surgical technique. That won't deter some folk, but it's a bigger barrier for relatively casual use than ideal.<\/p>\n

More importantly, though:<\/p>\n

(2) There's no big money in it for Big Pharma.<\/p>\n

'Unlike birth control pills, which must be used daily, sometimes for years, RISUG is a long-lasting, low-cost treatment (the syringe could end up costing more than the material it injects). “Pharmaceutical companies are not interested in one-offs,” Weiss says. “They’re interested in things they can sell repeatedly, like the birth control pill or Viagra.”'<\/i><\/p>\n

Not only does that mean a lack of interest in ponying up the millions of dollars for testing and clinical trials, but (I suspect) active hostility toward the technique.<\/p>\n

Still, I have hope, not as something I'll be likely to use (certainly not by the time it's commercially available in the US), but for people in the near future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assuming the science is as good (and safe) as it sounds, there are two issues in the way of this: (1) It's still a (minor) surgical technique. That won't deter some folk, but it's a bigger barrier for relatively casual use than ideal. 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