A birth control pill for men is finally getting closer. I don’t know whether to be surprised that it’s going to come out of Israel, but Haaretz is reporting that Bar Ilan University researchers are working on it and expect it to be on the market in five years.
This is great news for me. I’ll definitely consider using the male birth control pill when it eventually becomes available. I have had so many problems with condoms in Israel, besides the fact that they’re uncomfortable and diminish my pleasure. The other major non-surgical birth control methods are out of my hand as a man, and so I’ve always had to be extra careful with girls I don’t know very well (and even more careful with girls I do know very well).
It does make me worry a bit about the spread of diseases. I’ve never had a sexually transmitted disease, partly because I choose girls with some attention to their sexual histories, and partly because I take care to stay hygienic and wash myself after sex. But if fewer men in general are using condoms, more girls will get more diseases that they could then transmit to me. I will absolutely need to recalibrate my snap judgments about which girls are likely to have diseases and which aren’t.
My other big concern is what effect the birth control pill for men could have on my overall health. I’m already not especially healthy, so I don’t think I need something that fucks around with my endocrine system. I can only imagine the multitude of side effects that are going to be listed for the male pill. Besides the normal ones – headache, dry mouth, etc. – are there going to be side effects so unpleasant that they end up ruining the sexual experience any way?
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