male Contraceptive introduced.
 

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well i think it sounds like a great idea... and would be great... but thinking about the idea of getting a shot right in the nuts sounds painful... but... i might be willing... depending on other options... and it lasting up to 10 years... for just $22 is very impressive...

What they didn't tell you is that side effects include nausea, dizzyness, eye strain, weight gain, loss of libido, swollen testicles, permanently reduced sperm production, and dick shrinkage.

$22 bucks, reversible, with no side-effects? I'd get stabbed in the balls for that.

"Up to" 10 years? How am I supposed to know if it is still good at 9.5 years, other than a pregnant woman?

Wow.. nice.. I'll let others bite the bullet for me before I decide though...

Well, if the hype is correct, then yeah, I would bite the bullet.

Cost alone is worth a little bit of pain, not to mention the side effects women have to go through using their contraceptives.

man no love for balls here. something about losing my virility just freaks me out .i'll just stick to 'ol rubber glove for the 1 fingered man(i 'm too young and don't have any long realtionships nowadays anyways to not worry about std's). of course i'm guessin people considering this are in their late 20s at least right?

*shrug* im 19... id do it if it really meets up with the hype... 10 years... i might not be in relationships in all that time... and if i wasnt in a commited relationship id still use a condom...but condoms do break from time to time...

i'd have to see what the side effects really are first...but sounds good to me.

If this is proven to work, im sold. Pain or no pain, i'd rather have a short stab of pain than 18 years of headaches before I was ready.

haha i found that quote humorous, anyways i cant imaging getting stabbed in the balls could feel to good, but it may be worth it considering the effectiveness

if it works...i'd still be leary of the reversability after 10 whole years. not to mention, what could long-term exposure do to your junk?

if it's bs, then...well...this is one "man overboard"

the problem i see with this is that while it is great for the man, knowing that he won't cause any babies before their wanted, outside fo a relationsjhip, andy woman would be stupid to A) not make the guy use a consom, and B) put that kind of risk and responsibility in the hands of someone they aren't in for the long haul with. they're just asking for trouble.

STAY AWAY FROM MY NUTS DOCTAH
*runs*

yeah....sign me up

if it wasnt for too many side effects of course :(

Um, I think I will pass on that one.

Yeah, right...

'Stabbed' and 'balls' should never coexist within the same sentence.

i'll give it a year of real world testing if it works, i'll do it
i can suck up 5 min of pain for several years of worry free spraying
get it reversed for 3-5 years to have some kiddies and go back for life

Sounds like a great solution...except the needle in the nuts part

I'm skeptical about the cost though. $22? By the time it gets FDA approval and is ready for the market I bet it's more than $200. At least in the states. We'll probably be able to drive to Canada and get the injection for $22.

or $3300 canadian.

I would let a doctor inject anything near my penis...I'll just stick to the traditional methods.

I'd do it. I've always said that when they come out with a reliable method of birth control for men, I'd be all for it.....

.....There's no way I'd become a hypocrite over something like a little injection - even if it is in the balls.

Good luck to all that try it.. I'll wait a year or two before getting it I reckon just to see if there ARE any side effects.. and still.. a shot in the balls.. urgh..

I'm with Hal

The vas deferens is not the testicle itself. It's the tube connected to it. You guys make it sound like the needle is gonna poke a hole into my testicle and drain it out or soemthing.

SO all it does it put an ionic charge around the testes, I wonder if being around microwaves, emf, etc. will change that charge and render it useless? I think I will wait and see about more testing first. But if it does work I am all for it. Too many unwanted pregnancies especially with the younger generation (i.e 15-18 yr. olds) who are experimenting with sex and do not understand the repercussions. Sex = babies if you don't watch what your doing.

Besides a little shot in the nuts can't kill you, just sperm!

Besides I'd rather have the responsibility for birth control in my hands not someone else's. Just a little more peace of mind.

it didnt say vas deferens though, it said it was at the point where the vans meets the testicle, so its close enough for me to be worried about little pokey things....

Ionizing my balls? Bursting sperm? Sounds like genocide, and I can't believe there are no long term effects from magnetizing (ionizing) your sack.

After some serious long-term tests are done, then Ill do it, but until then the rubber glove does me fine. Either way Im taking the matter of controlling pregnancy in my own hands.

And hey! I am 18 and even I know that sex = babies :P

I'd do it...as soon as someone proves its reversible without side effects. Better than making girl take a pill every day that makes her sick. Even if it was large-bore-needle-shot to Each Nut, I'm in, if it were effective. Come on, what ever it is, it can't hurt more than birth, right? Man up, all y'all!

(still, shudders at thought)

Before any of you take this shot, just remember that they also said that there weren't any real side effects of Depo Provera, the bc shot for women. Read this.... http://www.abcinternetmarketing.com/depo-provera/

I'd do it, after all the guinea pig men were done with it to prove it wouldn't have the side-effects of DepoProvera in the article AngelHands linked to. My girlfriend was on the shot, it was cool because she wasn't going to get pregnant... too bad her sex drive was so decreased she didn't want to have sex.

I'm going to wait, but sure seems a better option than a vasectomy. A shot is a shot. It's not like Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies has to give you head.

Hey, I like that idea... then again I'm not a boy either!

It sounds like a good idea... I mean it would be great if I never had to worry about taking the pill anymore...and it would def save a lot of money...The only reason I wouldn't want my SO to use this method is b/c what if years from now he went to get it reversed and something went wrong and it wouldn't reverse...then he would never be fertile... one day In the future I want to have kids...

" injection to the testicles"

ill pass lol

Sounds interesting. My wife wants me to get "snipped", so one shot there would be AS bad.

And she should go through menopause within the next 10 years, so only one shot.

I'd probably do it.

I asked my doc about this & she said that it was best not to go messing with this kind of stuff untill its been on the market for a year or so.

And I'm going to trust you guys had the shot Yeah..........!
that is like you guys saying "HONEY IT'S OKAY I"LL PULL OUT"

I'll stay on the pill thanks.

definetly sounds interesting, GF thought it sounded good too, i hope to read some more postive stuff about this in the future

Great, my little guy's heads explode? Damn! I think I would have it done though. It's probably less painful than getting the tubes snipped. Less invasive too by the sound of it. Then, I can spread my love everwhere! :thumbsup: Drive-by "shooting" anyone? :lol:

I cant think if that would be extremely painfull or not... lol. If it felt like a normal needle prick I bet I would.. but the thought of a needle poking me there makes the fellas want to hide.

maybe if i had sex on a regular basis, or on any basis.

if it ever happens it's nice to know that's an option. I hate needles but I'd go through it for the peace of mind.

btw does anyone know how long this usually takes to get aproved by the FDA and out on the market and tested etc ?

I would very seriously consider doing this. It's scary how much the Pill messes with a woman's body chemistry...it should be much easier to develop a male contraceptive that's less harmful.
Still, a needle to the testicles? Holy crap!
That's a little intimidating. Still...if you only have to do it once every 10 years or so...

I'm there in a heartbeat. It's totally unfair that lurkette has borne the burden of managing our contraception--all the side-effects and crap she's put up with--for the 13 years of our relationship.

I googled this thing a little bit. Sounds like it was invented in India, has had some good results and positive clinical trials there. It's in trials in Canada. So it'll be a few years yet before it's on the US market.

any news about this ?

"Causing the sperm to burst." Anyone else have a problem with this description? Hmm... almost sounds painful.

Hopefully RISUG eventually makes its way to the US. Like the article states, it's much more economical than a pill (for a woman or potentially a man). Not only that, it won't screw with your hormone levels. Dr. Sujoy Guha of India is the creator of the contraceptive and has been working on it for 25 years. From http://www.gristmagazine.com/maindis...lman081303.asp : All I've read about it makes it sound very promising. Apparently some US researchers have said the Indian testing is not thorough enough in terms of toxicity, however there have been no side effects in the ten years of trials on men or even higher dosages on primates.

That gave me the biggest nervous twinge in my life. Just picturing....ow.

Given that I'm not too keen on the idea of having kids (except for the fact that I'm an only child and need to preserve the family line) I don't think I'd risk getting poked by a needle in the nuts.

I think I'd just go for a vasectomy.

If it works and is reversible, sign me up! A needle in the testicular region doesn't sound too pleasant, but the way I look at it, I've been kicked in the balls or had the boys otherwise accidentally smashed on many occasions, and the pain goes away pretty quickly. A short period of sore balls vs. a lifetime of raising a kid...that's not a tough choice for me.

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Nurse: "don't worry bobby, it's just a little prick...."
Bobby: "Who you callin little?"

My kneejerk reaction to an injection into my balls is a "GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!" But when thinking it over I'd have to say i'd do it once they work out the kinks, like serious side effects, loss of libido, possibility of permanent sterility.

I'm gonna sit and wait and see how many men this renders entirely incapable of procreating before I jump on this wagon of craziness.

that's a neat concept, but how many men would go for it? that would hurt. personally i'd like to see men take on the burden of birth control...really. women have more than done their share. :p

The day I trust a non-invasive male contraceptive as a sole means of preventing pregnancy is the day I'll do the same for a female non-invasive contraceptive, which is to say that it'll never happen.