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* A vasectomy is a simple, permanent procedure for men. The vas deferens (the tubes that carry sperm) are cut and sealed.
* A vasectomy is performed safely in a doctor’s office using a local anesthetic to numb the area.
* Vasectomies are best for men and couples who believe they never wish to have children in the future. While often viewed as a permanent method, they can sometimes be reversed.

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* Spermicides are chemical jellies, foams, creams, or suppositories that kill sperm.
* They can be purchased in most drug and grocery stores.
* This method used by itself is not very effective. About 26 pregnancies occur over 1 year out of 100 women using this method alone.
* Spermicides are generally combined with other methods (such as condoms or diaphragm) as extra protection.
* Warning: The spermicide nonoxynol-9 can help prevent pregnancy, but also may increase the risk of HIV transmission.
* Risks include irritation and allergic reactions.

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More and more young, single and unmarried men are choosing a radical form of birth control- vasectomies. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, half of all pregnancies in the United States are unwanted. As a man, there are traditionally two methods of birth control; condoms and relying on a woman’s word that she has reliable birth control. There are clear drawbacks to both methods. Major pharmaceutical companies have recently shelved near-ready male birth control pills and injections. They cite “lack of interest” as their reasoning to cease the multi-billion dollar investment, but that choice has left young men who do not yet want to face the enormity of being a father dangerously turning to vasectomies.

Many media commentators, pro-women advocates and even legislators subscribe to the ideology “if a man doesn’t want to father a child, he should have used birth control.” The bias in that argument is very simple- couldn’t you say the same thing about women? Yet, if a woman gets pregnant, wanted or not, she then has the option of aborting or keeping the child. She alone has the decision, and should she decide to keep the child, the man has no choice but to financially step forward and pay child support or face jail time.

One and a half million American women legally walk away from motherhood every year by adoption, abortion or abandonment, yet somehow nobody labels them “deadbeats” or “deserters”. In over 40 states, a mother can return the baby to the hospital within a few weeks of birth- completely opting out of motherhood and any child support responsibility with as much ease as going to the dry cleaners. Yet, if the mother decides she wants to keep the child, she can demand 18 (or in some states 21 or 23) years of child support from the father, and he has no choice in the matter.

Feminists have long based their support for Roe v. Wade around the slogan “My body, My Choice.” Yet, men who share in the responsibility of child rearing and financial support have no choice, with their own bodies or futures. Fatherhood is not a right or a privilege that they can opt into when they feel ready. It is instead something that is thrust upon them, partly due to a lack of choice in their options of birth control.

Research shows that many men are unwillingly drafted into fatherhood. The National Scruples and Lies Survey of 2004 conducted in the United Kingdom found that 42% of the women in the survey said they would lie about contraception in order to get pregnant, regardless of the wishes of their partner.

Experts, politicians and pro-choice advocates claim that the current system is necessary because it protects children. In reality, over time, choice for men would greatly benefit American children. If men had the same birth control options that women have, then the number of unwed births (and the huge social problems associated with them) would be reduced. Choice for men means better parenting for children because more men will be able to become fathers when they are married, willing, and stable- a huge benefit for children and society as a whole.

Women’s advocates correctly note that pregnant women often have legitimate reasons for not wanting to be mothers, including youth, finances and the lack of a suitable relationship or marriage. Yet, all of these apply equally to men. Women have a choice- men should, too.

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I must point out that lots of people for whatever reason seem to think that married couples aren’t using birth control as much as unwed couples are?  That is SO FALSE!  I’ve been married for 5 years and up until 8 moths ago had been or birth control.  I must tell you being a married woman on birth control really SUCKS.  Meaning, when I was single I took birth control to prevent me from getting pregnant by someone I wasn’t committed to. I figured that once I got married that all of that would change and it didn’t.  I don’t want 50 million children so I’m forced to take birth control.  My husband refuses to use condoms (and why should he?) or have a vasectomy.

So what’s a girl to do?  My husband and I are trying to conceive and aren’t having much luck.  Needless to say when and If we do that will be our last child.  Although we’ve decided this together I have this burning anguish in me.  We made this decision based on me not wanting to take birth control anymore (due to fear of long term usage effects) or waiting until menopause kicks in.

I really feel that it’s unfair that if a woman decides with her husband/partner not to have any more children that the woman should be forced to either

a. keep taking birth control until she menopauses or
b. have a tubiligation.

I think men should have more birth control options so for once they can see/feel what it’s like to be us.  This is something we as women have to deal with on a day to day basis. Deciding to give up our right to give birth or continue to pollute our bodies with hormonal toxins and their short/long term uncertainties. This just shouldn’t be.

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I totally welcome more birth control options for men. I believe they should be ale to control their own destiny’s like women do. I mean think about it why is it that we have so many options to choose from and they only have three (abstinence, condoms or vasectomy). Pretty gloomy don’t you think. I think we don’t give men enough credit in this area.

You fail to realize all of the methods on the market are controlled/used by women.  Meaning we control whether we get pregnant or not. If a man decides that he doesn’t want children why should he have to PRAY that the woman he’s with doesn’t sabotage/force him into fatherhood anyway?  If men had the option of taking a pill knowing that it would prevent them from impregnating a women, I think they would take it.

That would be away of not blaming the woman if in fact she gets pregnant. They would be forced to look at/blame themselves for once. Personally, I get tired of men blaming women if the condom breaks or because we took our pill two hours later than normal. Also, why should the woman have to shoulder all of the responsibility of conception. Men shouldn’t be able to have lots of intercourse and leave the protection options up to the woman. It should be a shared responsibility. So I say “BRING IT ON!!”

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Could a male contraceptive pill be in the making? Scientists in Oklahoma found that when they removed a certain cloned enzyme in male mice, their female counterparts didn’t have babies.

Researchers say there’s still a long way to go.

“Oh, there’s a lot of work that has to be done. I mean we have to develop a safe drug to do it and that work is in progress,” says Dr. Kevin Moore with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

The scientists say it’s definitely a breakthrough, but they’re still years away from testing male contraception on humans.

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Have you heard about the birth control for men that is expected to be available next year? No, this birth control does not involve a guy spending the day with badly behaving children. It’s an actual pill (or injection) that men would take that would release small doses of hormones, not unlike the female birth control.

Taking a look at the so called “side effects” for men, they don’t seem as scary as the ones associated with female birth control. I read about weight gain of about four to ten pounds, but that would mostly in muscle mass (no fair!), and it lowers the good cholesterol.

What do you think of the birth control for men?

Guys, would you consider taking it? I know men generally have an aversion to going to the doctor, but would you be interested in finding out more about it?

Ladies, would you want your man to take it? Would you want to know if the guy you were dating was on it?

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“…Elaine Lissner, director of the Male Contraception Information Project…has high hopes for two nonhormonal options that have been making strides recently. An injectable compound called RISUG has completed phase II clinical trials in India, she says, and it seems to prevent a man from fathering a child for up to 10 years—although it is readily reversible during that interval. Likewise, the Shepherd Medical Co. has received FDA clearance to perform a clinical trial on a type of implant that would function much like a vasectomy. Theoretically these ‘intra vas devices,’ which are sutured to the vas deferens (the tube that helps transport semen from the testes to the urethra), are removable. However, humans tests are required to see whether fertility can be restored after long-term use.

“Both female and male activists for male contraception say there are ample reasons that men should start agitating for better contraception options. Lissner lays out a slew of reasons why men—and society, too—would benefit, including the fact that the current options for men are relatively unreliable. Two of the three options available to American men—condoms and withdrawal—have failure rates of 15 percent and 27 percent, respectively, after a year among couples who use them, according to the Mayo Clinic. The third option, vasectomy, is much more reliable, but its potential irreversibility is a serious drawback.”

He writes, that I “argue that women enjoy the power over the timing of reproduction” and that I’m “egg[ing feminists] on.” My argument is that while some women will be happy about the male birth control because it takes the burden of contraception off of them, others may not be so happy because it eliminates their current near-monopoly on reproductive choice.

Do Women Really Want a Male Birth Control Pill?

Women have long lamented the unequal burden they shoulder in the area of contraception. Today researchers are reportedly moving closer to perfecting a male contraceptive that is free of side effects, easy to take, and reversible. But do women really want a male birth control pill?

Power is the reward which comes with responsibility. For example, during the Cold War Americans complained about the money and manpower spent protecting a reputedly ungrateful world from communism. Yet these sacrifices also helped give the United States great geopolitical power, with its attendant perks and privileges.

Similarly, while women legitimately complain that biology has condemned them to bear the burden of contraception, this burden also gives women control over one of the most important parts of any human being’s life–reproduction. The male birth control pill will shift much of that control from women to men. Is the following conversation far away?

Woman #1: “My [husband, boyfriend, significant other] is selfish. He’s on the pill and won’t get off. I’ve asked him to stop taking it but he always says he’s not ready. He just won’t grow up. I don’t know what to do.”

Woman #2: “That’s what the pill has given men—a right to be perpetual adolescents. It’s given them veto power over women who want to have children.”

Despite the stigma that will develop against men who take the pill, the pill will be a success. While most women are responsible and want to have children with a willing, committed partner, studies show that lack of reproductive control can be a major problem for men today. For example, the National Scruples and Lies Survey 2004 polled 5,000 women in the United Kingdom for That’s Life! magazine. According to that survey, 42% of women claim they would lie about contraception in order to get pregnant, regardless of the wishes of their partners.

Jo Checkley, the editor of That’s Life!, is correct when she says “to deliberately get pregnant when your partner doesn’t want a baby is playing Russian roulette with other people’s lives.”

According to research conducted by Joyce Abma of the National Center for Health Statistics and Linda Piccinino of Cornell University, over a million American births each year result from pregnancies which men did not intend.

The male pill will fill a genuine economic need. Child support levels are rising, generally comprising 15-25% of take-home pay for one child, in addition to add-ons for child care, health care, and other costs. There is also a trend towards extending child support obligations beyond the age of 18, and child support enforcement is increasingly wide-ranging and effective.

Moreover, most men realize that it’s difficult to remain a part of their children’s lives once the relationship with the children’s mother has broken down, particularly if the children were born outside of marriage. The pill will help ensure that men only have children in the context that’s best for men -a stable marriage.

The advent of the female birth control pill greatly aided women’s struggle for autonomy and fulfillment. The male birth control pill will also create great changes, but these changes will not be to some women’s liking. Be careful what you ask for—you might get it.

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A new male birth control method to reduce semen output offers results comparable to a vasectomy and may dispel the belief that contraception is a woman’s responsibility, researchers and experts suggest.

University of Sydney researchers published study results in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Feb. 26, reporting that testosterone and progestin hormones can be combined to form a new kind of contraceptive for men.

Researchers analyzed male-contraceptive studies published between 1990 and 2006 and found that the combination of testosterone and progestin effectively suppresses semen output.

Peter Liu, the lead survey author and associate professor at the University of Sydney, said in a March 25 statement that the combination of the two hormones would be reversible and as effective as a vasectomy, a more invasive form of contraception involving surgery.

Though the results seem to foretell a future of men popping the pill instead of women, Liu said in an e-mail that further studies on the drug are needed, because exposure to androgens, or synthetic steroid hormones, must be varied as a male is continually treated. The study found that men respond differently to the treatment - white men respond sooner than, but not as well as, the non-white men in the study.

Warren Farrell, a California-based author of Father and Child Reunion, a book about the importance of fathers to families, said in his book that a male birth control pill is necessary because it adds to women’s options to take the pill and allows men to share the risk of pregnancy.

Farrell said drug companies have felt women would not trust a man to actually be on the pill.

“They’ve felt men wouldn’t take the pill because they don’t perceive birth control to be their responsibility,” he said in a phone interview.

School of Management sophomore Matt Mintz said men should think contraception is their responsibility, but said current methods are effective enough without extra medication.

“Male birth control isn’t necessary when there are other means to prevent possible child birth,” Mintz said. “Just using condoms and spermicide eliminates almost any chance of pregnancy, so that seems fine by me.”

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Before I give statistics, though, let me stress that any birth control method is only as good as the person using it. So, for instance, don’t expect your birth control pill to prevent pregnancy as well as it does in studies if you don’t take it as directed. And don’t expect a condom to work up to 90 percent of the time (as studies show) if your partner doesn’t put it on properly or use them every time you have intercourse-or come close to having intercourse.

The most effective forms of birth control are abstinence-not having sex-or sterilization. There are three forms of sterilization: vasectomy for men, in which the tubes through which sperm move into the penis are blocked or cut; tubal ligation for women, in which the fallopian tubes are blocked, burned or clipped shut; and Essure procedure for women, in which micro-inserts are placed into the fallopian tubes where they form a tissue barrier that prevents sperm from reaching the egg. Each is considered nearly 100 percent effective, and each is permanent.

The intrauterine device ParaGard also prevents pregnancy more than 99 percent of the time, and it can remain in place for up to 10 years. Another intrauterine device called Mirena has a similar efficacy rate, but it also releases the hormone progestin into your body. It may remain in place for up to five years. Another option in the 99-percent-or-more-effective category is Implanon, a tiny rod that is inserted into your arm where it releases a continuous amount of progestin to prevent pregnancy. It can remain in place up to three years.

Other hormone-related options, including birth control pills like Ortho TriCyclen, the OrthoEvra patch, the vaginal ring and progestin injections, are considered “very effective,” meaning they prevent pregnancy 91 to 99 percent of the time. The injection works for three months; the others for one month.

These invasive options are followed by more moderately effective options, which typically prevent pregnancy 81 to 90 percent of the time. They include male and female condoms, the sponge and a diaphragm.

The least effective category of birth control options, which typically prevent pregnancy up to 80 percent of the time, includes natural family planning, which you may know as the “rhythm method,” the cervical cap (FemCap or Lea’s Shield), and spermicide foams, creams, jellies, films and suppositories.

What’s right for you depends on your age and health, the type of relationship you’re in and your current concerns about pregnancy. I urge you to have a discussion with your health care professional about these issues and your various options before making any decision.

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