The pill interferes with protein synthesis in sperm
Posted 06.24.2010 at 1:08 pm
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Professor Haim Breitbart
via Israel21c
Marijuana, ultrasound, and now mouse sex: the quest for a male birth control method has taken some weird turns.
The latest contender for the elusive male pill is an Israeli scientist who says he has developed a compound that temporarily inhibits the reproductive capacity of sperm, reports Israel21C.
Haim Breitbart of Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv developed the drug, which he calls the Bright Pill, after he and research partner Yael Gur discovered some important biochemical changes that happen to sperm after it enters the female reproductive tract. More recently, the drug development process has involved watching mice copulate.
Mice given a low dose of the compound remain sterile for one month. Those given a higher dose are sterile for three months. But importantly -- and this is where the laboratory voyeurism comes in -- their sex drives remain steady.
"The mice behaved nicely," Breitbart told the website. "They ate and had sex; they were laughing and everything."
What laughing mice look like, I can't say. But Breitbart's method, if it pans out, will add to a number of other quirky attempts at uncovering a safe and effective form of birth control for men. These range from pills inspired by marijuana's link to impotence to some brave attempts to zap the testes with ultrasound. May the race to the finish line begin.
Mara Hvistendahl is writing The X-Y Problem, a book on reproductive technology, sex selection, and gender imbalance.
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this is very good, we need something to curb overpopulation
Ya but it won't do anything to curb the spread of STDs.
@Jedigeek93
Have your children spayed or neutered.
@Craigboy
It would actually to some extent. you wouldn't have children being born with diseases passed on by their parents like AIDS. I Think honestly the rate would stay about the same although that's just a theory. Most men like most women wouldn't take it.
its not a permanent sperm killer, so std's will spread more, condoms wont be used as much, std gets spread, few years later they get married and have kid, now kids born with std
Some people are smart enough to protect themselves when in doubt, some are not. That will not change.
Some people have the choice of birth control, some people don't. That too will not change.
STD, population control, those are not the point. The point is that men will finally get the opportunity to share some of the burden of birth control that women have been carrying for over fifty years now.
Heres what we do, juke stats to point to another pandemic and administer this drug as the vaccine!! mwa ha ha ha
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