A new non-hormonal pill would slow sperm cells' swimming action, effectively disabling them.

A Welsh scientist working on a new male pill wants to reduce the burden on women of protecting against unwanted pregnancies.

Prof Chris Barratt is leading research on a non-hormonal drug which prevents sperm cells from reaching an egg.

His team at the University of Dundee has received significant funding from the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation.

“It’s been a very poorly researched topic for 40 or 50 years,” Prof Barratt said, but society has changed.

His team’s research could see men given a gel or a pill that would affect the sperm cell, effectively disabling its function.

Instead of targeting the production of sperm, his research focuses on slowing the sperm cells’ swimming action down and making them similar to those in infertile patients.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
    217·
    11 months ago

    Oh please, do mansplain to me about the risks of pregnancy some more, I hadn’t had a fucking clue! 🙄🙄🙄

    You assholes just can’t fucking help yourselves, can you??? 😂

    It’s not as if there are other ways to stop pregnancy if the risk is such a concern, if only men didn’t regularly refuse them too, perhaps women wouldn’t have to suffer the hormonal hell men have_ the privilege_ to refuse, that is imposed on us often from puberty on top of that risk. But clearly it isn’t really that much of a concern after all… Not for men.

    Also, because I’m not wasting any more energy on you:

    You can pretend toxic masculinity and male fragility and entitlement, never mind the male dominance and minimisation of women’s suffering in medicine, don’t exist all you like, but that doesn’t make them any less real or impactful… ¯(ツ)/¯

    • Salad_Fries@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Oh please, your toxic incel-like worldview effectively proved my point. pregnancy is inherently unfair and fucked up… the unfair nature of it makes the burden of risk inherently unfair & fucked up.

      No amount of male birth control is going to make you content, so i ask, what the fuck are you advocating for?

      • stepan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Yeah. I think you explained it well. The bodies themselves are different, so it makes sense why the interventions are different.

        We could use male condoms, but the problem is couples don’t like that because they want as much of the sexual process to continue naturally.

        If you want the process to go uninterfered as much as possible, it makes sense to put the cork at the end of the race (right before fertilization).

        If you’re ok with interfering at the beginning, by all means use a male condom (put the cork at the start of the race).