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Finally, Male Birth Control

June 10, 2024
Gel-based male birth control is easy to apply: on the shoulder, thank you! But how do its side effects compare to women’s birth control?
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Clinical trials for a gel-based male birth control showed effective sperm suppression in 86% of participants after two months. The promising gel— which male users rub on their shoulders— contains a mixture of testosterone and the synthetic...
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Brother. Do you use protection?
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Yes, now we do because we have a baby.
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So we want to kind of let you know.
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Yes. Well, brother,
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male birth control is right around the corner.
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It is an option just letting you know,
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researchers say they are finally making progress on a long acting and
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reversible birth control option for men.
00:22
And guess what? It's simple.
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What do you do it?
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Creta? It's grandma like literally a gel,
00:30
put it on your penis or something.
00:32
No, you put it on your,
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I think your shoulders,
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your shoulders. So it's a gel.
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You put it on your shoulders every day and there you go
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you just put on your shoulders every day.
00:49
Not bad. I mean,
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it sounds too good to be true.
00:51
What's the catch? What's the catch?
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There's always a catch.
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So men are warned that they could experience dry or oily skin
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increased or decreased, libido,
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interesting hair growth or loss.
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That's where you lost me.
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Oh No. And mood swings,
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this sounds like a freaking like pharmaceutical commercial.
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But it doesn't compare to what we have to go through as
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women like dude, Iu Ds are painful.
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Like, they are painful and,
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I mean, nothing compares to the nausea,
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migraines, weight gain,
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weight loss, mood changes.
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Well, actually I'm not,
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I'm not opposed to weight loss s heart problems,
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breast ovarian cervical cancer,
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which is like, what we have to deal with as women
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when we're on birth control.
01:45
No, you're right.
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Yeah. I mean,
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that's a good point.
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So, like, does it just kind of do I just
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stop and it goes back?
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Yeah. So the sperm count is returned to normal levels within
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like two or three months.
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Yeah. So after the recovery phase of the trial,
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many of the participants actually went on to become fathers.
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So, proving that the method is fully reversible,
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I'm kind of going to try this.
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If I start seeing hair fall out,
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then I'll stop and have Adrian massage it on you every night
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But then what is it like a little for plays?
02:20
Exactly. It's like,
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but I need to say this to my wife.