Male Birth Control

So since I did my Wikipedia project on birth control and a lot of people had questions on male birth control and what’s going on with that, I thought I would make a blog post to let you all know what I have learned from some research on the topic. As of right now male forms of contraception include condoms, vasectomy and withdrawal. This is a lot smaller of a list compared to all the forms of contraception available for women. Research in male contraception has developed and male contraception trials are in the works. Male birth control is divided into two sections of hormonal contraceptives and non-hormonal contraceptives. Hormonal uses hormone supplements to stop the development of perm cells while non-hormonal uses more natural things to slow sperm production. Each of these contraceptives have many different medicines in clinical trial, researchers just haven’t quit found the perfect one. It is so difficult to get medicines approved it takes so much time and if one person out of thousands has the slightest of side effects to a certain trail then researchers have to start all over. For example there was testing for Gosssypol a non-hormonal contraceptive and in one fifth of the patients the effect was irreversible. In most the examples I read effects being irreversible was in all of them. This seems to be the main side effect of most of the male contraceptives being tested now. Hormonal contraceptive trial have had much more success, such as testosterone undecanoate the contraceptive efficacy was 96.7%. However, sperm rebound occurred in 6 men during efficacy phase. This is what I mean in that a medicine can be very successful but it only takes one person or in this case there were 6 to keep this from being available to men. I’m not saying that I think they should just make this available to men but I do think that medicine reacts different to every person and there is no way to every find the perfect medicine for everyone in the entire world. Researchers feel confident that they will find the right contraceptive soon but it is so unclear as to when that could be. It could be months or years. I think the most important part of this is that it is being done and is having human trials, which are a huge thing, and I firmly believe there will be male contraceptives in the future.