Male+Birth+Control

Keenan Thompson

Male Birth Control

History Male birth control is exactly what the name of it states. MHC also known as a male contraceptive that decrease sperm count, so they are incapable of producing sperm that will allow two individuals to create a pregnancy. According to MSN reporter John Schieszer, “Female contraceptives use hormones, estrogens and progestin’s, to shut off the release of eggs to prevent pregnancy. Male hormonal contraceptives work pretty much the same way: hormones, such as testosterone and progestin’s, are used to turn off sperm production.” For a number of years researches have been trying successful in developing a male contraceptive in the form of pill, patch, and injection. The actual contraceptive hasn’t been approved to be released just yet, but is soon to be looked forward to in the near future. Dr Christina Wang has been heading this project of clinical trial for a number of years at UCLA of medicine. Wang and her colleagues found that the mixtures of progestin and androgen implants are safe, effective, inexpensive and entirely reversible. The difference between both male and female contraceptives is that it will be more of a less risk when it comes to males, which is why this would be a important factor of the drug. In 1960 the FDA approved the use of female birth control. With the release of this drug it has had its downfalls and problems, and scientist have been testing to see if it would work better on men because of the amount of different hormones. There has been numerous research and studies on male contraceptives all around the world. Men can produce 1000 sperm per second, “says John Amory, a specialist in male reproduction at the University of Washington, Seattle.” Thus, many researchers created the male birth control. Background “Contraceptive pills are useful for preventing pregnancy is quite effective; approximately 99.7 percent accuracy level of protection against pregnancy“(Menaghan 35). The question is why it taken researcher has so long to develop this male contraceptive is mainly because of the lack of funding and who would benefit more from the product. Another factor in the creation to the medication is how it was easier to create contraceptives; Men after ejaculation produce over 120 million sperm cells. It would be too difficult to try and figure out a substance to affect the male’s sperm count. With females it was easier because woman on have one egg that is produced once every month. Meriggiola professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. Meriggola and staff came up with the solution; combined administration of cyproterone acetate (CPA) and testosterone enanthate (TE) in suppressing spermatogenesis. After undergoing plenty of time sensitive research with actual human beings in the studies weekely examinations of the male’s body and physical features the doctors found that some patients contract few side effects. The assumption can be made that the problem came from the mixture of substances or a reaction to the one of the two substances. Male birth control and sexual communication Most males probably wouldn’t use the product if it were to come out tomorrow because of the female contraceptives and its issues of females becoming decease and other harmful symptoms that come with the contraceptive when it first came out. Also I think because of society and the social norm if and when the actual male contraceptive comes out the expense would have to be lowered as well as information need to be explained the purpose of the item is and how much. It isn’t normal to for a male to take any substances in America that helps prevent birth control. With the creation of this pill people could consider that because males are protected it could decrease the use of condoms and increase the number of STD’s and STI. Majority of males wear protection because they are afraid of pregnancy, not the possibility of STD’s don’t occur at times. Male birth control can either go negative or positive depending on intentions. The positive aspect would be the decrease in pregnancy but possible the increase of STD’s. Females are put on birth control at a young age how would this effect the way a teenage boys talk to their mothers and fathers about birth control. Side effects There are side effects that were listed in specific research groups that created and or attempted to come up with a male contraceptive. With majority of researcher results to side effects some mall commonalities that were included weight gain, headaches, sweating at night, and hormonal imbalances? Other effects that have occurred doing research of volunteers is that they developed azoospermic, and oligozoospermic. Azoospermic is when an individual male can’t produce enough sperm. Oligozoospermic is the formation of the process of creating sperm is lacking its normal formation. Societies Opinion According to the journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism talks about how the creation of this event will allow males to be more in involved in the decision process of creating a child and helps prevent from pregnancy increasingly with males involvement of the drug once approved by the FDA. Forty year old Scott Hardin states “he is happy that men have a choice to participate in taking birth control medication in society. He also states “I wouldn’t use the productive even though it looks promising for men in society.” The drug is known and because of past issue learned about women’s contraceptive it leaves men skeptical for the future if male contraceptive. “I would rather rely on a solution that doesn’t involving medicating myself and the problems women have had with hormone therapy doesn’t make me anxious to want to sign on to taking a hormone-type therapy, in which Hardin is single and a college administrator. References

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