A trial is set to test a new hormonal contraceptive for men in 400 couples across the globe (60 in the UK and 340 in nine international locales). In the study, University of Manchester researchers will initially give male volunteers ages 18 to 45  up to four courses of injections of a combination of two hormones, testosterone undecanoate and norethisterone enantate, over six months. Both hormones have already been tested in trials for safety and were shown to cause only mild side effects in a small group of participants.

The couples will then be asked to rely on the hormonal method … Read More

Researchers in China may have succeeded in developing what people have dreamed about for centuries: effective, reversible male birth control that has no serious side effects (at least in the short-term).

Consisting of 500 mg of testosterone undecanoate in tea seed oil, this experimental contraceptive injection was tested on 1,045 healthy males, aged 20-45 years old, for 30 months. Each study participant had fathered a child within the two years before the study began. Their female partners were between 18 and 38 years old. All had normal medical histories. 7 Signs He May Have Spring Fever

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According to our good friends over at the Daily Bedpost, there is a male birth control on the horizon. The pill is due out next year and reduces sperm count by like 98% and causes men to gain muscle mass. It needs a few months to become effective and a few months to become potent again after quitting the treatment. Read about more ins and outs of the pill at Daily Bedpost.

Big pharma has been trying to create a ‘pill’ for men since . . . forever. Most of the pills end up having … Read More

From China Daily

Doctors in Guangzhou have developed a new birth control method for men that could be made available to the public starting next year.

The surgery involves making a small incision along the testicles. Doctors then place a tiny tube, about the size of a match, into the opening.

The tube functions as a filter that blocks sperm, said Wu Weixiong, the director of Guangzhou Family Planning Technology Center.

The surgery has already been patented, and the health department will promote it as soon as it is approved by the National Food and Drug Administration.

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From WMTM.com

Dan Lyke has never wanted children, so his decision to have a vasectomy was an easy one.

Lyke, 39, of Lagunitas, Calif., had a vasectomy seven years ago. He only wishes that he had done it sooner.

"Sometime in my early 20, I went from 'not in the foreseeable future' to 'never,'" said Lyke, who is single. "I've always seen children as an awful lot of work, probably because my parents went so out of the way in their raising of me and my siblings."

Lyke is similar to the 500,000 American men who decide each year that … Read More