Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• Birth control for men in one injection
  Woohaa!
  (tags: contraception men)

Comments

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

By this they actually mean one injection EVERY MONTH. So the headline's completely misleading.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

In theory, bloody brilliant. I would like to know of the link to taking such an injection and baldness though.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

I told myself (and Morag) I wasn't going to follow the comments and get annoyed, because this is a big step forward in the way that society possibly looks at responsibility for contraception, so ultimately it's a good thing, but... argh! Are we really going to have to slog through all this crap first?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I think it's about damned time you guys had the kind of 99% reliable option that us women have. Shame its hormonal, but still, progress. Will be a welcome extra safety net for those who do not fancy being caught out by condom accidents, sickness (if you throw up the Pill it don't do much) or female deception (this last possibility having always struck me as a rare, but most unfair asymmetry).

[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

They started with 1045 volunteers and only 100 finished the study, not what I'd call a startling success.
Since it's based on testosterone there are a wide variety of common side effects which being pessimistic is possibly why so many failed to finish the study.
Much more work is needed but indeed a solution should be found.

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

I think it's the "injection once a month" thing that would put most people off. A pill once a month, or an implant, I'd be much more OK with.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I knew there were going to be responses to this thing that would make me want to hit people. I didn't realise they would be people on my own friends-list.

*Glowers*

(not you)

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Haven't they been on about this for a few years now? Anyway, they should bloody hurry it up, me having had a very interesting conversation with my previous-lesbian-now-seeing-a-man friend going on the pill when she didn't want to. The whole conversation with her about it had me gritting my teeth in rage, yet I think if this option existed he would happily take it.

Mind, I was idly looking at the ASDA own brand lube in the supermarket the other day and wondered why, when I'm all OK not having sex of a certain type if my lady partner doesn't want it like that, this is apparently never, ever, ever an option with hetero-sex. I think this might be a pub discussion..

Also, are condom failure rates significantly low? Is the pill 100%?

I love how clueless I am about all of this :D

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

This = STI rate going through the roof.
(Look at the stats for over 50s and STI because they think they're safe as they can't conceive.)