Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men may come out in as soon as two years.
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[url]http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/[/url] (Click for full article, it's a bit longer.)
[release]One Saturday in January 2010, Devendra Deshpande left his home in the Delhi suburbs and drove into the city to get a vasectomy. He was 36 years old, married with two young kids, and he thought it was time.
He arrived at the hospital around midday and met Hem Das, then the hospital’s chief vasectomy surgeon. Das had an interesting question for Deshpande. Rather than receive a traditional vasectomy, would Deshpande like to be part of a clinical trial for a new contraceptive procedure?
Das explained that the new method did not have some of the drawbacks associated with a regular vasectomy. First, sperm would still be able to escape Deshpande’s body normally, which meant he would be free of the pressure and granulomas that sometimes accompany a vasectomy. More important, it could be reversed easily, with a simple follow-up injection.
“I am normally not adventurous when it comes to getting myself operated on,” Deshpande deadpans. But the new method sounded good to him, and according to the published studies he read on his smartphone in the waiting room, it seemed safe. He gave his wife, Vinu, a call, and although she sounded nervous on the phone, she said she was fine with it. Deshpande decided to try the experimental method.
When his turn came, he lay down on the table, and an orderly draped his lower body with a green surgical cloth that covered everything but his scrotum. Then Das moved in with a needle containing a local anesthetic. Once the drug had taken effect, Das gathered a fold of skin, made a puncture, and reached into the scrotum with a fine pair of forceps. He extracted a white tube: the vas deferens, which sperm travel through from the testes to the penis. In a normal vasectomy, Das would have severed the vas, cauterized and tied up the ends, and tucked it all back inside. But rather than snipping, Das took another syringe, delicately slid the needle lengthwise into the vas, and slowly depressed the plunger, injecting a clear, viscous liquid. He then repeated the steps on the other side of the scrotum.
The procedure is known by the clunky acronym RISUG (for reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), but it is in fact quite elegant: The substance that Das injected was a nontoxic polymer that forms a coating on the inside of the vas. As sperm flow past, they are chemically incapacitated, rendering them unable to fertilize an egg.
If the research pans out, RISUG would represent the biggest advance in male birth control since a clever Polish entrepreneur dipped a phallic mold into liquid rubber and invented the modern condom. “It holds tremendous promise,” says Ronald Weiss, a leading Canadian vasectomy surgeon and a member of a World Health Organization team that visited India to look into RISUG. “If we can prove that RISUG is safe and effective and reversible, there is no reason why anybody would have a vasectomy.”
But here’s the thing: RISUG is not the product of some global pharmaceutical company or state-of-the-art government-funded research lab. It’s the brainchild of a maverick Indian scientist named Sujoy Guha, who has spent more than 30 years refining the idea while battling bureaucrats in his own country and skeptics worldwide. He has prevailed because, in study after study, RISUG has been proven to work 100 percent of the time. Among the hundreds of men who have been successfully injected with the compound so far in clinical trials, there has not been a single failure or serious adverse reaction. The procedure is now in late Phase III clinical trials in India, which means approval in that country could come in as little as two years.[/release]
tl;dr: Method consists of making it so that semen that travels through your vas deferens (tube which semen goes through) is chemically decapitated. Easily reversible.
In other news, researches have also recommended being an active member of Facepunch as birth control.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;30184531]
In other news, researches have also recommended being an active member of Facepunch as birth control.[/QUOTE]
God damnit, you ninja'd me in the first fucking post
There should be a rule against this or something
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;30184531]
In other news, researches have also recommended being an active member of Facepunch as birth control.[/QUOTE]
Yeah its pretty effective.
Forever alone :saddowns:
I may consider getting this. I've had a girl pull the whole "I'm pregnant so you have to stay with me" shtick before. Granted, she was lying, on birth control, [i]and[/i] we used condoms every time, but this would just be extra insurance.
So basically FPers can jack off and end with a clean keyboard yay
I cringed when I read the description of the procedure.
I get uncomfortable it when a plastic fork by my dick, let alone getting a sharp needle to my balls.
It's like an on/off switch for your vas deferens. Cool.
[QUOTE]then his turn came, [b]he lay down on the table, and an orderly draped his lower body with a green surgical cloth that covered everything but his scrotum.[/b] Then Das moved in with a needle containing a local anesthetic. Once the drug had taken effect, Das gathered a fold of skin, made a puncture, and reached into the scrotum with a fine pair of forceps.[/QUOTE]
don't know why but I thought of this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzkC2g4Xas[/media]
[QUOTE=alphatwo;30185574]I cringed when I read the description of the procedure.
I get uncomfortable it when a plastic fork by my the dick, let alone getting a sharp needle to my balls.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I can't stand when it a plastic fork by my the dick.
On topic, that's actually really interesting.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30185540]So basically FPers can jack off and end with a clean keyboard yay[/QUOTE]
Did you even read the tldr?
This isn't a vasectomy. Semen still passes through, but it'll be completely impossible to fertilize eggs with it.
This actually sounds like a great idea. I've talked several times with my wife about getting a vasectomy in the future after we had kids seeing as how it was safer and easier for me to get it done as opposed to the methods available for women.
[QUOTE=Jedi_Rayne;30185737]This actually sounds like a great idea. I've talked several times with my wife about getting a vasectomy in the future after we had kids seeing as how it was safer and easier for me to get it done as opposed to the methods available for women.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't be surprised if this started research on a similar level of logic/method for women.
[QUOTE=alphatwo;30185574]I cringed when I read the description of the procedure.
I get uncomfortable it when a plastic fork by my the dick, let alone getting a sharp needle to my balls.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, fuck everything about this.
I'll stick with condoms.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30185540]So basically FPers can jack off and end with a clean keyboard yay[/QUOTE]
No, sperm still comes out but its 'dead' already.
I'd rather use a condom.
I was hoping for a temporary contraceptive pill for men.
I always thought the vasectomy was a rather primitive way of doing things. This seems to be a step in the right direction
This is pretty awesome, the fact that it's reversible means anyone can do it whenever, have all the fun you want without worrying about babies(because you might end up with a crazy bitch that punctures your condom) and when the time comes, reverse it.
[QUOTE=~ZOMG;30186004]I was hoping for a temporary contraceptive pill for men.[/QUOTE]
Pills are more likely to have side effects, and I wouldn't exactly trust a pill to kill sperm safely and effectively.
If this turns out to work, I'm going to get one when it's available here. I've had pregnancy scares with my current girlfriend enough to be at this point.
Yes, I used condoms, condoms break, scares happen.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;30187236]Pills are more likely to have side effects, and I wouldn't exactly trust a pill to kill sperm safely and effectively.[/QUOTE]
Surgery can have much worse side effects. Also the pill doesn't have to kill them just make them inactive.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;30184727]Yeah its pretty effective.
Forever alone :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
You'll find that big 300lb black man to cradle you in his massive yet gentle arms one day.
One day.
[QUOTE=DELL;30187577]Surgery can have much worse side effects. Also the pill doesn't have to kill them just make them inactive.[/QUOTE]
According to the article, the surgery has been proven 100% effective so far with no complications.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30185540]So basically FPers can jack off and end with a clean keyboard yay[/QUOTE]
You should've listened in sex ed.
I don't like the word decapitated used when we are talking about penises.
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;30184531]tl;dr: Method consists of making it so that semen that travels through your vas deferens (tube which semen goes through) is chemically decapitated. Easily reversible.[/QUOTE]
wouldn't that mean your semen gets jammed up in there as you.. fap and stuff.
that can't be good.
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hell why did i even come here without reading anything but the tl;dr and some replies.
I don't like the idea of restorability, maybe they could still have an irreversible version of this treatment for people who never ever want too have children but don't want the downfalls of a vasectomy?
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;30187242]If this turns out to work, I'm going to get one when it's available here. I've had pregnancy scares with my current girlfriend enough to be at this point.
Yes, I used condoms, condoms break, scares happen.[/QUOTE]
True that, I swear if I have to pay for yet another pregnancy test... (Lousy non-latex condoms, I swear they're more fragile than normal condoms)
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[QUOTE=U.S.S.R;30188350]I don't like the idea of restorability, maybe they could still have an irreversible version of this treatment for people who never ever want too have children but don't want the downfalls of a vasectomy?[/QUOTE]
Just... don't get it reversed?
[quote]The substance that Das injected was a nontoxic polymer that forms a coating on the inside of the vas. As sperm flow past, they are chemically incapacitated, rendering them unable to fertilize an egg.
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man what the fuck that's insane
Birth Control for men sounds like a nice idea. But will it work?
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