Male Contraceptive Butt Shots – A Connotation To Condom-Free Existence

Well, the tide has turned, much to the favor of womankind, with Scottish researchers out with a novel ‘pill’ that dramatically lowers sperm count amongst men. This is an indicator of times when men would be entailed to share the birth-control lumber with women.

Professor Richard Anderson hailing from Edinburgh University is on a hunt for agreeable male participants for trying out the path breaking hormone jabs comprising of progesterone and testosterone to be administered on the butt region in two monthly intervals.

The scientists are optimistic about the efficacy of this form of contraceptive treatment that according to them far surpasses the working efficiency of even condoms or for that matter the female pill.

It avers to reducing male sperm count from over twenty million sperm/ml to zilch, and to below 1 million among others.

Professor Anderson stated that based on the success rate of this trial; there were imminent plans of promoting the injection as a male contraceptive. He further stated that the surveys been conducted in this regard have shown to be quite encouraging – and especially had upbeat overtones from women. Major populaces of women that have since long been bearing the reproductive and birth-control burden, consider it long overdue that men too followed suit.

Though not all men might show keenness on getting jabbed, there surely would be a market for making this kind of treatment obtainable.

Anderson further added that there have been no grave side-effects foreseen from the one-year long spanning trial run by the WHO. The effects due to the hormonal injections were additionally guaranteed to be totally reversible.

A Family Planning Association speaker stated that it was crucial that there is on-going study that endeavors at offering men wider array of contraceptive options. However, it is important that all newly evolved contraceptives undergo stringent testing to ascertain their complete safety and effectiveness.

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