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[-] humdrumgentleman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Friendly reminder of the core problem: medical treatments are all balanced against the risk of what it counteracts.

Undergoing physical and chemical changes to grow another creature inside you and have it damage everything on the way out is pretty risky. Female birth control only has to be less risky than that.

A male has zero physiological risk from impregnating someone. Therefore, anything except a miracle drug with high efficacy and almost zero side effects is going to stall at the trial stage.

On another note, that speaks to how safe and effective vasectomies are.

[-] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

I will say this as often as I can, getting the ol snip snip was the best decision I've ever made.

[-] TK420@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Who doesn’t love cream pies!?!?!?!

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Do you have kids or did you never want them?

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Written by someone who has never had to pay child support.

[-] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah zero psychological risk is a bit of an overstatement. Zero physical maybe, but there's definitely psychological risks, and I'm not even thinking about child support

Edit: I can't read, it says physiological and I'm just deficient in the reading

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Have you ever had a toddler hit you over the head with a plastic bat? There IS physical risk in raising a child.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

They said Physiological not Psychological. There's a considerable difference between those two words.

[-] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My bad, I can't read 🤦

[-] axus@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago
[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I meant their meanings, rather than their spellings lol.

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 0 points 4 months ago

There are also plenty of medical reasons for even sexually inactive women to take hormonal birth control. This isn't only about pregnancy, which as you say can have all sorts of physical consequences.

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