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Article Series: Birth Control
What Are My Birth Control Options?
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Male Birth Control Methods
Yes, male birth control methods are simple
enough and yet men still don't get it. There are only three
male contraception methods, although there's news of creating
a hormonal contraceptive pill for male but the development
of the drug is still underway. So we are down to three male
birth control methods for now.
Condoms,
vasectomy, and withdrawal. These are the only three
contraceptives that men have to worry about. But that number
we can still narrow down. Vasectomy is often not an option
taken by males since they often believe that the procedure
is irreversible. For your information, the procedure is reversible.
But still this method needs the man to be lying on his back
on the operating table and going under the knife, and such
an idea is usually not that appealing. Not that I blame the
man, though, nobody wants to be lying in an operating table
for whatever purpose.
The second method is withdrawal. You have a higher chance
of getting your partner pregnant with this method. This can
be effective when combined with the calendar method of birth
control. The calendar method if in case you don't know means
tracking the menstrual cycle of your partner and having intercourse
only during the first eight days of the cycle. This is quite
effective when you have only one partner but can be highly
risky if you engage in social sex.
With everything said about the other two methods, our last
method seems to be the most suited in all occasions and situations.
The use of condoms as a birth control method has a high enough
success rate. It is not 100% effective since no birth control
method really is perfect. And yet, men oftentimes fail in birth
control even if there are only three methods that they have
to choose from, or rather have a single method at their disposal
if you follow our argument.
However, there are studies being done which gives men other
options aside from those three. I really don't know if these
new contraceptive methods will help especially if men are in
general not paying much that attention to contraceptives anyways.
But
still, this development in male birth control is a welcome
one. Research has been looking at developing medications,
much like the female birth control pills, targeting the hormones
inside the male body. This hormonal contraception can be administered
as injections or as implants, although, like I said research
is still being conducted and experiments are being performed
to show if such contraceptives are possible.
This hormonal contraception for males will function as a limiting
catalyst to the production of the male sperm. The tricky aspect
of the research is finding a way of bringing back the sperm
count level to the amount that men will be considered as fertile.
Other
methods that they are looking for include implanting tiny
plugs called IVD (Intra Vas Device) to block the sperm;
applying heat to the testes to induce infertility; and even
the use of ultrasound waves as a means to control the production
of the sperm. The ultrasound waves will heat the testes which
will result to reducing the production of sperm. Again, the
issue is whether the sperm count will normalize after a few
months or even years.
Well,
regardless of the methods under study, the present male birth
control is quite simple enough so men should learn how
to use them or else...
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by KissMeGoodnight.com
: 2008
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