icheissesatch

Thanks! :)

I think shifting the burden of birth control from purely on women to a shared responsibility is something that should have been done long ago, luckily we're moving towards that goal now.

I was going to answer the original questions in the ama request but they have since been removed, I'll answer the ones I remember.

1) it lasted for a duration of one month and then the second study was a week long.

2) It definitely worked, I had to have my sperm levels checked before, during, and after the study.

3) It was a gel that was applied to my abdomen daily, after my shower (though future iterations, if it becomes a real thing, available to the public would not be in gel form)

4) I did not risk pregnancy even though I knew I was fine, it was a mental thing.

5) My balls do work, in fact, all my sperm levels were stronger after a week off the drug than they were prior to me starting the drug.

Exactly the case, invasive options, while they can be reversed, have a chance of not working, then you're stuck freezing sperm in case you want kids later. I'm not sure what my future holds, as it stands right now I don't plan on having kids, but if I was on this drug and I wanted to have kids, all I'd need to do is stop and bam, I'm fertile again. haha thanks for the upvote!

Well the way it is now, it is the women's responsibility to be on the pill, it's her responsibility to remember to take a pill each day, and go to the drug store and pay for it each month, and it isn't cheap. It's nice to be able to shift the responsibility from one person to the other, or make it a shared responsibility instead of just the women's duty. Also, there are those few examples of crazy women that lie and say they are on the pill when they're not and then they get knocked up so they could tie the guy to them (an extreme example yeah, but it happens every so often). It is just nice to have options.

I didn't notice any side effects. The purpose of the study was to test the blood pressure of men, because a handful experienced heightened blood pressure under the drug. My blood pressure, sex drive, etc were all pretty much the same.