The Market will Solve
Well at least if there is demand. And, apparently, there is demand.
“Demand is the smallest hurdle,” says Elaine Lissner of the Male Contraception Information Project, part of Our Bodies Ourselves, a Boston-area women’s health-education organization. “Basically a majority in pretty much every country is interested in male contraception.”
Yep, that’s right a “male pill” may soon be coming.
Researchers are having difficulties though.
The male machinery that produces sperm — at a rate of 1,000 per heartbeat — is incredibly hard to disable.
So how long until men achieve equality with women in this overlooked area of gender unbalance?
“I’ve been saying ‘five to seven years’ for about 20 years,” Bremner [chairman of the UW School of Medicine] admits. “I will again say ‘five to seven years.’ I just want to give you a dose of reality.”
If the demand is there, it’s only a matter of time until it happens.
Exit question: When it becomes available, will you use it?
on October 1st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
But have they even begun to examin the reproductive potency of the “sperm chair”? 1,000 per heartbeat is for chumps.