Guys, would you take a male contraceptive pill? Girls, would you want your partner to take it?

Yes I would take it. But if it were shown to be safe.

Why not?

I wouldn’t want my partner to take it until it’s been on the market for many years and proven to be safe, just as I wouldn’t have taken BC when it first came out (and actually, I still don’t take it).
Aside from safety, if my partner wanted to take it and ditch our other BC methods, I would be ok with it. We’re in a committed relationship and I don’t doubt that he’d be awesome if I got knocked up. However, if I were single and sleeping around or trusted my guy less, there’s no way in hell I’d believe a guy who said he was on the pill.

(Scrambles for wallet)
I mean…..I agree with likeradar. I don’t want to see that commercial down the road: If you or anyone you know has taken this drug, you may be entitled money…...

I think that the better question would be, “Girls, if there were a male contraceptive pill, and the guy who was hitting on you said he was taking it, would you believe him?”

I’d prefer that my partner get a vasectomy. No long-term drugs involved.

I must not be aware, but why all the questions regarding men lying about taking it? I thought the impression was that men typically do not want kids.

I can’t see that it can be healthy to take something like that, just as it’s not healthy to take women’s pills. I’m not in favour of contraceptive pills at all and won’t want my husband to take them.

@Blackberry: Ah, you’re assuming that a guy who has sex with a girl he’s never met would be honest enough to stick around if she got pregnant.

Assuming it was safe and there were no nasty side effects, i would most certainly want him to take it.

My husband hates taking pills, so I doubt he would want to take it. If once it was proven safe and effective he wanted to take them, I’d support him and have faith in him remembering to take them. I’d rather stick to other methods of birth control though.

Why do some people hate taking pills? It is like swallowing candy.

Even if it’s a suppository?

If it was safe, yes, I would definitely be okay with a partner taking that.

I would worry. And we still wouldn’t forego other measures if he chose to use it.
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@Blackberry Some people have very strong gag reflexes, psychosomatic or not. Also, it’s not uncommon for some people to forget to take meds one day, or a few days (maybe the person is forgetful, maybe it’s difficult to maintain a regular schedule, etc.,) so it’s not necessarily that a guy would be lying, but that he might not be entirely truthful. If he skipped a day, or several scattered, it might affect the way the drug works. The focus on lying is probably translated from girls/women who lie, (or similarly withhold the complete truth) for whatever reason. The assumption is that the same drawbacks and behaviors that are associated with women on the pill would exist for men on a pill.

@Blackberry My husband hates it because he would just rather not have to take pills on a regular basis. It’s not the actual swallowing the pills, it’s that he doesn’t like having to do it on a regular schedule. He’ll take pills when necessary, but he just prefers not to take them unless they are absolutely necessary.

Maybe these pills are not safe to ingest. look at what has happened to so many women who take/took bcp’s. They wound up with breast cancer.

Nope. No bcp’s for this male. I’d rather have the baby! ;)

Oh I see, thanks.

@Blackberry np. It was a good question.

I wouldn’t want him to take it just like I don’t want to take BC pills (I don’t think they’re as safe as people think) but for people that don’t worry about these things, of course the men should consider taking it.

I would want to commit myself to some research on the matter initially but so long as I was satisfied that they’re reasonably safe i’d be happy to take them.

@Rarebear “I think that the better question would be, “Girls, if there were a male contraceptive pill, and the guy who was hitting on you said he was taking it, would you believe him?””

Very good point. But the alternative is true for men as well. I know for a fact that my last boy would have taken pills if he could. Being the one taking the pills you can be more assured that nothing’s going to happen then if you have to trust that your partner’s handling it.

All things being equal I would want my partner to be willing to take them, but I don’t mind taking the pill myself. Maybe we could alternate so some times he’s on the pill and some times I am.

Where do i get them?! Yes i’d have him take them…

It was developed in Israel. Just saying.

@zen_ Lol!

@zen_ I don’t trust anything that comes out of Israel. Just saying.

It obviously didn’t’ do anything, but my brother’s college girlfriend made my brother take one of her birth control placebo pills every four days, just to be “fair.” I like that, sharing the responsibility.

@sliceswiththings ha ha

I would assume that both parties would take their pills, it would be like wearing two bullet proof vests, you would take the extra precaution to avoid getting shot, right lol?

@Blackberry lol, plus when all else fails you have an effective human shield no? :p

@Nially_Bob Indeed, there’s no way to avoid not having a kid after this.

@Blackberry Don’t underestimate the power of the immaculate conception.

@fundevogel Let’s say that immaculate conception is possible. Other oddities have happened when it comes to a pregnancy. If it were immaculate conception, it would only take a DNA test to prove that Blackberry wasn’t the father of the child.

@Pied_Pfeffer True, but you’d still have an unwanted god-fetus on your hands. I imagine the pro-lifers would come out in droves to protest a decision to terminate a miraculous pregnancy. Even the ones that think its ok to terminate in the case of rape or incest…which is kinda messed up since exception made for those that the pregnancy is beyond the mothers control also applies to immaculate conception.

@fundevogel I must have missed a point. Did someone say that the child would be unwanted? There have been and will continue to be women who become pregnant without a committed partner and keep the baby. There are others that carry to term and give it up for adoption.

@Pied_Pfeffer Well if you’re using two forms of birth control as @Blackberry said I think it’s safe to say it’s an unwanted pregnancy. Immaculate or otherwise.

@fundevogel Ah, thank you. I see your point. Keep in mind that there are women who still choose carrying to term over terminating the fetus when birth control is involved. Two examples: my sister’s dear friend had a vasectomy as a choice of birth control by the couple. When his wife became pregnant, he strongly felt that it wasn’t his. She opted to keep carry the child, despite the strained relationship it caused for 8 months. One of my best friends was told by her doctor that she would never bear a child after having ovarian cancer and overcoming it. When she found out she was pregnant, she was elated. Her son is a wonderful young man. Women plan not to have children, yet they sometimes change their mind once they find out that they are pregnant.

@Pied_Pfeffer Duly noted, there is no rule against changing your mind.

@fundevogel Thank you. And let us hope that there never is in the US. While a pro-choice advocate, I’d be challenged to live in a society where the government designated how many children I was allowed to have, planned or not.

Agreed. We don’t need the government all up in our lady business.