The Men's Rights Movement: I Just Don't Get It.

[Zazzy]

I will readily admit to having succumbed to the bullshit idea that contraception is the women's responsibility - in the past anyway. But there's no way I'm letting a needle go there. I've had too many bad experiences with incompetent nurses to consider it (my bcg scar looks like a small calibre gunshot wound). I also have the memory of a retarded goldfish, so a male version of the pill is out. Give me a regular shot in the arm or an sub-dermal implant or something and I'm with you all the way. Until that becomes an option, I'll have to spend a fortune on condoms.

I know. It sounds awful. But it's 100% effective for UP TO 15 YEARS. This is like the holy grail of birth control. For what it's worth, I get IUDs (which only last 5 years), which have to be rammed up my cervix into my uterus, and it's so awful that I have to be medicated for each one. I HATE the procedure and spend a year before (no kidding) dreading the next one and trying to psych myself for the next 10 minutes of horror in the stirrups. And this is NOTHING compared to childbirth.

If you can think of another way to get a sperm blocker into the vas deferens other than a shot, let the researchers know.

If men are going to let such a promising, equalizing technology pass by because of a shot... then I don't see much validity in a complaint of reproductive inequality. There isn't much else on the horizon- the "male pill" has proved largely ineffective and with terrible side effects. We can hope that researchers do better, but given the hormonal problems with this in men, I'm not that hopeful.

But men should be raising the roof and screaming in the streets for such a birth control, and I'll be right there with them. Reproductive freedom and choice is a human right *edit* but that doesn't mean it comes without discomfort- it's nothing women don't endure already.