Male birth control

Do you ever wonder why men don’t get too concerned about birth control methods? You would imagine that because of the simplicity of male birth control methods men would form a bee line towards doing birth control but nothing is further form the truth. Birth control for men is a simple activity and it generally involves only three contraception methods. There is talk about a male pill but that one is neither here nor there.

Available male contraceptive methods

Male birth control

As far as men are concerned there are about three choices for them to make and they are withdrawal, condoms and vasectomy. Very few men ever consider vasectomy because as a birth control method it is always permanent and therefore irreversible. The method is simple in its application because a man only need to lie down on an operating table and undergo a cut with a knife and that is not what many men want to hear about.

Withdrawal

Withdrawal is actually a natural process but it is the riskiest of them all because there is the risk that is ever present that your partner could actually get pregnant. Perhaps the effectiveness of this program can only be affected if it is well combined with the calendar method that women also use for birth control. The calendar method involves a woman tracking the menstrual cycle and they can have intercourse without fear of conceiving during the first eight days of their period.

Condoms

The remaining birth control method for men is the use of condoms which appears to have a high degree of success. Statistics show that the success rate of using condoms as a birth control method for men is almost 100% effective bet there may be only limited chances that it is going to fail. However, men still find it difficult and they still end up failing in their efforts of birth control.

Hormonal contraception for men

Word on the street is that there is ongoing research in trying to look for a hormonal contraceptive that men can use just like women do with their pills so that they target the male hormones. It is said that such a hormonal contraceptive will be such that it will be administered in form of an implant or an injection and as it were there have been experiments to try and see if such an option was a viable one. Time will tell whether this is a possibility and if men, who have failed with only one method that is almost effective, will actually let such a project come to pass should it actually succeed.

Other methods of male birth control

Another male birth control method under development is an implantation of a minute plug known as the Intra Vas Device (IVD) which will block sperm by applying heat to the testes and create infertility as well as the use of ultrasound waves which will also be able to control the production of sperms. The challenge still remains with the developers of these methods and how long they will take to develop those ways.