No doubt to be marketed side-by-side with the morning after pill is:
‘Sperm-stopping’ male pill hope: “Scientists are developing a male contraceptive drug which stops the development process of sperm.”
“Yeah, baby, I’m on the pill”. Are there actually going to be takers for that line?
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I see you’re not up on your Judy Small songbook… http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiIPDEVICE.html
The I.P.D
(L. Tanner, Sue Edmonds)
I’ll sing you all a song about a wondrous new device
The nation’s latest contraceptive plan
That funny little object they call the IUD
Has recently been changed to fit a man
CHO: It’s the IPD, the IPD
It may not feel too good to you but it’s not hurting me
So every time the pain begins to fill your eyes with tears
Remember I put up with it for years
They tested it on whales and they tried it out on mice
They used it in the poorer parts of town
It’s the cleverest invention since the automatic lift
It’s guaranteed to never let you down (CHO)
It was proven to be safe for the average human male
Though testing showed some minor side effects
There were two died of infection and six were sterilized
But only ten percent were too depressed (CHO: By the…)
But you know some people are never satisfied
So scientists are working once again
They’ve got something even better than the good old IPD
It’s called the morning after pill for men
It’s the pill, it’s better than the IPD
It may not be too safe but we’ll just have to wait and see
So put away your worries and put away your fears
Remember I put up with it for years
It’s the IPD, . . .
copyright 1985 Hereford Music
Recorded by Judy Small
MC
That’s hilarious!
“…the precise molecular basis of its mechanism of action is unknown.”
This is one of those common disclaimers we hear in medicine all the time, and it should raise legitimate questions for ANY prospective medicant.
Now, couple that (no pun intended) with the male animal’s neurotic fear (read machismo) of the least interference with his reproductive performance, and you probably have a drug that is doomed to fail. That said, I have unlimited faith in the pharmaceutical industry’s ability to market almost anything.
Judy Small’s recording is right on target, and the uncomfortable truth is that women have always been more responsible about birth control than we men– most likely because their identities reside somewhere north of their bellybuttons.
I don’t think females being more responsible about birth control has to do with where their identity lies, but more practically with which of the two gets to carry and deliver a child if the precautions are incorrect.