Male Birth Control Could Actually Happen. But Do Men Want It?
If the gel makes it to market, it will become the first hormonal contraceptive for men—more than a half-century after the first birth control pill was approved for women. Now the researchers just need to study how it works with Medrano and the other couples in the wild, hoping to prove that hormonal male birth control finally deserves to move out of the lab and into men’s lives. Now a professor at the University of Washington, Page oversees three studies of new contraceptive methods for men: a hormonal pill, which suppresses sperm production with a compound called DMU; an injection, modeled after the Depo-Provera shot for women; and the NES/T gel, which uses a type of progestin called nesterone in concert with testosterone.
Source: www.wired.com