I wish there was more options for males but I understand it’s easier to stop one monthly egg then millions of sperm

A man’s body produces new sperm everyday - it’s not that easy. 🤷🏼♀️

I think the one who doesnt want to get pregnant should worry about it. You're in charge of your own body.

Don’t think it should be left down to the women anyway never have

I know they're working on male birth control which is great. I think we should focus on both, as well as sex education in school on how to properly use condoms and different forms of birth control, as well as providing easy access to these things. Ultimately if a man really wants to prevent pregnancy, he will use condoms instead solely relying on his female partner(s).

Your hormone balance is very very delicate. Pumping synthetic sex hormones into your bloodstream has tons of known side effects. It pushes all your other hormones out of balance. That’s why for so many women, hormonal birth control affects their weight, their mood, their libido, their sleep, their appetite, their vaginas, their skin, their digestion, and so many more things that don’t even reach the threshold of conscious attention (like adrenal glands and liver function). Hormones reliably change everything. It’s just a matter of whether you notice (or how much you notice). Hormonal birth control is a less-than-great solution for women; but it allows us sexual freedom. So we make the trade. But that doesn’t mean it’s GOOD to take medically unnecessary hormones. It just makes it a trade-off we’ve accepted. Men, on the other hand, are lucky to have a much healthier solution. Condoms work great, and are easy, harmless, discrete, and universal. Why on earth would we want to start giving men a LESS healthy solution ? In order to make them more “equal” to women? Out of fairness? Uhhh.... I’m sorry but if I were a dude, the “fairness” argument would not convince me to start taking hormones.

That point is actually not really an argument in this discussion imo. Because a man produces way more sperm than a woman does eggs the science behind a male contraceptive is more complex and complicated to realise. Not saying there shouldn’t be focus on male contraceptives, but this seems kind of a counter argument 🤷🏻♀️

I do think there are a lot of methods for contraception out there, you have to take your pick. I dont think it needs to be focus more or women or men. It should be a choice that a couple should make. Pills work for some people, vasectomy for others, so as i said, couples choice.

I wouldn’t say more. I’d support male birth control options and equal focus.

From a physiological perspective, it seems like science would have an easier time developing a male birth control than a female one. And in that regard, they have dropped the ball for decades. Women's monthly cycles are filled with hills and valleys of different hormones needed to produce one single egg, while men's "cycles" are basically a straight line of hormones day in and day out. But history has shown us that consequences of sex (i.e., pregnancy) is always the woman's fault, regardless of the fact that a man was required for that fetus/baby to develop in the first place. Which means birth control is also a woman's issue. Thanks, patriarchy.