Injectable Male Birth Control Effective for at Least 2 Years, Says Biotech Startup

Get a vasectomy. Takes 15 minutes, there's no pain and very little discomfort, and you get a doctor mandated three days to sit and play video games while your wife dotes on you.
- Fuck man, if I was going to stay married I wouldn't need a vasectomy, wife had a tubal when our 2nd was born by C-section - "as long as you're in there..."
  But now she wants a divorce for what she says is all my fault, but weirdly coincides with some health problems I was having... Like sorry I wasn't paying enough attention to you when I thought I might be dying...

ITT People begging for infertility in a birth rate crisis. I'll make up the slack with my kids I guess.
- What crisis? Why is growth better than steady state or contraction under the current circumstances?
  Plagues precede periods of human golden ages. Population booms precede periods of strife. You having lots of children is in no one's best interests, least of all your existing children.
  
  What crisis? Why is growth better than steady state or contraction under the current circumstances?
  because old people are expensive. australia currently has about 3% of the total labour force employed in aged care. in many other countries that use pensions rather than superannuation, the younger generation pays for the pensions of the older generation: a collapse in this means potentially catastrophic consequences
  3% number from: total health care workers = ~500k, total labour force = ~15m
  
  I'm a Christian so having children is my prerogative unless I want to become a monk. From a secular perspective antinatalism, hedonism, nihilism are all the death knell of a society. It's peak decadence and the sign of a culture in decline. To bandaid the problem the government has been piping in as many immigrants as possible. These immigrants have primarily economic motives. Therefore they do not understand nor are they invested in an ideological way in the American project. So if I (or we) want to live in an America that we recognize or aspire to live in we have to be progenitors of the next generation which means having and raising kids.

Any adult male walking around without a vasectomy is a goddamn fool.

The best birth control in my experience is only fucking other dudes.
Works every time.
- It works until it doesn't
  
  That’s what Viagra is for

Injectable where?
INJECTABLE WHERE?!?

If you're not interested in children or finished having them, I highly recommend a vasectomy using modern techniques. It's a quick outpatient procedure with very small incisions. While all surgery carries risk, it is very low risk. Best $100 (with insurance) I ever spent.
- My (now ex-) wife had a rough pregnancy, with our daughter ending up being born about 2 months premature. Her OB said that any future pregnancies would result in her being on bed rest after about 3 months. While we had originally wanted 2 kids, we made the decision that I should get snipped. Got it done on Thursday morning and spent the weekend playing video games with an ice pack on my nuts. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
  
  Yeah, it really is not that bad. I know it can be a hard sell to many men, though, understandably. It can take a bit of mental fortitude to allow someone to take a blade to your tenders. 🤣
- Just be careful and make sure you follow the testing protocols after your procedure. Some people have...redundancy.
  
  Definitely! Fortunately, I went to a doc who only performed vasectomies and had his own testing company that was included in the cost along with any follow-up that might be needed. They make it out to me, and I mailed it back, no problem.

I first heard about this about 10+ years ago. Still nothing on the market. I don’t think it will ever happen. Oppression of women is too important
- Huh, I had the reverse reaction--I heard about this 10+ years ago and I'm glad to finally be hearing something about it again, because it seemed like it had fallen off the planet for a while there. Human trials in the US is a huge leap forward.
  Oh wild, my next thought was "now we just need someone to get that 'bionic' lens replacement thing I heard about around the same time and then never again," and I looked it up and there's a report from them from this month about an upcoming human trial. That's a lot worse than finding out the trials of the RISUG thing have been running for two years now, but it's still pretty exciting. I probably won't be able to afford it, though. https://ocumetics.com/message-from-ceo-april-2025/
- Buddy they're in human trials with the FDA to bring a male pill to the market, and this startup is selling an injection. Idk what you're on about.
  
  Buddy, Vasagel was announced in 2011 and has since not released anything to market. It's been literal decades with nothing on RISUG actually being viable.

How is this different from Vasalgel, which has been in trials for years?
- This one has a different person trying to make money.
- How did the trials go?