Contraceptive Pill for Male? Guys, would you like one?
Hormonal contraception for men is reversible after a few months, a review of a prototype suggests.
A review of data from 30 trials on the hormonal contraception, involving a total of about 1,500 men, appears in Saturday’s issue of The Lancet, a medical journal in Britain.
Couples may not accept current methods of contraception for men – condoms, withdrawal and vasectomy – because they aren’t reliable or can’t be reversed easily.
“Hormonal male contraceptive methods could soon become widely available,” said the study’s lead author, Peter Liu of the ANZAC Research Institute of the University of Sydney, in Australia.
“These findings thereby increase the promise of new contraceptive drugs allowing men to share more fairly the satisfaction and burden of family planning,” he wrote in the journal.
Prototypes of the male “pill” contain the hormone androgen or androgen in combination with progestin. The contraceptives are designed to stop sperm production, similar to the way hormone therapies can suppress ovulation in women.
Source: cbc.ca
The results of the research is promising, but I think it will still take a long time before it appears in the market. That’s how research goes. 
Side effects of the pills have to be addressed for sure.
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