more options are always good for edge cases.

1. some women can't take birth control pills, and the other birth control options have downsides as well.

2. nothing is 100% effective, so if you want to be even more sure that you won't make babies, both pertners being sterlized is extra security.

3. some men would like to be sterile but are hesitant to have a vasectomy done. They are generally simple but they don't always go well.

4. for younger single men in casual encounters, you can never be sure of the other's birth control status. I'm sure there are men who would like the option to be in control of their sperm.

Male birth control has to be safer and have fewer side effects than letting women carry the burden of birth control.

This first phase study shows no side effect.

It seems you are underestimating the value for men to not be responsible for unwanted babies and to have more control of their own contraception.

Male birth control has to be safer and have fewer side effects than letting women carry the burden of birth control.

I mean, I don’t think this is such a high bar to pass.

Pregnancy is bad but I’d argue the consequences of 18 years of unwilling parenthood far outstrips the consequences of 9 months of pregnancy. The consequences for those 18 years impact both parties.

Furthermore, men have almost zero agency of what happens in the case of an unintended pregnancy. A man can’t say, “this would ruin my life, I am going to choose not to have the baby.”

That makes the risk quite high for a man, IMO, and the only way to take agency over that risk is male birth control.

Thing is, female birth control is easier, because female body already has mechanism that stops fertility, we just invoke it on demand. Male body basically keeps on making sperm till death. It's usually issues with erection or something that acts like "it's time to stop buddy" than anything else. It's not really about male privilege, patriarchy or whatever, it's just biology.

Condom has worked the best as physical barrier and some injectable gels in vas deferens, but they are highly impractical application wise. Most of hormonal methods didn't work well at all.

Except there are many women who would like to get pregnant and trap the sperm doner into child support. I think many men would love to be in charge of their futures. Condoms can fail or be sabotaged.

Edit: Downvote me all you want but in the name of equality there should be options for males to take if they want to give their female partners the choice not to take anything. Not saying women don't deserve better options but there should be options for males too.

Responsible Lemmy users aside, the general public may surprise you — the stories I get from my outpatient healthcare-worker spouse are abysmal enough

Also just solo. No mess is like back to those careless days where there was no mess and you could do it like 2-3 times

No it does not, often making a mess on her and seeing her swallow it (or him if that's your thing) is part of the fun. I'll shoot messy blanks on and in her all day.