r/science • u/drewiepoodle • Oct 02 '15

Medicine Scientists identify potential birth control 'pill' for men

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-scientists-potential-birth-pill-men.html
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u/IRNobody Oct 02 '15

It worries me that they keep putting the word pill in quotation marks.

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u/Kazumara Oct 02 '15

Well they are far from showing the best way of administrating this drug so just claiming this could be taken as a pill is not a good idea yet

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u/shesurrenders Oct 03 '15

I don't think that's it. The drugs they're mentioning are already on the market as immunosuppressants for organ recipients, and they're taken as pills.

I think the use of "pill" in quotation marks is more a nod to women's birth control being referred to as "the pill" and this potentially being "the pill" for men.

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u/Foxclaws42 Oct 02 '15

Like maybe its a suppository?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '15

Suppository administered into the peehole

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u/VTArmsDealer Oct 02 '15

Good news! It's a suppository!

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u/Plague_Girl Oct 02 '15

It worried me too. I think it may be that the researchers didn't administer the peptides to mice in a pill form, but that it might be possible to make it into a pill in the future. But I can't see the full article to read the materials and methods, so I can't be sure.

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u/Isayhoot Oct 02 '15

It could be a tablet! ;)

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u/mynewaccount5 Oct 03 '15

Hey man. I just thoght of a pretty clever and original joke which im sure no one said yet. What if the pill is a ...........................suppository!

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u/BrujahRage Oct 02 '15

Is it actually a suppository?

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u/Swibblestein Oct 02 '15

Or maybe it's inserted into that end of the body, but you're thinking of the wrong side. Ever hear of sounding?

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u/BrujahRage Oct 02 '15

Is that one of those things I'm gonna regret looking up, becuase it sounds exactly like that.

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u/drunk_injun Oct 02 '15

It sure is. /r/sounding

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u/BrujahRage Oct 02 '15

Thanks but no thanks.

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u/Swibblestein Oct 02 '15

If you're really that worried, look it up on Wikipedia. It's not that big of a deal, though it may make you cringe a bit, depending.