Contraceptive pills for men. Equal rights in the sexes?

Today, no one needs to be persuaded that a child should be welcome for both parents. However, contraception still remains the prerogative of the weaker sex. Unfortunately, the promises of pharmacists to release birth control pills for men have not yet come true. However, according to publications in the press, this grandiose event can be expected from day to day. In any case, more detailed information on this issue the reader will not hurt.

First, let's try to figure out what the effect of such drugs is based on.
Almost all the contraceptive pills for men work as an inhibitor, suppressing the activity of spermatozoa. Due to this effect, for a short period of time the possibility of fertilization of the oocyte is completely excluded. Authors of the discovery assure that birth control pills for men are absolutely safe and will not affect the genital function in any way.

A substance called JQ1 scientists can dramatically inhibit the production of spermatozoa, so the tablets will not need to be drunk daily, as is the case with drugs intended for women.

Let us note that contraceptive for men is an old, desired goal of scientists of many countries. However, this drug is due to its appearance in the light of pure accident. American pharmacists were looking for a cure for cancer, but clinical trials revealed slightly different properties in the invented substance. Experiments on rodents have shown that the synthesized drug is able to suppress their reproductive function.

In parallel, studies in this area were conducted by two pharmaceutical companies from Europe: Schering (Germany) and Akzo Nobel (Holland). However, scientists from Israel, Moldavia, Great Britain and many other countries contributed to the development.

Hormonal preparations for the fair sex were invented more than half a century ago, but the birth control pills for men proved to be much more difficult. The female body produces only one egg for the entire cycle of ovulation with a length of 28 days. Male "shoots" up to a thousand spermatozoa in just a minute. However, scientists still managed to synthesize drugs that are guaranteed to suppress their activity.

According to doctors, contraceptive pills for men will not replace completely women's drugs, which are quite popular today. But they will be useful to those couples in which the lady for health reasons does not have the opportunity to use contraceptives.

Most modern women are ready to share with the man the responsibility for the planning of procreation. They justly believe that it is up to both to decide which contraceptive pills to take and to whom. However, about 85% of ladies claim that they do not rely too much on men's punctuality.

Scientists in Israel are already developing non-hormonal tablets, which will need to be taken quite rarely - only 4 times a year. This drug reduces the production of protein, which is necessary for the fertilization of the egg. After its abolition, the reproductive function is completely restored. But this does not happen immediately. The control group of chimpanzee males took about four months. Only after such a long period the ability to reproduce was restored.

Sociological surveys conducted in the USA showed that 70% of men are ready to take non-hormonal contraceptives. However, psychologists are sure that the representatives of the stronger sex are somewhat disingenuous, giving an affirmative answer. Firstly, men, especially the young, do not like any pharmacological means very much. Even vitamins and bioadditives they take not too readily. Also,
For the majority of men the ability to fertilize and sexual power are very close concepts.