Guys, if you had the opportunity to be on a male birth control, would you?

This can apply to many different types. The pill, a patch, vasectomy (reversible), etc. I often wish some of that pressure could be lifted off my shoulders. I have an IUD but beforehand, I CONSTANTLY worried about getting pregnant after having sex. I would worry so much that I'd actually make my period late, buy $100 worth of pregnancy tests, then once my period finally came, it felt like a velociraptor was tearing my insides apart.

Anyways, given the chance, would you?
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  • This is going to sound massively retrograde, but no, I would not. There is something elemental and instinctual about the idea of my being able to impregnate a woman when I have sex. It adds something primal to the sex and I would not want to be without that.

    In fact, from the time I lost my virginity at age 16 and spent about three weeks - probably needlessly - worrying about whether or not I had gotten my girlfriend pregnant - I hadn't - I always took the attitude that if I made a baby I would love him or her and the woman I had that baby with. I was thinking this at age 16 and I have never changed my mind.

    In fact, my girlfriend and I have lived together for 11 years and have three children together. The first two were unplanned pregnancies and I would not have had it any other way. In fact, my girlfriend and I are so haphazard about birth control that it is a wonder we don't have ten children. In fact, if my girlfriend told me tomorrow that she was pregnant, you would not be able to wipe the smile off my face.

    To be sure, I don't want to be too glib about this. I have gotten two other women pregnant. One had a miscarriage and never told me she was pregnant and I only found out years later. The other had an abortion without telling me and it is still the most painful thing in my life. There is not a day that goes by that I don't miss my baby and wish that I could hold him or her - I don't even know if I had a son or daughter - and tell him/her how much I love him/her.

    So I get it. It is serious. I may even have, given my "wild and crazy" younger days a child that i don't know about. All I can say is that if I do, I would want to be a part of that child's life and I would care for him or her as I do the three little munchkins I already have.

    Still, male virility and female fertility have been the norm since the species came out and, for me at least - and maybe this is just an eccentricity - the thought of getting a woman pregnant, of planting my seed in her, is a wild turn-on. I love that feeling of bonding with a woman at an almost animal level and I love children and birth control of any kind - let alone for men, would not be a winner for me.

    In nature, a man's job is to get a woman pregnant and it is a man's job to care for his baby and the mother of his child. So there it is.

    To be sure, I have used condoms and the like and some of the women I have been with have used birth control. My objection is more preference than a moral or philosophical objection and if a woman I was with wanted to use birth control of some form - me with a condom or her with whatever - I would do it.

    However, to go out and purchase something that fundamental and that - to put it bluntly - neutering of my manhood, I just would not do it. Sounds totally caveman I know. Guilty as charged and not even necessarily proud of it, but when it comes to sex I am, and happily my girlfriend is too, more animal than not.

    • Neutering your manhood LOL LOL, they only snip the thin line that provides the sperm to the seminal fluid. COWARD, you don't even know what a vasectomy is, look on GOOGLE. Cum everything is the same.

    • @Badballie Think you are missing the point. I want to know that I have the chance to make a baby. I am not so concerned with producing cum or not - except that as it is necessary toward the possibility of making a baby. Call me coward if you will. I'd rather be a whole man than a defective machine.

    • You should be living in the middle ages, make babies everywhere, so they can be fatherless. I do not have to that arrogant and consider myself as a macho kind of superman. I am a red-blooded male having no sperm makes me more of a man, love your wife like yourself, you clearly are not able to. You have a child at 56, by the time the child is a teenager, you will be dead, now a fatherless child you nincompoop, so puffed up with your manliness, to deny a child a father, you make me want to vomit.

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  • If there was an IUD equivalent for males, I would. By that I mean, equivalent in terms of sharing the following traits with the IUD:
    - one-time insertion/installation (?), that then lasts for at least 3 years
    - at least 99% efficacy rate
    - effects are *immediately* reversible upon removal
    - infertility risk among users is no higher than that of the general population
    - side effects that are no worse in nature nor probability of experiencing

    Ideally, I would like the burden of contraception use to be equally shared in my relationship. That said, using the best available option is much more important to me than equality. If there was a male contraception that matched the IUD (which would be ideal), it would be fairest for both of us to take our respective contraception (if doubling up offered extra security) or otherwise taking turns after each expiration (she takes the IUD until it expires, then I take my equivalent until it expires, repeat).

    However, if there never comes to be a male equivalent that is equally effective in my lifetime, I would indeed expect her to take the IUD, while I took no contraception. It would be unfair, yes, but we would be using the best available option, and I'd at least pay for it. (Unless of course there was something about her medical history that made her uniquely susceptible to the side effects of the IUD in particular.)

    Before anyone who reads this gets their panties in a twist, I would like to add that if there was ever a male contraception that *beat* the IUD, I would take it without expecting her to use contraception. My point is, it is immature to pass up the best available option, in favor of lesser options (like doubling up with pills and condoms), for the sake of equality. I hope my willingness to shoulder the burden alone, in the case that the best available BC in my lifetime does happen to be for males, spares me from being a hypocrite.

Most Helpful Girls

  • My boyfriend has made it explicitly clear he never has and never will use a condom because real men don't. He made me get an IUD before we started considering sex together. Given the opportunity, I would not make him use male birth control. Sex feels better without it, and I would be wronging him.

    • I hope you’re kidding. IUDs are incredibly painful to get and he MADE you do it. He put you through all that pain so he could feel more pleasure? Sounds like a winner.

    • Your boyfriend is an asshole

    • I agreed to it, don't worry. He wasn't going to break up with me if I didn't get one, I went for it because he insisted on it and I didn't feel like waiting until we got married. It was worth it.

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  • It's close to happening as there are many that are close to being approved by the FDA

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  • It had been years since j know of vasectomy.

    But I was and still am, too chicken to do it because I wonder if there will be pain and how my libido will be affected.

    TBH, despite having to cope with a libido like every minute, I fear I lose it. Such an irony! LOL!

  • If there's a safe male anti-conception solution that is 100% reversible and renders me as fertile as before when I stop, has no serious side-effects, sure, with pleasure. Until then, condoms are a good second best, love that they have double-use, both anti-conception and anti-std. It's not too bad of a solution in the end anyway.

  • Why not? Women take the pill, get injections etc. And it's not like theirs isn't without its risks and side effects.

  • I have always thought the responsibility should be shared - Even in a relationship if a situation could develop where you could take turns

  • If I was sexually active and they were not too expensive, probably. Two protections is better than one.

  • That would only matter in a long relationship, anyone doing casual sex should protect themselves not trust the other person to do it for them. Besides stds are what I am worried more about than pregnancies, and there is no pills that protects against them. So condoms it is.

    • You could be monogamous and get your girlfriend tested. I would use a condom too for sleeping around, but any long term sex partner would require both of us tested. I cou li d still give her HPV, but it would be accidental.

  • Had a vasectomy done... so I've been on birth control for a long time. Wouldn't have it any other way now!

  • Nope.

  • Man: R u on the pill
    Me: Bitch, are you?

    • Awesome 👌🏼

    • Love this!!

    • What's so empowering about this? All they're asking is if you're taking precautions as such option is only available for women. Getting implant is better. Bitch are you? What's so empowering here with such obnoxiousness? If men had such options available and women asked, simple yes and no would've sufficed. What would me throwing tantrums going to achieve?

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  • My wife and I go all natural.
    Once we have the family we want I will get a vascetomy.

  • No. I hate taking meds of any shape or form. If I'm not in excruciating pain, you won't see me taking anything, even if it means I'm dying.

  • I would opt for a reversible vasectomy. It's not complicated and doesn't involve taking a medication

    • Got bad news for you. vasectomies are not reversible.

    • They are, the modern procedure can be reversed although there is no guarantee of success

  • If there was a safe form of it. That would not effect me to badly in the long run. So that if the option to have kids. Was still there provided I stopped taking it for a while. Then I guess I would be open to the idea.

    Already have (twins) with my ex. So I am not sure if I ever plan to have more or not. Guess it depends on who I end up with and how much they want 1 or more.

  • Fact is if anything I’ll use a condom. If she doesn’t want to go there with me because of it then it just wasn’t meant to be.

  • My husband says yes if it was available

  • No because the side affects of that shit on guys ain't fun that's why they only have condoms for guys and all the other pills and shit for gals

  • Thinking of getting a vasectomy.

    By the way, it's not always reversible. It's a myth that it is completely reversible.

  • What would be the point? Nobody's fucking me, anyway!

  • I actually did. Vasectomy

  • If it were proven effective and safe yes. Preferably an implant so i didn't have to think about it.

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