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Posted by Hemos on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:00PM from the what-about-a-male-morning-after dept.

Blahbooboo3 writes "Men concerned about contraception may soon be able to use the male equivalent of the Pill, without the potential side-effects of a drug based on altering the balance of sex hormones. The drug, called Adjudin, works by disrupting the interaction that takes place in the testicles between immature sperm cells and the nurse cells responsible for nurturing sperm to maturity. The germ cells need to adhere to the nurse cells for sperm to properly develop, and the drug prevents this bond from forming. It looks like it will be a gel patch type of applicator."

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Totally pointless (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:01PM (#16643569)

This may well be the most irrelevant Slashdot story ever. No one who reads this site is in any position to use this pill. You can't get your hand pregnant.

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Re:Totally pointless (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:03PM (#16643607)

Yes, but it is possible to get your sister pregnant.

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Only 2 small side effects (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:05PM (#16643637)

Hair loss and erectile dysfunction.

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Re:Vascetomy is better (Score:5, Funny)

by eln ( 21727 ) * writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:09PM (#16643709)

Someday you're going to be looking at your overgrown lawn and wishing you didn't have to mow it. This is where kids come in.

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Call me hypocritical but... (Score:3, Funny)

by SkunkPussy ( 85271 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:09PM (#16643713) Journal

...there is no chance of me (as a man) ever using this!

They say no side effects, but look at "safe" female contraception which may lead to increased chance of certain cancers (although decreased chance of others).

Not that I'm going to stop my gf taking the pill though...

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Male pill (Score:4, Funny)

by Robber Baron ( 112304 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:11PM (#16643737) Homepage

Male pill...the man puts it in his shoe and it makes him limp.

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I overheard a girl saying the pill didn't work... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:15PM (#16643787)

...it kept falling out. I really hope she figured it out and stayed out of the gene pool.

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Re:Totally pointless (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:16PM (#16643805)

If you cohabitate with your hand in California for long enough it can take up to half of your assets.

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Early Adopters (Score:3, Funny)

by everphilski ( 877346 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:23PM (#16643885) Journal

Its the price of being an early adopter, just like purchasing a 1st gen Nintendo DS or a 1st gen MacBook... except with your body.

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Re:No side-effects? (Score:3, Funny)

by Dion ( 10186 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:34PM (#16644125) Homepage

Well it's better than the alternative...

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Re:My surprise is about to turn 3! (Score:3, Funny)

by lewp ( 95638 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:42PM (#16644289) Journal

A mortuary?

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Re:Vascetomy is better (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:59PM (#16644617)

Vote republican?

Aaaaaaaand I'm outta here.

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Re:Paternity Insurance (Score:3, Funny)

by crossmr ( 957846 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @02:12PM (#16644875) Journal

I always make them sign a paper if they tell me they're on the pill, it requires 2 witnesses and a video taped statement. I also have it notarized.

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Re:Paternity Insurance (Score:3, Funny)

by crossmr ( 957846 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @02:37PM (#16645407) Journal

My wife says whenever I do the dishes...so you know..infrequently ;)

I make her do far less paperwork.

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Re:Totally pointless (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @03:44PM (#16646715)

> As someone that was that age in a different time, I really feel sorry for you guys. Women just aren't interested in sex like they used to be.
Neither are us men. Somewhere over 10 years and counting. Og simple man. Og feel horny? Og make fap fap until feeling go away. Og get back to cave and work. Scratchum HTML in cave wall with stick. Tribal leader give Og green paper. Og trade green paper for hunk of cows, sheep, and pigs that were felled by mighty hunter tribe know only as Trader Joe. Og cook-um own food. Brew-um own beer. Wank-um own weener.
What for Og need woman? Why buy or rent cow when beer is free?
What for woman need Og? Why buy pig when all she want is sausage?
Og and woman not need each other. Both better off for it.

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Re:My surprise is about to turn 3! (Score:3, Funny)

by Atzanteol ( 99067 ) writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @04:05PM (#16647083) Homepage

Ugh. I've been to some of those. Given a choice I'd take the mortuary.

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Re:Totally pointless (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @04:10PM (#16647195)

Stop it, Dad!!! You're embarrassing me!

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Why bother with all that? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 30, 2006 @05:23PM (#16648657)

Just come up with a pill to make semen taste like chocolate.

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