...but where would this be attached? How is this connected to the body? Just saying "you can now turn off fertility" without any scientific evidence doesn't make it true.
It probably still would not work. From my perspective it's going to be like a light switch. The switch will still have electricity flowing through but the light is turned off. It's not going to stop sperm from coming out. There is no sure way, unless the balls are cut off or major deformity, that sperm cannot be fertile. Vasectomy is also not a hundred percent full proof either. I have a couple of friends that the husband had gotten a vasectomy, still got pregnant.
@lady_earth
the device works by clamping off the sperm line when the switch is flipped on, so it would be full-proof. it would stop the sperm from leaving the testicles and entering into the urethra.
It's a great idea but it's 3 months between when you flick the switch and when you can be sure that the sperm will be absent from the seminal fluid. I reckon the success of any contraceptive like this is limited until you can literally activate it, ejaculate risk-free, then deactivate it and know that you're fertile again immediately.
There are other issues - you need one for each testicle; they're a sizeable permanent intrusion into a delicate area of the body; they're fucking expensive. Still, what a great step forward.
some people just dont want to keep buying those and would rather have it this way as a single payment.
there's male birth control, but they never released it due to the side effects it had, even though they're literally the SAME effects as female birth control.
tbh i think the switch is an amazing idea and gives men another option.
They're still working on a pill and one day there'll be one available, I reckon. But imagine literally bring able to switch your potency on and off like that, to every partner's immediate satisfaction. It would be amazing. Frankly I'd be happy to have my vas deferens rerouted outside my scrotum, with a plug in the line that I could either connect or disconnect as appropriate.
We should definitely be researching male birth control. In the world of gender equality, it would be good for men to have that ability....but a switch? That seems potentially dangerous and likely malfunction.
Holy crap..
So you know how sometimes when you learn something new you hear or see something about it later?
Literally yesterday my class was talking about birth control pills for men..
the device works by clamping off the sperm line when the switch is flipped on, so it would be full-proof. it would stop the sperm from leaving the testicles and entering into the urethra.
https://www.bimek.com/sperm-switch/
There are other issues - you need one for each testicle; they're a sizeable permanent intrusion into a delicate area of the body; they're fucking expensive. Still, what a great step forward.
there's male birth control, but they never released it due to the side effects it had, even though they're literally the SAME effects as female birth control.
tbh i think the switch is an amazing idea and gives men another option.
'dammit! Did I leave my balls on?'
So you know how sometimes when you learn something new you hear or see something about it later?
Literally yesterday my class was talking about birth control pills for men..