We need a birth control for men and people who produce sperm
Summary
A straphanger makes the case that male birth control already exists and has been successfully trialled for years, it's just not on shelves because society hasn't caught up. Kareem agrees. The conversation turns to a vivid analogy: trying to prevent pregnancy with female birth control is like sitting under a leaking ceiling with an umbrella that gives you side effects, when you could just fix the leak at the source. The rider argues male birth control is actually more effective than current female methods, and the male body is less complicated to work with. They joke about marketing strategies. Call it Sperm Blaster, maybe. Get Nick Cannon to be the spokesperson. "Nick Cannon presents Funcom. Come all you want. It's just for fun.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? We need a birth control for men and people who produce sperm.
100% agree. I feel like there's a really broad misconception about like where male birth control is. Like people talk about it like it's this distant fantasy, but it already exists.
It does. It's been trialled for years, like very very successfully.
Is it just a pill? There's pills, there's gels, there's implants.
Little shot. Yeah.
I'll do a shot. But like the reason it's not on the shelves at Walgreens right now is not down to like a lack of scientific innovation.
I know why it's not on the shelves. Go for it.
Men. Well, yeah.
The men in charge. The science is there. We just kind of like haven't caught up as a society to make it work. And I feel like if you're any kind of feminist, performatively or not, then you should want this. Or if you just like to—
I also feel like just from like a physiological perspective, in my mind, it makes way more sense for the man to take it. If you had a leak in your ceiling, would you not want to like fix the leak at the source as opposed to sitting underneath it with an umbrella 24/7 that potentially gives you like really unpleasant side effects and you might still get rained on and if you do get rained on and you want to get a towel, it might be illegal and you might die. I also feel like the male body is less complicated than the female body. And I think that making the sperm—
Making the sperm what? Making the sperm ineffective.
Right? Exactly. Is easier than whatever happens in woman birth control, which seems really complicated. All of the birth control that's currently being trialled in men is more effective than the current methods available to women. It's just convenient for men to assume that the woman shoulder that burden, you know.
They just got to give it a cool name. Like, you know, like Liquid Death. People drink water because of that. If they call it like Sperm Blaster, then men would buy it.
Yeah. Or like someone funny to be the face of it, someone with loads of illegitimate children. Nick Cannon.
Nick Cannon. Nick Cannon.
Nick Cannon presents Funcom. Funcom.
Come all you want. It's just for fun. So buy Nick Cannon's Fun Come for $199.95. Available on Subway web store. Oh god.