[runsonmagic]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...-2017.html

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According to a press release from the Parsemus Foundation, a not-for profit organization focused on developing low-cost medical approaches, Vasalgel is proving effective in a baboon study. Three lucky male baboons were injected with Vasalgel and given unrestricted sexual access to 10 to 15 female baboons each. Despite the fact that they have been monkeying around for six months now, no female baboons have been impregnated. With the success of this animal study and new funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Parsemus Foundation is planning to start human trials for Vasalgel next year. According to their FAQ page, they hope to see it on the market by 2017 for, in their words, less than the cost of a flat-screen television.

[MY DETROIT PLAYAS]

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[dog]

This has the potential to be absolutely huge. Widespread male-controlled contraception would put a lot more relationship power back into the hands of men. At the very least women will have to get better at putting on an act of being good relationship material in order to get a dude to knock them up.

I wonder if we'll see a rise in sperm bank usage among women as a result. There must be a substantial number of women who have no desire to better themselves to attract a mate, but still want the social status that having children gives them. Although they don't need the beta bucks anymore, they still crave that alpha seed.

[Benoit]

Dupe-ish: http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-36608.html

[Slim Shady]

Inject something to alter the fertility of the kind of men [like me/us] who will be sleeping around and will need this? The same kind of men who are most likely to resist whatever the Government and Feminist lobby are up to, to see the sense beyond the fog?

In an age when Testosterone levels are at an all-time low, there is estrogen in the water supply, and we still don't know the long term effects of high fructose corn syrup, I'll pass for now...

Of course in an ideal world this is great.

[NY Digital]

What about RISUG? It's been in human trials in India for a while now.

http://www.wired.com/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/all/

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Meanwhile, after a repeat of some of the basic toxicology tests (and another shift in the political wind), Phase III trials have resumed in India with full government support. Five hundred subjects are expected to be enrolled at 10 study centers around the country. One of those patients was Devendra Deshpande, the man who read about the safety of RISUG on his cell phone before undergoing the procedure.

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An hour after the procedure started, Deshpande was on his way home. He had two band-aids on his shaved scrotum, plus a handful of painkillers and a course of ciprofloxacin—Indian doctors do not mess around when it comes to prescribing strong antibiotics. He used the pain pills for a couple of days and felt some tenderness and swelling for a week but no other side effects. There was no recurring scrotal pain, as sometimes happens with a vasectomy; on most days, he forgot that the stuff was in there.

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And regarding what Indians euphemistically term “the family life,” he says, there was one big plus: He didn’t have to continue using condoms for three months, as is recommended after standard vasectomies.

Does anyone know the difference between RISUG and Vasalgel? Or are they pretty much the same.

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EDIT: So Vasalgel is similar but will be cheaper to make and is working on the regulatory process to be ready for market.
From the RISUG website: http://www.newmalecontraception.org/risug/

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While the final clinical trial in India continues slowly but steadily enrolling men, in early 2010 a foundation focused on contraceptive research licensed the rights to develop RISUG for use outside India. Parsemus Foundation is directed by a longtime advocate of nonhormonal male contraception. The foundation began by working on RISUG, but has moved towards working on a similar but distinct product called Vasalgel, which is expected to be more cost-effective to make and which is making its way through the regulatory process necessary to bring the product to market.

[Basil Ransom]

Dupe thread. You don't need a new thread every time an article on RISUG/Vasalgel comes out.

I believe RISUG and Vasalgel are the same thing.

[Foolsgo1d]

Its a wonder drug if they give it to the majority of men in Africa and Asia to stem the population growth. it is a Children of Men scenario in the West if it becomes popular.

Not to mention our birth rates are down as it is. I wouldn't be surprised if this drug gets banned in France.

A lot of future implications.

[Excelsior]

(09-09-2014 05:06 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

Its a wonder drug if they give it to the majority of men in Africa and Asia to stem the population growth.

They'd need to be forced to take it. Fertility is tied very strong to masculinity in much of the world outside of the west, and most men AND women in these places desire larger families than their western counterparts. I don't expect fertility rates in Africa and South Asia to get much lower than they are now. There's still room for continued decline, but these people are going to settle at a level much higher than that of their western counterparts.

That s probably a good thing in the long term. We don't want the entire world adopting unsustainable western sub-replacement fertility trends. Someone has to reproduce.