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0 pointsnailer9y ago0 comments

This pill won't because depression and inability to maintain an erection are side effects. But one in future may.

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WA9y ago

I don't believe daily medication for something stupid like contraception is the solution. I mean, take a good and hard look at the mechanical aspects of human reproduction. Those tubes for semen are a bottleneck, a single point of failure. They're ripe for disruption in an entirely mechanical way ;)

No need to mess with the entire hormone system.

yosamino9y ago

I don't know the current status of this system and if it's viable at all, but check out https://www.bimek.com/

Cthulhu_9y ago

> implying the pill for women doesn't have equally bad side-effects. But they're more likely to take them, because they're the ones that end up pregnant.

nailerOP9y ago

> implying the pill for women doesn't have equally bad side-effects.

- I actually wasn't talking about the women's pill at all - you can tell this by reading the post you're replying to.

- But yes, inability to have sex is not a common side effect of the female pill. Which I suspect you also already know.

Have you considered reading the HN guidelines?

nailerOP9y ago

In case it isn't clear: yes the female pill causes depression. It may, also, like the recent male pill, cause suicidal thoughts. However the female pill categorically does not prevent coitus, whereas not having an erection does.

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WA9y ago

No need to mess with the entire hormone system.

yosamino9y ago

I don't know the current status of this system and if it's viable at all, but check out https://www.bimek.com/

Cthulhu_9y ago

> implying the pill for women doesn't have equally bad side-effects. But they're more likely to take them, because they're the ones that end up pregnant.

nailerOP9y ago

> implying the pill for women doesn't have equally bad side-effects.

- I actually wasn't talking about the women's pill at all - you can tell this by reading the post you're replying to.

- But yes, inability to have sex is not a common side effect of the female pill. Which I suspect you also already know.

Have you considered reading the HN guidelines?

nailerOP9y ago

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