Fred, I thought you said you were on the pill?

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Fifty years ago, the first combined contraceptive oral pill hit the market and singlehandedly paved the way for the liberation of women and created an entirely different social dynamic between the sexes. Today, over 100 million women around the world take “the pill” but many are unable due to it side effects.

As always, enter an Israeli researcher. Professor Haim Breitbart of Bar-Ilan University authored a grounbreaking paper in 2006 documenting how sperm survive in the uterus. Now, he has taken those findings and created a compound that works to sterilize males which can be taken in pill form. While it has only been tested on mice, it appears to have little or no side effects what so ever on their sex drive. Said Breitbart, “The mice behaved nicely, they ate and had sex.”

Based on Breitbart’s own findings that protein generation by sperm while in the uterus is key for fertilization, by stopping protein synthesis in the sperm, they would not manage to survive in the uterus. The “Bright Pill,” as it is being called, should not cause permanent sterility and is said to only be effective for as long as its taken, not unlike birth control pills for women today.

To read more about exactly how the future of birth control might look like, click here.

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