Beyond Condoms: The Long Quest for a Better Male Contraceptive

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A joke among researchers in the field of male contraception is that a clinically approved alternative to condoms or vasectomy has been five to 10 years away for the past 40 years. The so-close-yet-so-far state of male contraceptive development has persisted in large part because of three serious hurdles: the technical challenges of keeping millions of sperm at bay, the stringent safety standards that a drug intended for long-term use in healthy people must meet, and, ultimately, the question of whether men will use it. [More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=beyond-condoms-the-long-quest-male-contraceptive)

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