Birth Control For Men

“Testing on just over 100 couples has shown an 100% success rate.”

Sure, we’ve all heard of male birth control. There was talk about a male pill and, more recently, an injectable vasectomy that are still set to make a U.S. market appearance. Various solutions surface and then fade from mainstream media, and we walk away still unsure about what works and what doesn’t.

Here’s the latest.

A leafy shrub growing in an Indonesian forest is home to a chemical that could provide male birth control in pill form.

The plant is called gandarusa, and its medicinal qualities have been known to people in Indonesia for centuries as an herbal remedy for stress. But it’s was recently also found to reduce male fertility.

Bambang Prajogo is directing the project at Airlangga University, where researchers are drying the leaves, chopping them up, extracting the active chemical, and putting it in capsule form to see if it works as a reliable form of male contraception. Bambang said the testing on just over 100 couples has shown an 100% success rate

To note: The unique aspect of gandarusa is that, unlike other forms of contraception, it doesn’t alter male hormones but instead changes the chemistry on the tip of each individual sperm, making it unable to pierce the outer wall of a female egg. But the downside (or maybe upside, depending on what you want) is that it’s not permanent. On average, men were fertile again just two months after they stopped taking the pill.

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