Every month, most females are expected to experience mood swings, possible bloating, acne, depression, cramps and feel generally down due to hormone fluctuations causing a menstrual cycle. It's basic sexual education, most people know this fact. Yet women are still expected to be in control and composed, which is not an unreasonable request. However, for some, these symptoms can cause actual disruptions in daily life and can manifest and cause actual disorders, such as endometriosis. Some can be life threatening. To remedy this, birth control is prescribed in one of many forms. But still, symptoms may continue to get worse and go untreated, however women are still expected to go about their life and not complain, even if the multiple methods they have tried still do not work for them. This has literally gone on for centuries. Birth control, medically, is almost always in the hands of the woman.
So what happens when men are finally given the option to merely try male birth control in the form of injections (similar to Depo-Provera)?
The study is cut short because of mood changes, changes in sex drive, acne, and depression.
Oddly enough, these are the same symptoms that are caused by menstrual cycles, the Depo-Provera shot, the implant, the pill, and the patch. So once three percent of men showed these symptoms, the study is cut short, but when 1200 women speak out about their own birth control shot being the worst thing they have ever subjected themselves to, it's acceptable. There is no saying "Well they decided to go on it, it's their fault" when this injection is even allowed on the market. Why is something that is known to severe bone density loss in women being administered while a male equivalent produces far more manageable side effects won't even leave a trial stage? Especially when women in Puerto Rico during the pill's testing trial in 1957 reported severe side effects and were promptly ignored. Such as the fact that around 1/3 of them ended up being sterilized, 1/5 of that number were younger than 25. Medical male birth control is a great idea, and needs to be studied and further tested because until advancements are made, it will always and only be the female's responsibility medically to provide some form of contraception.
