Single Black Male

After 20 years of research … we are finally approaching a effective male contraceptive (condom doesn’t count).

Personally … I am all for it.  I welcome it with open arms and damned if I wouldn’t sign up for the trial if I could.

A little background:

After reading about it here and here, I have found out the basics.  Apparently there are a couple of options.  There is a gel you can use, a pill you can take, an injection, and an implant.  The side effects seem to be pretty minimal, and they are having great success.  The implant is supposed to be the first to market … and it all looks good.

I was talking to someone about this … a woman … and she told me “Men are too lazy to take control of their own birth control.  I don’t like taking a pill everyday … and I know ya’ll [lazy ass n***s] ain’t gonna do it!”.  Uh … who has been the one carrying condoms in their back pockets for the last 100 years?  The duty of finding and putting on a condom has generally remained the burden of the man trying to have sex … so whats so different about a little implant a shot every once in awhile.

I have publicly stated that my #2 fear in life (might be #3 … something) is getting the wrong person pregnant at the wrong time.  So … if there is something I can do to help prevent that (the potential increase in condom less sex is just an added benefit) … again … I am all for it.

Now, this could be a touchy subject for some.  Contraception (besides condoms) has only been available for women for … well … ever since it was available period.  Besides a thin sheet of latex, we as men haven’t had anything to protect us besides prayer and the classic “pull out”.  I already hear the one guy saying “I ain’t taking no pill or nothing!  F*ck that!” or “What you mean I’m not gonna make sperm!  F*ck that!”. Or, are you gonna get the teenage son asking dad “can you get me the pill?”.  How does dad respond (”way to go son” comes to mind)?

So … is contraception a female’s responsibility? Is the condom the only thing a man has to worry about? Is this doomed to failure?  Is this possibly one of the greatest inventions of my lifetime?

Family … what do you say?