I like to experiment. I'm currently the only subject who's willing to sign up for my experiments.
I was married once. She was a little off her rocker, I didn't want her getting knocked up, she didn't want to get knocked up, she'd had bad experience with "hormonal birth control" pills, so we only used rubbers. Meh. Neither of us wanted a kid, so it was okay.
Rubbers are like masks: no one likes them.
In those old comments (circa 2016), I discussed how I think women are all given the short stick [1] by the medical system. Women have all the costs of pregnancies, it's fairly easy to render men temporarily infertile, but this is not done because women are easy targets for profiteers.
> And are you not worried about messing up?
I have a microscope. The sperm come back. I'm going for a current sperm test this week. It'll have been 13 weeks (~3 months) since my last heat treatment. I don't know that my sperm count will be normal, but I expect it to be in the low-millions. I expect it'd be back to 'good enough' by six months.
I'm going to switch to the silicone ring because I recently learned that inducing the heat shock proteins is stress-inducing, and I think the French researchers I linked to are more studied in this field than I am. I have a system to facilitate the 112° heat treatments, but I need more parts to finish the next revision, and I want to experiment with the silicone ring. Maybe I'll do a hybrid approach - 5 days of baths w/ the ring... Hmm.
OH - PRO TIP: IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THE HOT BATH TREATMENTS, HAVE 'GATORADE' WITH SUGAR AND ELECTORLYTES AVAILABLE WHILE TAKING HOT BATHS. (I use salted fruit juice when I'm doing the heat treatments, if I skip this I get light headed. Very dangerous.)
> why are you doing this?
From my earlier comments:
"There is a problem with birth control that the media doesn't like to talk about. While millions of women take birth control, almost all of them eventually (or immediately) hate the side effects. So most women take these awful drugs only because they are seen as the best way to prevent pregnancy." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934396
"There is quite a gap between modern "medical science" and physiology. The core problem is that it is much more profitable for Wall Street to suppress women's difficult menstrual cycles with drugs, than to implement what was figured out long ago." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11763145 (emphasis added)
[1] "To get the short end of the stick or to get the wrong end of the stick means to get the bad end of a deal, to come out on the bottom of a contest or exchange, to be gotten the better of in any given situation. The connotation is that one has not been treated quite fairly or that one is unlucky." - https://grammarist.com/idiom/get-the-short-end-or-the-wrong-...