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My wife is very happy with her IUD. She had terrible menstrual pains and now it's all gone, including the blood (and related surprises).

So it depends on the person.

I would be super happy to use similarly effective male contraceptives.

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Yeah, that was my point, but obviously not very clear. It feels to me like male contraceptive offerings are basically non-existent, and that there is basically no research/innovation in that field because it’s sort of expected that women will shoulder that burden.

I feel like it’s more that woman have a significantly higher incentive to make it happen.

Even if male contraceptives existed (in pill form), chances are they wouldn’t be nearly as effective, since the men just aren’t the ones that end up with the child if they’re acting unsafe. You’d be mostly relying on goodwill for your contraception.

Except that in many countries nowadays the father is very much on the hook for child support. It's not 100% perfect (I can imagine a few scenarios how it can fail), but birth control works best if everyone involved pays attention to this concern instead of being lazy and relying on the woman to take care of it.

Of course it works better if you are both paying attention. I never tried to say otherwise. I’m trying to say that, as a woman, you probably never want to rely on the man alone (at least, I think I’d feel more nervous if they baby would end up growing in me)

> I feel like it’s more that woman have a significantly higher incentive to make it happen.

They also had to fight for this right like crazy, mostly against men but also other women

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