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If your oral contraceptives cause you any significant side effects, it makes sense to consult a gynecologist to change the prescription. There are many options out there, and correctly chosen ones should not typically cause them.
In terms of pregnancies, oral contraceptives can be both more or less efficient that condoms depending on the mode of usage for each (and also discipline, don’t skip either). Besides, for many couples accidental pregnancy is a bit of a change of plans, but not something that will warrant abortion or make children unwanted. Again, case-dependent.
It’s okay to choose condoms as well, as long as partners are happy about it. If that gives you a peace of mind, you can even combine both measures at the same time! It’s only important to remember that there are two (or more) partners involved, and all being happy about the choices made is crucial for great intimacy. Do not ever force someone to take pills if they don’t want to, and discuss your options if someone has issues with condoms. Maybe the issues are with latex condoms specifically, with polyurethane options providing less allergenicity and better sensitivity. Maybe a diaphragm can be your option. Or maybe something else. You can always discuss, you’re not on a gender war or something, you’re partners.
Personally, I can’t wait for male contraceptive pills to hit the market. Not only it will provide a solution to this specific problem, shifting responsibility for proper selection of contraception and any issues coming with it onto the people who need it the most, it will also provide men with more agency about their reproduction. Finally, you can combine male and female contraceptives to get unparalleled non-barrier protection with good insurance in case one partner misses the pill. Win all-round.
On a personal note, sexual discomfort is obviously an important factor to account for when talking about intimacy and love, so it shouldn’t be seen as stupid and unimportant, as portrayed here.
That should not overpower any health concerns, not least because they are too sources of discomfort, but it should be taken into account.
Talk it through with your partner - you’re in it together, and there’s almost certainly an option for both of you. Feel free to explore something other than pills and condoms as well if you need it - the world of contraception methods is huge.
but a vacectomy is only once
That’s why I got mine!
Honestly, one of the easiest things I’ve ever done!
And let’s not talk about contraceptive pills for men, that have been heavily fought against because one of the listed side effects are impotency.
Instead, let’s push hormones on a sex that relies on them heavily to function properly, and hope that nothing will break.
As always, to get approval for a drug, the potential side effects have to outweigh the benefits of the drug. From a purely logical and medical standpoint, there is no medical drawback for a man when the hormonal contraceptive fails and neither is there a medical benefit. If there are serious side effects, they have to outweigh the medical benefit and drawbacks, of which there are none, so that’s pretty hard.
For women on the other hand, medically speaking pregnancy is a huge condition, sometimes dangerous, so there is a benefit and drawback if it doesn’t work and the drugs are approved despite having side effects.
Oh please. Female contraceptives have been available for 80 years. The first ones were extracted and slightly modified from yams.
We’re now in a time where pharmaceutical development is in a space age compared to what it was 80 years ago. We’ve mapped the entire human genome, we can bioengineer bacteria to spit out custom molecules and proteins, we have freely available XRC 3d models of hundreds of thousands of proteins and their docking sites, we have (free) computational chemistry software that can do quantum molecular dynamics and supercomputers (but you only really need a fucking laptop), and the toolbox of organic chemistry is vastly larger than what it was in the 1950s.
The reason why no-one has come up with a safe and effective male contraceptive that can be anywhere near compared to existing female contraceptives is because it turns out to be fucking difficult.
Am I the only person who is more deathly afraid of a life long STD that could fucking kill me than an unplanned pregnancy?
I dont care which one of us got the snip, unless I’m sure I’m the only dude you’re banging I’m bagging the fuck up until I see some test results which I’ll be happy to get and provide in kind.
I really can’t think of an STI that would kill you these days. Am I missing one?
Yay condoms!
In a first world country with access to excellent medical care, no underlying conditions in an otherwise healthy person you’re probably going to be fine.
Thats not to say it might not be a significant contributor to what does get you.
What might be a significant contributor to what gets you? Like what STI(s) are you thinking about?
Yeah, bi man here, I can’t get pregnant, but STDs still would affect me if I had sex with men.
Honestly why I downvoted OP. They shouldn’t be at the point of having this pissing-match without having used condoms together already, and cumming-inside the vagina isn’t exactly required for intimacy even then.
OPs characters lack imagination, and are catering to an audience that shouldn’t be encouraged into maintaining such a narrow way of thought.
I’d assume because many people in these discussions are married… in which case yeah getting an STD would be the booger on top of the shit sundae. But yeah the test results only have to be checked overall at the start of the long term relationship… at least assuming you can trust your partner… while pregnancy is something you’ve got to be alert to in the entirety of a relationship.
If your married and kids are a forever no then dude should get the snip. Simple. I’m getting one soonish and if I ever find myself single again I’ll still be wearing rubbers unless Ive had the chat.
AI Slop
Nah, the artist is Lainey.molnar on instagram who hss been posting since 2020, at least according to this proxy website. Her artsyle pretty much always looked like this, and AI art definitely wasn’t that good back in 2020.
Funnily enough, her stuff is supposed to be abpit women empowerment and overall left-leaning stuff, but I always got a weird feeling from her posts and art. Lo and behold there’s a long ass reddit post about her craziness (natural treatments for mental illness, alcoholism, potentially faking queer identity, etc.) Also, I guess she might be an original art stealer, aka a tracer lol. At least tracing still requires some effort.
NOTE: Just because this artist is a bad person doesn’t mean people can be bigots. Don’t reply to this with some “huh looks like the SJW feminist was actually bad, women ☕️” shit. I will block you.
EDIT: Read the reddit post again and apparently she’s been known to recreate her image by creating and destroying blogs over and over. Idk when she started drawing, but she used to have a myspace blog, so once again, not AI. Just human slop.
Even this specific post like, yes I know that there are men who try to somehow weasel their way out of condoms using that logic and those guys are bad and wrong.
But on it’s face both of these things are valid. Birth control frequently sucks a LOT for women, and condoms can be unpleasant (not to the same extreme don’t even try it) for guys. It’s not a competition, nor is it mutually exclusive.
Not AI slop but an art style I don’t like either
If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.
There are multiple birth control methods to choose from. Planned Parenthood has a great guide.
If your birth control really does even some of those things then you should stop using it and seek one of the many alternatives available to you
Don’t have to wear a condom if you don’t have sex 😎
Oldest form of birth control: being uggo
This guy does not have sex.
ok, and???
Don’t wear a condom.
Don’t have to wear a condom because boys can’t get pregnant
😎
Not according to a number of stories I’ve seen
you just need to try harder.
Can I use you as my test partner?
only if you promise to call me in the morning
I’m the kind of guy who spends the night 😏
then I guess you can call me whatever you want 🤔
Lemmit love, it’s beautiful 😍
STDs enter the chat
Prep and doxy kick it out
Take responsibility big man
We’re talking about babies, darling~
Vascectomy for the win.
Guys saying condoms are uncomfortable don’t know how to properly put them on, and/or use the incorrect size for their dick.
I’ve tried several brands and sizes and the right condom makes a big difference.
This was me for a good three years. Standard condoms were always uncomfortable, to the point of pain, but not once did I consider going larger, thanks to my first girlfriend (our breakup was… less than ideal thanks to her cheating, and she then went on to tell me, and most of our friends, that my size was entirely inadequate, borderline micropenis, which I took to heart for quite a while).
It took the aforementioned three years and quite a few one-night stands telling me I’m big to even start thinking “hey maybe I need larger condoms”.
Guys, don’t be like me, if it’s uncomfortable, go check out the many brands that do specifically sized nominal widths for condoms. Each will have a guide on successfully measuring yourself, or offer a sample kit which you can try for the right fit. Don’t ruin your sex life with shitty condom choices.
what about guys with weird shaped penis’s?
are there churo or star shaped condoms?
I liked playdoh as a kid and got curious about the extrusion set one day…
Put a regular condom on one and find out. Condoms stretch and conform, so all your question shows is that you’ve never used one. Its amazing how eager circumcised virgins are to out themselves over this stuff.
We both like actually touching each-other instead of latex
Heathen! This is the only way to be safe:
cool, a brand new account posting slop.
I get the point you’re making, but it’s also very reductive
Elaborate.
Mass-market condoms often don’t fit properly, even for men who aren’t excessively well endowed. Yeah, you can stretch them over your head and fill them up like a balloon, but that’s not at all comfortable. Also, they do break, so it’s not like there’s no risk of pregnancy.
Yeah, you have to go for the boutique condoms. Head down to your local condomer. Get measured and fitted for a personal touch
There’s actually a couple that I tried that did work significantly better than off-the-shelf, but they still kinda sucked. As I recall, they were really expensive, too.
This is my penance for being born with a weird dick, I guess.
So you just reiterated the comic. No amount of discomfort compares to what women go through.
Some women also hate the feeling/lack of direct contact from condoms, it isn’t just a man thing. They are necessary in many sexual relationships, but this comic is the absolute most basic take on birth control options which is broadly accurate but has zero nuance.
Most women I had sex with were on birth control for reasons other than avoiding pregnancy. I still used condoms except in committed and monogamous relationships, but everyone involved preferred going without if other considerations were taken.
Well that does it, folks. This guy just ended all the arguments because his experience was X and all the women who have openly complained about the drawbacks of birth control were just wrong! I mean, there’s no reason that the artist of this comic should have made this comic. It’s such a niche idea!! Crazy!
You should work on your reading comprehension.
…broadly accurate but has zero nuance.
And you should wear a condom.
The condom pretty much takes the sensations of pleasure out of sex.
It really doesn’t but keep telling yourself that. Maybe one day it will magically be true.
Does for me, every brand we’ve tried. But birth control fucks her up, so I just deal with it. Without definitely feels better, I don’t think anyone can argue with that.
I don’t think anyone can argue with that.
People who have never had sex like the person you’re replying to would probably still try though.
Without does feel better, but a condom doesn’t “take the sensations of pleasure out of sex” as the person I replied to said.
Well it does for me.
You guys really are leaning into the comic…
Ah of course, pleasure is irrelevant. All safety, no pleasure.
Edit: are you like 12 years old?
So your pleasure is more important than anything else? Dude, just stop replying.
Learn to accept that people can have different views to yours and that doesn’t make them wrong.
Lol OK, buddy.
Why do some women choose birth control despite the potential side effects if not needed for medical purposes, sir White Knight?
Some do. But this comic is comparing multiple bad side effects to lack of pleasure.
Ya didn’t answer the question matey
Because some women aren’t all women? Let’s not even get into the argument of the expectation of sex and fear of rejection that women feel in speaking their minds. Pretending to feel a certain way to keep their partner because that’s how it’s been for forever can lead to women saying they like something they do not. It’s not that hard, but then again there is a male loneliness epidemic for a reason.
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I see all y’all arguing and I just want her dress and his hat.
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