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For now, men who want to do their part for birth control have meager choices: A vasectomy — meant to be permanent — and condoms.

For years, experts have predicted that male contraception is under development and that more choices will be here soon.

But when? Experts agree it’s still a ways off, but it’s getting closer.

“It has been slow,” said Dr. Ronald Swerdloff, a researcher in the quest to find feasible male contraceptive methods. But there are good reasons for that slow pace, added Swerdloff, an endocrinologist and chief of the division of endocrinology at Harbor-UCLA and professor of medicine at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to take on a new product quickly because of untested liability issues, he said. And “one of the biggest single issues has to do with the fact that contraception in general is a difficult area it would be used by large numbers of healthy individuals.” The safety threshold, he noted, is high. Still, he added, more options are moving closer.

“If we really focus on studies, with funding, it could be four or five years” before more options might be available, said Elaine Lissner, director of the Male Contraception Information Project, a San Francisco-based organization.

The problem, she added, is that the research has been scattergun. “If we [continue to] do a study here, a study there, as we have for the last 20 years, it could take forever.”

At a “Future of Male Contraception” conference, sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Seattle, a variety of methods were reviewed, including:

* Hormonal therapy and testicular warming — Swerdloff and his team found that giving men testosterone and another hormone with testicular warming helped suppress sperm. “The transient testicular warming [like sitting in a spa] causes the suppression to occur much earlier [than the hormones alone],” he said.
* Transdermal gels — In another study by Swerdloff’s team, 140 men applied either a progestin gel called Nestorone or a testosterone gel, or both. The researchers studied various doses and then drew blood samples to measure hormone levels. They reported on the 119 men who complied and finished the study, concluding that the combination worked better to suppress sperm.
* “Intra Vas Device,” or IVD — An alternative to a vasectomy, this method involves inserting silicone plugs into the vas deferens, the tube sperm move through and the same tube cut in a vasectomy. “The sperm can’t get past the plugs,” said Joe Hofmeister, president of Shepherd Medical Company in St. Paul, Minn., the IVD developer. “Preliminary six-month data show that 90 percent of 60 men [tracked to date] have zero motile sperm,” he said. More study is needed to track the IVD for reversibility, Hofmeister said.
* Vitamin A blocker — Columbia University researchers tested a drug abandoned by a pharmaceutical company because it interferes with vitamin A receptors in the testes, lowering fertility. It worked well in animal studies; whether it will do the same in human studies is not yet known.

These approaches, if successful, will take several more years to get market approval, all the researchers agreed.

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And when it’s pierced, it’s even better… (Not Work Safe)

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Not So Work Safe

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• Over his lifetime, the average male will produce about 18 quarts of semen. Who wants to be average?
• According to the world health organization, 100 million acts of sexual intercourse occur every day.
• Sexologists estimate that at any given second in the US, approximately 800 men are experiencing orgasm as you read this…
• The average testicle size is 2.5″ long by 1.25″ wide.
• 75% of men have their penis hanging to the left in their pants. 17% have their penis hanging to the right and 8% let it hang either way.
• The degree of sexual arousal often determines the trajectory and distance of ejaculation.
• A male in a high degree of sexual excitement is capable of ejaculating his semen 24′ or greater.
• Semen has only 5 calories per teaspoon.
• The human male has the largest penis (proportional to body) of all bipeds.
• There is a direct correlation between life expectancy and how often men have sex.
• Hitler and Napoleon were each missing one testicle.
• To “Testify” was based on men the Roman Court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

FYI on penis size:

• 6″ & below - 75% of all males
• 7″ - 15% of all males
• 8″ - 3% of all males
• 9″ - only 2 in 1000 men
• 10″ - less than 1 in 10,000 men
• 11″ - less than 5000 in the whole world

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy, Elizabethtown, and Kingdom of Heaven. Bloom most recently appeared in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.