are there any other forms of contraception for men other than using a condom?

Answer 1

Not much available except the condom and the vasectomy. male pills have been promised for 20 years, but none have ever been produced that don't have unacceptable side effects.

Answer 2

The snip , not really an option unless you have been in a relationship (or marriage) for a while and you do not want to add to your family in the future .
Withdrawal , which is a very unreliable method as sperm can be released before ejaculation and therefor lead to unwanted pregnancy
I believe there is now a contraceptive pill for men , but I don't know a great deal about it
The condom has the obvious other advantage of reducing the chances of an STD if you have a number of different partners.

Answer 3

Experimental Method of Male Contraception

The probability of conception can be made very small by sufficiently reducing the amount of sperm a man produces. This reduction in sperm production is easily accomplished by bringing the temperature of the testicles closer to body temperature, and this is most conveniently done by bringing the testicles closer to the body. Preliminary studies show that this method is effective: there were no pregnancies for the nine couples over 151 ovulation cycles of exposure.

My wife and I had considered every conventional method of birth control and we were very frustrated with their shortcomings. The artificial hormones like birth control pills made her feel depressed, spermicide on condoms burned her skin and were too ineffective without it, tuboligation and vasectomy seemed premature because we weren't certain we wouldn't want a child later, and a diaphragm was too difficult to install and not very effective without spermicide anyway. For a time it seemed that the symto-thermal method of predicting fertility would work. For several months we charted my wife's menstrual cycle. The main problem was that we had to abstain when her libido was the highest - the fertile portion of her cycle! This inspired me to get on the net and into the library and find another method.

The testicular heating method has been ideal for us, but we are an unusual couple. The advantages are that it doesn't cost anything after getting it started, it takes little time to maintain once started, it doesn't limit sexual activity in any way, it doesn't require exposure to or consumption of any drugs or hormones, and it is reversible. The disadvantages are that it hasn't been tested by many couples, so there is an unknown risk to the health of the testicles and to any baby resulting from a failure of the method. With each new study the risk gets smaller. Another disadvantage is that there is little support for this method. Most people don't even know about it!

One concern that this method brings to mind is the association of raised testicles to testicular cancer, and the best studied variation of this method involves raising the testicles. In my work as a toxicologist I attended the 40th annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology in San Francisco in March 2001. One of the first speakers was N. E. Skakkebaek of the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. In his presentation entitled, "Human Testicular Cancer: Secular Trends and Fetal Origin," he described how the impaired development resulting from raised testicles in infants results in testicular cancer in adolescence. When I asked him after the session whether raised testicles could lead to cancer in adults, he replied that there was no reason to expect so, since the testicles of an adult are already developed.

This brings up the question: If this method is so simple and effective, why isn't it well known and used? Probably because there isn't much demand for it. Most people are satisfied with existing methods. Since the only thing needed to make this method work is a rubber band, there is limited profitability in promoting or marketing the needed supplies. Condoms make much more money, and those big money makers would have to be competed against to introduce a new birth control method for men.

Answer 4

Some researchers are working on a male birth control pill, but it is still many years away from being a reality. In the meantime, vasectomy, condoms, spermicides, and abstinence are pretty much it.

Answer 5

By what I've seen, condom... Vasectomy ... and a male pill which doesnt work completely, lol. Its easier to control birth in women than it is millions of sperm.

Answer 6

The 2 bricks method?

Answer 7

Abstinence haha... but seriously, vasectomy works if you don't ever want to have kids in the future

Answer 8

spermicides, condoms,birth control pills, vasectomy, cervical caps, IUD, etc,

but the most effective is ABSTINENCE!

Answer 9

getting snipped!!!! oh and i read they are working on a male birth control pill, but not expected to be ready for years.... oh and there is also the backdoor sex, cant get pregnant that way. its an option.

Answer 10

Yeah - 10 pints of beer - or snippy de doo dah