The Future of Male Birth Control Could Be Pills, Gels and Implants

“All I have is sperm,” Akash Bakshi says. “I’m just looking at sperm counts.” A biochemist by training, Bakshi could become the first biotech company chief executive officer to bring a hormone-free male birth control pill to market.

Currently the only widely used forms of contraception available to men are condoms and vasectomies. There’s a substantial potential market for other methods. A 2018 study in *Lancet Global Health* found that almost half of all pregnancies in the US and worldwide are unintended.

New contraceptive methods are in trials, but can companies get men to buy in? [Click here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-28/the-future-of-male-birth-control-could-be-pills-gels-and-implants) for the full story.

Every advancement in male birth control is a welcome one. There’s literally only one downside, however, which is the issue of trust.

If a woman lies about being on birth control, that’s a choice to endanger herself. That’s a risk she can take.

If a man lies about being on birth control, that’s a choice to endanger his partner. That’s a risk that’s immoral to take with another person’s body.

Condoms have the benefit of being, for lack of a less technical term, *verifiable*. Pills and gels won’t be, so we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get to it.

Just get a vasectomy ffs.

If you don’t have the money for artificial insemination, you don’t have the money to have children. 

there is never going to be a male birth control because once there is one on the market and starts to get widely adopted the birth rate will collapse further than it already has. (for the record I am in favor of male birth control; I believe everyone deserves full reproductive autonomy I’m just saying the powers that be don’t share my opinion)

In this economy? In this current sociopolitical climate?

I don’t see this happening at all.