"That would destroy life for me."
Would men take a birth control pill if it meant having the same side effects as women? Here's what they said.
Would men take a birth control pill if it meant having the same side effects as women? Here's what they said.
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00:00Weight gain, nausea, decreased sex drive, depression, fogginess, acne, risk of blood
00:05clots, heart attack.
00:06Knowing that, do you think you'd still be willing to take male birth control if there
00:11were the same side effects?
00:12Oh no!
00:13Are you out of your mind?
00:14No, I wouldn't take that pill, that would destroy life for me.
00:20This is Russell for Brood, I'm in Washington Square Park, we're here to ask some men about
00:24birth control.
00:25The male birth control pill is in clinical testing, do you think you'd be willing to
00:31take it?
00:32I don't like putting stuff in my body that I don't know exactly where all the ingredients
00:35come from.
00:36No, I got f***ed up from the second Covid shot, I ain't taking anything like that.
00:40I mean if I don't want kids and if I enjoy having sex and I know personally that I don't
00:46want kids and my wife don't want kids, so why not?
00:50No, I mean, why not?
00:55I don't see the point in taking it.
01:00What's your opinion on male birth control?
01:03I mean, it's...
01:06I would say I would.
01:08Would you?
01:09I mean, I would probably, I would probably, honestly.
01:12It's just a weird concept to me right now, you know.
01:16But, yeah.
01:17Yeah, I think if it becomes available for men, if it's like easier than women taking
01:23pills, then that isn't too much of a burden.
01:27I use condoms, you know.
01:29You gotta use a condom.
01:30As far as male birth control, like, hell yeah, man.
01:33Like, let me take a pill, like, you know, so that I don't have to worry about it.
01:37I fully support male contraception.
01:39See, currently, testing is not good enough for me.
01:42So unless I get the approval that it's perfectly safe, then I might do it, I might do it.
01:49I might do it, yeah.
01:50So, do you know some of the common side effects for female birth control?
01:54Oh my god, I know that there's a ton, right?
01:57There's like over, like, 50, right?
01:59Oh, I don't know anything about that.
02:01Side effects?
02:02Yeah.
02:03I don't know.
02:05They're different.
02:06I think it varies on the type that you get and the woman and the body and how her body
02:09reacts to it.
02:10But, you know, everybody hates it.
02:12Yeah, no, I think there's...
02:14I've heard bad things, bad side effects.
02:17Blood clots, stuff like that, you know.
02:20Mood swings, weight gain, nausea, decreased sex drive.
02:24Really?
02:25Depression, fogginess, acne.
02:27Oh my god.
02:29Risk of blood clot and heart attack.
02:31Holy sh...
02:32Don't they get less acne?
02:33Isn't that one of those side effects?
02:35I honestly can't even imagine what their bodies go through and what happens when, you know,
02:39people do go on birth control.
02:41After knowing that, would you be willing to take a male birth control?
02:44No, I wouldn't.
02:45I wouldn't.
02:46No?
02:47I wouldn't.
02:48There's too many risks involved.
02:49You know what I mean?
02:50Hell no.
02:51Hell no.
02:52No.
02:53No.
02:54No.
02:55No.
02:56I wouldn't want any of that, right?
02:59Nobody wants that.
03:00Yeah, so male birth control should, I would say, start coming into play.
03:05Yeah, I see it coming.
03:07I don't think I would take a male birth control.
03:09I don't think I would.
03:11We could just use a condom.
03:12Why would you take it?
03:13Yeah, that's true.
03:14That's ridiculous.
03:15You have to come and go through that and have to experience that.
03:17It's not okay, you know?