Would men take a male birth control?

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"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.

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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?

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