I wouldn't trust another person with my contraception.

It's up to me to make certain I don't have any babies by accident.

It's up to my partner to make sure he doesn't start any babies by accident.

He can use the pill for his contraceptive needs, and I can use my Implanon.

For now I'd rather not use it, at least until I've seen it used widely by the public.

I'd prefer to wait for this other stuff that's coming out in the next few years that they've been researching that is an Etonogestrel-based topical gel that has demonstrated the lowest risk of side effects in men (and a modified version of which is under testing that works for girlies too, though with a slightly higher risk of side effects) that I now can't find a link to.

I'm not opposed to the idea of taking birth control, and if my favorite sperm reseptical (I love you sweetie!) starts developing health problems as a result of being on birth control, I'll probably reconsider my choice, but for now I'd like to wait and make sure they get all the glitches out before buying in, kinda like I did with the XBOX360.

After the stuff has been out for a few years and they have no deaths linked to it I would look into it.  In the meantime my wife likes being on depo.  Who am I to question her?  We still use a condom as well, just because we know there is a chance of her getting pregnant despite the depo.

That happened to a guy I used to date.  His ex called him up and did the, "I know we had a bad breakup, but let's be friends," bit.  He, being a decent sort of guy, said, "Sure, no problem."  A couple of months later, she calculated out her days, invited him over for a 'friendly' dinner, bought a box of condoms, and poked holes in every one of them.  He arrives for dinner, she opens a couple bottles of wine, she steers the conversation around to the good times they had, he's newly single, they fall into bed for 'old times sake', and she calls him a month and a half later to tell him she's pregnant.  Her expectation was that he'd come back to her, because he'd 'have to'.  When he failed to do that, she was livid.

She bragged to everyone who would listen about how she'd set him up and try as he might, he could never be completely rid of her (this is the girl who, when she found out he was dating after he broke up with her, followed him thirty miles to my house, waited till he left, then knocked on my door to tell me I was just temporary, and he'd be back where he belonged in no time).

I'm pretty sure that if he'd had the option of a male pill, he'd so have been all over that notion.

Yeah, I knew someone who borrowed condoms that had been tampered with. She found out what happened after she realized she was pregnant. Some people are just messed up in the head.

Err, I think you are mixing things up a bit?

I took his story to mean that a friend borrowed a condom from another friend.  The condom that they borrowed form their friend had been tampered with.  They used the condoms, got pregnant, and then later found out that she had been using tampered condoms at the time.

In any case, woah.  As much as it would suck to get pregnant from a guy who lied about taking the male pill or some such thing, at least I could have an abortion.  If a girl did that to you, there isn't really much you can do about it is there, except pay out of the ass for child support for the next 18 years.

Damn that would suck.  Now you know The Fear^TM instilled in every girl from the time she's old enough to get pregnant.

*sigh*

No one gets my humor.

*gives Badger a used condom as a consolation prize*

...Umm, don't spend it all in one place?

I suddenly feel sorry for nobody.

Man, he is sleeping with Badger. If the price of that is a few funny-lookin' condoms then bring the funny-lookin' condoms on.