The heat method.... ingenious! Never heard of it. Id heard that tight underwear could impair fertility in some men, but never heard that you could generate six months of male sterility with warm bath water. On the other hand, I have to giggle at the mental visions of the test phase of this! Excerpt: Male contraception has been a preoccupation for longer than you might imagine. In the 5th century BC, Hippocrates had some success with heating a mans testicles in a hot bath. The father of western medicine might not have had proof that sperm is much happier several degrees below a mans core body temperature – we learned that in the 20th century – but the heat method has become an enduring and often successful way of preventing conception. Dr Marthe Voegeli, a Swiss doctor working in India from the 1930s to the 1950s, advocated that men put their testicles in a shallow bath warmed to 46.5C for 45 minutes a day for three weeks. Her tests – on hundreds of Indian men and a small handful of English, American and Scottish volunteers – indicated that this would lead to around six months of sterility. theguardian/society/2014/feb/01/who-wants-male-contraceptive-pill-chauvinism
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:35:42 +0000