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Re:The Economics of Male Birth Control by souljaswag on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:57PM (#10415275)
I am though.

maybe we can make a website where we "verify" if people are trustworthy before drunken hookups.

tryna take home a dude at the bar? just verifyhim

we can even call it verifyhim. scan his fingerprint on your iphone and/or use your cameraphone to scan his eyes to verify if he was using the man pill last time he hooked up.

Re:The Economics of Male Birth Control by LesZedCB on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:06PM (#10415334)
I've heard of that idea before. It wouldn't work for many reasons, the main being "cache invalidation." i.e. it becomes obsolete as soon as somebody has another sexual partner. And at that point, you're trusting users to just update it.

That doesn't even mention the privacy issues involved.

Re:The Economics of Male Birth Control by noxToken on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:10PM (#10415363)
Yes, because I'm sure tons of people will line up to have their fingerprint/eye pattern associated with contraception and their last potential hookup in a 3rd party database. What could go wrong?
Re:The Economics of Male Birth Control by dllthomas on Monday October 19, 2015 @07:41PM (#10416551)
"Yes, because I'm sure tons of people will line up to have their fingerprint/eye pattern associated with contraception and their last potential hookup in a 3rd party database."

Sadly, I am also sure of this.

Re:The Economics of Male Birth Control by hugh4 on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:31PM (#10415927)
Theoretically (not that I think it's necessarily a viable product) could you tell if a woman is on birth control from a blood sample?