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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by sleepychu on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:27AM (#13986498)
Most women would like to avoid getting pregnant by accident, even if they have the option to abort an unwanted pregnancy.

This method seems to have no side effect and would reduce the chance with another contraceptive method with 98% success of prevention would make the odds of pregnancy within 1 year negligible (and they only go down over time)

The article claims that since the executives of pharma companies are rich, white men they would not be inclined to threaten their manhood by using this contraceptive and therefore don't see a market to bring it to.

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by gragas on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:59AM (#13987527)
But what does being white have to do with it?
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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by sleepychu on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:50PM (#13989922)
Maybe the Indian creator feels that this is less of an issue in their culture and conflates culture with race?

Perhaps Western would be a better adjective. I agree with you though, as it stands skin colour seems to have little to do with it.

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