New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year

Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by torrent-of-ions on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:29AM (#13986519)

I can't see how it would have a positive effect. HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms. Without the risk of pregnancy one can only assume the same thing will happen in the straight community.

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by sigmar on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:00PM (#13987535)

>HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms.

This is not accurate in the US. HIV diagnoses among gay men have increased less than 1% from 2010-2014 according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by digitalsushi on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:37AM (#13986597)

To be fair, the straight and gay communities are really just opposite sides of the same fish tank, not two fish tanks, as a metaphor for compartmentalizing the sharing of diseases.

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by JshWright on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:51AM (#13986765)

It's still reasonable to differentiate the primary motivation for condom use in the two 'communities'.

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by dionidium on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:34AM (#13987256)

Keep in mind that receptive anal sex carries a risk of infection 18 times higher than that of receptive vaginal sex. Moreover, receptive vaginal sex is twice as likely to result in infection as insertive vaginal sex.

http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-ris...

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by tgragnato on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:13PM (#13988422)

There's a correlation between substance abuse (not addiction) and infections.

> “Chemsex is a rapidly emerging pattern of drug use, not just amongst men who have sex with men as often assumed, but heterosexual patients as well,” Dr Richard Ma of the Royal College of GPs’ Sex Drugs Group told the Telegraph. [https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/]

I see this as something related to the bar/disco/club culture rather than something linked to condoms.

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