One prevention option is not enough.

The phrase “male birth control” is one you don’t hear very often. That is because, at present, men have very few options when it comes to pregnancy prevention. Men are limited to five choices; abstinence, condom, outercourse (without vaginal or anal penetration), withdrawal (pulling out), and vasectomy but if you break them down really, there's only one, why? Because two of those options involve not having penetrative sex, and the other option is to be sterilized permanently and why should we waste time on withdrawal? Leaving condom as the only option.

What I wanna know is why do guys have limitations when it comes to preventing, and we women have plenty of options? I'm not trying to be sexist, I feel like I am raising a valid point. When people are in a relationship, and they decide that they don't want a baby, the woman has to be the one to take birth control pills, injections, implants and what not.

We could all use condoms. Maybe I am going about this the wrong way, but I don't see the need for us to ruin our bodies for men. In our country, no one has ever mentioned anything about men taking pills to prevent, why is that?

If people were able to create prevention pills for women, why can't they do the same for men? If they are afraid that creating pills for men can cause harm to their health, how sure are they that they are not causing damage to women's health? They allow us to take those pills and injections knowing very well that they have harmful side effects. We could just stick to condoms with the 99% guaranteed safety that is very debatable.

Why should we sacrifice ruining our bodies whereas these men can get also have more than one prevention method that can even be less harmful than those women have? I mean it's not hard to come up with a prevention strategy. They came up with one for women. Why are men limited to using condoms?

According to Kingsley Confidential post "What Are Men’s Options To Prevent Pregnancy? "https://kinseyconfidential.org/mens-options-prevent-pregnancy/" there is an idea being tested in the US called Vasalgel, where men have to put in a gel in the tubes to block sperms. But there’s is no funding for developers from the pharmaceutical industry, "companies within the pharmaceutical industry express skepticism that a product like this would ever be successful and are also motivated by a desire to avoid losing the millions they make on women’s multi-dose contraceptives that could be replaced with a one-time cheap injection for men."

Better yet, do you think South Africa is ready for the political debate this will cause?