Women have been using the birth control pill as an oral contraceptive to prevent pregnancy since 1960. Men have had to turn to contraceptives like condoms or more permanent means, like vasectomies, to prevent pregnancies. But that may be changing. Researchers at a university in Australia say they may be close to developing a male oral contraceptive. RT’s Ameera David asks Elaine Lissner, the director of the Male Contraception Information Project, about what has taken so long to get men their own version of “The Pill.”
