Men, Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies by Turning Off Your Sperm via Remote Control

If you think about it, most of the contraceptives that are available are really wasteful (how many condoms litter the landfills? How many litter the streets of the city you live in? Eww). Now there’s an option available that not only eliminates the environmental impact, it will make you feel like you’ve entered the age of hovercrafts and moon dwellings. Men love using remote controls to change the channel on the television, so maybe some of you will be psyched about using a remote control to ‘turn off’ your sperm.

The Green Daily has it:

Australian scientists have apparently figured out how to insert a microchip in the vas deferens (that’s the part of the male equipment that delivers semen - it’s also the tube that gets snipped when a guy gets a vasectomy).

When the man is about to have sex, and doesn’t want procreation to result, he can press “pause” on a device that sends RF waves to his intimate microchip. The chip translates the waves into acoustic waves, which then cause the chip to expand, blocking sperm from passing through the vas deferens. When the man wants to switch back to having possibly reproductive sex, no return visit to the doc is necessary - he just presses the reverse function button, and the chip contracts, allowing sperm to pass.

It’s certainly an interesting mashup of sex, technology and green. The future is now. I don’t know how many men will be willing to have this thing implanted in their vas deferens, but it’s nice that men can now experience how invasive some methods of birth control can be. I mean, women have been walking around with little pieces of plastic or copper (intrauterine devices) in their bodies to prevent pregnancy for years. Ours just don’t come with the radio wave remote control aspect. So, maybe that will make it more attractive to all you eco geeks out there. You can feel like you’re doing your part to save the world from overpopulation with some super crazy futuristic technology. Fun!

Link [Green Daily]
Photo credit: Flickr user frenkieb

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