"...no pharmaceutical company is interested in developing a male pill. Not one."
According to this Yahoo News story entitled: "Father of birth control pill says male version possible, unlikely":
"Pharmaceutical companies could produce a male contraceptive pill but do not, because men would refuse to take it, one of the pioneers of female oral birth control pills said in an interview published in Portugal.
"It would be possible to make a male pill today. We know how hormones work and we could use the same principles that are used to make the female pill," Carl Djerassi, 82, told weekly news magazine "Sabado".
"The problem is that men are afraid to lose their virility. Even if taking a pill carries only a remote chance of impotence, they won't take the chance," he added.
Djerassi said he had a vasectomy shortly after he turned 60 but "many men think they can become fathers when they are in their 60s or 70s and don't want to lose that privilege."
"For this reason no pharmaceutical company is interested in developing a male pill. Not one," he added.
"Born in Austria, Djerassi moved to the United States in 1941 where he was educated. In 1951 he led a research team which completed the synthesis of norethindrone, later to become the active component of the birth control pill, while working for US pharmaceutical giant Syntex."
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