A few days ago we talked about the vasectomy because, being an irreversible intervention, there are those who do not quite understand that a man can do it, because you never know what life will hold and in case of separation you can not have more sons.
The controversy is relatively absurd, because if a man has made the sure decision that he has considered all possible future realities, but in case anyone is not at all convinced, he can always wait because the reversible alternative to vasectomy could come in 2017.
That is the date, at least, given by the researchers responsible for developing the Vasalgel, a contraceptive whose function is to block the passage of sperm so that semen does not carry even one of them.
When a man has a vasectomy, his vas deferens are cut and healed so that sperm can no longer circulate through them. He Vasalgel It is a gel that is injected into the same vas deferens, obtaining the same result, but leaving the ducts intact. If, over the months or years, man wants to be fertile again, a new injection manages to undo the gel and allows the ducts to be permeable again.
The product already exists and works well with rabbits. Now the company that created it must start studies with monkeys, and then with humans, but they have a financing problem: no pharmaceutical company has been interested in the product because we are talking about a single injection with lasting effect, and not about pills that They should be taken daily. Come on it doesn't matter because people will spend little money on it, while the monthly contraceptive box generates many more benefits.
Given this situation, they have started a donation campaign to obtain the funds that will allow them to study with monkeys and finally with humans. They calculate that it will be ready, as we have commented, for the year 2017.
The question is, since without money there is no research, if they will be able to move forward with the project. The idea is good, the product, if it works, much better than vasectomy, since it is not a surgical intervention and because it is reversible, but of course, good ideas do not always go ahead for the reasons already mentioned.
