{"id":135,"date":"2010-05-03T19:13:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T23:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=135"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:06:56","slug":"frailties-of-the-stronger-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2010\/05\/03\/frailties-of-the-stronger-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Frailties of the stronger sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The prospect of a male pill has appeared on the horizon various times over the last 50 years, but the issue of side effects scuttled every effort. Scientists, May reports, \u201cactually discovered an effective vaccine that completely stopped the production of sperm without interfering with sex drive.\u201d But it also made users\u2019 testicles shrink by a third, so the researchers abandoned it, concluding, \u201cThe psychological trauma of shrinking testes just cannot be overcome.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=what_the_pill_gave_birth_to\">What the Pill Gave Birth To<\/a>,\u201d Michelle Goldberg\u2019s review of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0465011527?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theamerpros-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465011527\">America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation<\/a><\/em> by Elaine Tyler May, Basic Books, 224 pages, $25.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a male pill has appeared on the horizon various times over the last 50 years, but the issue of side effects scuttled every effort. Scientists, May reports, \u201cactually discovered an effective vaccine that completely stopped the production of sperm without interfering with sex drive.\u201d But it also made users\u2019 testicles shrink by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2010\/05\/03\/frailties-of-the-stronger-sex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frailties of the stronger sex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}