Attitudes towards the male contraceptive pill: psychosocial and cultural explanations for delaying a marketable product

Basic and Clinical Andrology - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 171-179 - 2012
Anna van Wersch1, Judith Eberhardt1, F. Stringer1
1Faculty of Social Science and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK

Tóm tắt

Abstract Even though years of research on the male contraceptive pill have been conducted, a marketable product is still absent from the arsenal of male and female products of contraception. In this paper, the following psychosocial and cultural factors have been elicited from the literature in order to reveal explanations for this delay: acceptability, trust, fear of side-effects, perceptions of contraceptive responsibility and fear of losing connotations of masculinity. Regardless of cultural variation, overall there seems to be a positive attitude towards the acceptability of male contraceptive for both males and females, especially males in stable relationships. Some indication shows that the media have played an important role in distorting the results of research regarding male and female trust. Ongoing and future researches into several projects on psychosocial and cultural factors are described.

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