Would women trust their partners to use a male pill?
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Human Reproduction
- Vol. 15 (3), 646-649
- https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/15.3.646
Abstract
Despite a renewed interest in the development of hormonal contraceptives for men, many discussions about the potential acceptability of a `male pill' end by speculating whether women would trust their partners to use the method reliably. To determine the views of women, we undertook a survey of 1894 women attending family planning clinics in Scotland (450), China (900) and South Africa (544). In all centres over 65% of women thought that the responsibility for contraception falls too much on women. More than 90% in South Africa and Scotland thought that a `male pill' was a good idea, with Chinese women (71% in Hong Kong and 87% in Shanghai) only slightly less positive. Only 13% of the total sample did not think that hormonal male contraception was a good idea and only 36 women (2% of the total) said that they would not trust their partner to use it. 78% of Scottish women, 71% of Shanghai women, and 78% of white women and 40% of black and coloured women in Cape Town thought that they would use the method. This survey should dispel the myth that women would not trust their partners to use a `male pill' reliably and illustrates the potential market for the method.Keywords
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