{"id":35945,"date":"2017-04-06T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-its-completely-reversible"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:51","slug":"this-new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-its-completely-reversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-its-completely-reversible","title":{"rendered":"This New Type of Male Contraceptive Not Only Prevents Babies; It\u2019s Completely Reversible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-its-completely-reversible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, men have had only two serious options for preventing baby-making: condoms or \u2018the snip\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A promising new product could be set to change all that, with animal trials indicating that it\u2019s not only close to 100 percent effective, but that it can also be fully reversed, making it less drastic than the vasectomy while still offering similar benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Trademarked under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parsemusfoundation.org\/projects\/vasalgel\/\">Vasalgel<\/a>, the contraceptive is a polymer gel being developed by the non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parsemusfoundation.org\/history\/\">Parsemus Foundation<\/a> in California, which aims to \u201cfind low cost solutions that have been neglected by the pharmaceutical industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-type-of-male-contraceptive-not-only-prevents-babies-it-s-completely-reversible\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-type-of-male-contraceptive-n...reversible<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, men have had only two serious options for preventing baby-making: condoms or \u2018the snip\u2019. A promising new product could be set to change all that, with animal trials indicating that it\u2019s not only close to 100 percent effective, but that it can also be fully reversed, making it less drastic than the vasectomy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58146,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35945\/revisions\/58146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}