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Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The other party still has to trust that you actually got it and all the rest of the sperm have passed.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lab tested and certified baby, I’d put it on my resume if that wasn’t weird

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would have to add some cryptography to that certificate to make it trustless.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

New cryptocurrency in 3... 2...

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was just thinking about good old fashioned PGP lol.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Penis Gay Pregnancy

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But then you're trusting every doctor's office to only sign off on men that are snipped. You need a decentralized oracle with random inspections from local sperm auditors.

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, a baseline trust in medical practice should be a given. Maybe not.