Spring Break
Summer love is in the air, are we ready for male birth control?
Phoenix Mourning-Star
Issue date: 5/7/09 Section: Opinion
The end of the semester gets crazy -- especially in the spring when the semester has been long and summer beckons.
People are tense around here: N1H1 flu spreading as far as panic and media will take it, the struggling economy "reviving" by the same sketchy financial-political schemes that got us into trouble, tuition going through the roof with no place to get loans, still dodgy political appointments and disputed elections.
It seems like the world is gripped by an air of depression -- a situation that time and time again for college students gets associated with low funds, unemployment and boredom.
Luckily, here in Colorado, we have plenty of distractions even during these hard times -- hundreds of square-miles of open space, wilderness, hiking and biking trails, lakes and plenty of beautiful sunsets and sunrises ... it's nothing less than romantic.
Speaking of romance, spring has finally won out over an indecisive winter, which means summer love is in the air.
The coming conclusion of the spring semester and the contrasting great weather during the week and crappy-cloudy weekends of late seem to bring a special meaning to a blurb I found on the Australian Courier News site: "New male jab 'as effective as the pill.'"
It's finally on the way -- "the Pill" for men. Although it comes in the form of a shot, a recent trial in China of over 1,000 healthy men provided the most recent evidence of a successful new form of contraceptive that puts more choices in the hands of the male. Good news? Maybe.
As I browsed the Internet and World Health Organization's literature on the topic, it became clear that this isn't a new endeavor, which conjured thoughts of how this will be brought up in political arenas.
In 2006, when I lived in Vermont, I worked with Planned Parenthood of New England's political action committee and public relations manager negotiating the minefield of Plan B legislation and providers. Albeit a bit less controversial than Plan B, I expect there will be some interesting debate before the new male injection is brought to market -- which is at least 5 years away.
People are tense around here: N1H1 flu spreading as far as panic and media will take it, the struggling economy "reviving" by the same sketchy financial-political schemes that got us into trouble, tuition going through the roof with no place to get loans, still dodgy political appointments and disputed elections.
It seems like the world is gripped by an air of depression -- a situation that time and time again for college students gets associated with low funds, unemployment and boredom.
Luckily, here in Colorado, we have plenty of distractions even during these hard times -- hundreds of square-miles of open space, wilderness, hiking and biking trails, lakes and plenty of beautiful sunsets and sunrises ... it's nothing less than romantic.
Speaking of romance, spring has finally won out over an indecisive winter, which means summer love is in the air.
The coming conclusion of the spring semester and the contrasting great weather during the week and crappy-cloudy weekends of late seem to bring a special meaning to a blurb I found on the Australian Courier News site: "New male jab 'as effective as the pill.'"
It's finally on the way -- "the Pill" for men. Although it comes in the form of a shot, a recent trial in China of over 1,000 healthy men provided the most recent evidence of a successful new form of contraceptive that puts more choices in the hands of the male. Good news? Maybe.
As I browsed the Internet and World Health Organization's literature on the topic, it became clear that this isn't a new endeavor, which conjured thoughts of how this will be brought up in political arenas.
In 2006, when I lived in Vermont, I worked with Planned Parenthood of New England's political action committee and public relations manager negotiating the minefield of Plan B legislation and providers. Albeit a bit less controversial than Plan B, I expect there will be some interesting debate before the new male injection is brought to market -- which is at least 5 years away.
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