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(1,308 posts)niyad
(113,348 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)Saltpeter (potassium nitrate) doesn't really have the affect that has been bally-hood. Just from personal experience, I was a prep-school attendee during the 60's and drank a lot orange juice. Didn't stop the wart-making.
Also, potassium nitrate is verboten to the common weal (whatever a weal is.) Ever since a couple of WHITE SUPREMACIST CRAZY TERRORISTS (USA TERRORISTS) discovered they could ATTACK THE US OF A using fertilizer. In case the NSA and FBI aren't listening by now - WHITE US TERRORISTS!
There is no medical evidence that saltpeter works. Castration, lobotomies, institutionalization are pretty effective. I'd suggest that every pederast and misbehaving member of congress get their choice of these.
When accosted: "Aim for the groin." That's the center of most politician's intelligence.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)One of the chemicals used to cure bacon is potassium nitrate, aka saltpeter.
If saltpeter caused impotence, people would not eat bacon.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)but the tiny amounts used in preserved meats wouldn't likely be enough to have much effect. Much of the nitrate is converted by bacteria to other nitrogen species. Surprisingly, nitrate may have health benefits (especially to kidneys) in small doses. But the alleged effect on male arousal seems to have no basis in fact.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...abortion would be a sacrament." -- Florynce Kennedy
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)judesedit
(4,439 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)All sperm is sacred years ago!!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-male-contraceptive-20170401-story.html
Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university startup in the heart of rural India.
Years of human trials on the injectable, sperm-zapping product are coming to an end, and researchers are preparing to submit it for regulatory approval. Results so far show it's safe, effective and easy to use-but gaining little traction with drugmakers. That's frustrating its inventor, who says his technique could play a crucial role in condom-averse populations.octors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university startup in the heart of rural India.
But, the pharma companies won't touch it, because it would cost them profits. I say you make it a law that males have to have the shot when they enter puberty. When they want the treatment reversed, they have to sign a legally binding document stating that they agree to be financially liable for any child they might have, regardless of whether they thought their partner was on birth control or not.
It is about time we forced men to take responsibility for real, instead of think men with multiple partners are studs and women who get an unwanted pregnancy are 'at fault'.
Damn these misogynists!