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IDK if i have a partner i want them to be comfortable. Idk whether there's just a lot of incels in powerful places or men have historically just hated the women they're with. Either way that's one reason I don't identify as a man.
I wonder if actually helpful PMS medication would cannibalize e.g. pain medication sales. Generic viagra is super cheap, and in the study they used just one dose. So if that's the actual dosage required in the end, that could cost the pharmaceuticals industry money.
Similar to with vas occlusive contraception. It's really easy, simple, dirt cheap, lasts long, is reversible, non-hormonal, no side effects male contraception. It's basically the perfect contraception and it's the only reversible long-term contraception that men can use.
But it was dropped because it would pretty much annihilate the female contraceptive industry, which makes a huge amount of money each year.
Quote from the Wiki article on RISUG, the form of Vas-occlusive contraception that came closest to getting to market:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance
Yeah i generally assume decisions like these are profit/hate driven. If you can make a market case, even mildly convincing that profits will be hit, it's going to be researched enough to get copyright and bury as long as possible.
Just can't imagine being one of those researchers(if they knew/weren't duped), board members or marketing fucks going home to someone who thinks they're loved, watching them writhe in pain, and think, "yeah I'm gonna be so rich!"