You obviously don't know what a female goes through when it comes to menstruation or even, gasp, side effects from birth control. It's bad enough some guys get away with not using condoms regularly but it should be both parties responsibility. The girl has to carry the child, the least the guy can do is prevent an unwanted baby from coming before the couple is ready.

Well it was a study of only 320 participants so a 3% of them showing depression could've been huge once extrapolated to general population. And there were other problems with this study, including a suicide and some men not recovering fertility after ending treatment so

I care because limiting the population growth is important to me.

Please look up studies about depression and birth control before you focus just on this study. Some have a 60% chance of causing depression. If females can deal with menstruation cycles (without choice or serial activity) and preventing unwanted pregnancies while having similar side effects, if not worse, pretty sure 3% is not a large number for active men not ready for childcare.

I have literally never heard about people getting depressed because they are on the pill.. is this an american thing?

Most of the times, the girl/woman actually prefers to be on the pill. That way many skin problems go away and the periods are actually on time. Also you make it sound like men are to be blamed for the unpleasant experience of the menstruation - they are not.

Not most of the time. I guess we have different friends. Usually I've heard more of the side effects involving acne and mood swings. In fact, here is one site stating percentage by reason of use: "The study—based on U.S government data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)—revealed that after pregnancy prevention (86%), the most common reasons women use the pill include reducing cramps or menstrual pain (31%); menstrual regulation, which for some women may help prevent migraines and other painful “side effects” of menstruation (28%); treatment of acne (14%); and treatment of endometriosis (4%). " https://www.guttmacher.org/news-rele...eptive-reasons

As you can tell, the main reason is for contraception and most tend to have to try different brands to find the right fit. So, I'm not blaming men for anything. I'm saying if women can handle mood swings on a monthly basis after puberty, not on choice, then guys who are active can handle a little bit of depression when injected.

Men losing their fertility and committing, what a bunch of pansies!

Is there a more volatile "relationship" than ATRL with men?

The IRB is very strict when it comes to side effects so I wouldn't be surprised. Can you imagine the post-marketing reports?

Better safe than sorry.

Women's bodies are only for men's satisfaction, nothing new. If we didn't need to prevent pregnancy to accommodate the male instinct to not take responsibility for your actions, there wouldn't even be birth control for us, let's be real.

"Though men have an equal responsibility to prevent unwanted pregnancies, they don’t share equally in the consequences, and never have. The burden of birth control has always fallen largely on women’s shoulders; it is their bodies that will bear the consequences if birth control fails."

Side effects that women regularly deal with using birth control discussed
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...m_source=atlfb