Today marks International Men's Day with the focus this year on men's reproductive issues such as a lack of reproductive choices, family planning, sexual health, and safe sexual practices.
Not too long ago I came across an article that scientists in India had developed a
birth control injection for men that is has an overwhelming success rate, low side effects, is effective for 10 years, is completely reversible with another injection and is touted as being cheaper than the syringe used to inject it...back in the 1970s. [cynical asshole]But there's no money to be made on a super cheap one time injection that lasts a decade, so fuck it.[/cynical asshole]
Some of the past issues IMD has tried to raise awareness of has been helping men improve their life expectancy, tackling violence against men and boys, the raising rates of suicide among men, the failing of men and boys in the educational system and how society tolerates violence against men among other things as well as domestic violence against men.