Couples and male birth control pill

The article that I have picked to write about is “ Couples and the Male Birth Control Pill: A Future Alternative in Contraceptive Selection,” from the publication of The Journal of Sex Research. Written by William Marsiglio and Elizabeth G. Menaghan. First, the article focuses on male oral contraceptives, as to where the studied is conducted based on married couples selected from a newspaper. Secondly, the survey was put into two categories husbands that believed the woman was responsible for taking the contraceptive and husbands that would be opened to taking the responsibility of taking the contraceptive pill. When the researchers sent out the surveys they also included the diversity and when was the couple married and if they were expecting a child soon or not. Researchers, input the data making predictions throughout the years since the idea began in 1975-1980. In their data they included the sex roles of husbands more than wives. They also included spouse’s attitude towards the contraceptive, the method, and responsibility of the wife, and the concerned with the chemical reaction of the contraceptive. Finally, the article also mentioned many different hypothesis during the process of the surveys and the analysis of the year and male preferences towards the birth control. The results were the couple that had equal sex roles favored the idea of male birth control.
The article conducted a study on married couples that were selected from the newspaper that were under “Birth Listing” in Columbus, Ohio. The researchers took couples that had children within 4 to 15 months earlier. The ten page survey was only directed to married couples but that were also parents already. There was a follow up letter sent 9 days after the survey was taken. It was found in that survey that a low of 23.5% would take it out of 47 couples. Researchers conducted another survey also ten paged, towards highly educated couples that were college graduates that have been married for

Bibliography: Marsiglio, William, and Elizabeth G. Menaghan. "Couples and the Male Birth Control Pill: A Future Alternative in Contraceptive Selection." The Journal of Sex Research 28.1 (1987): 34-49. Web. Rathus, S.A., Nevid, J.S., & Fichner-Rathus, L. (2008). Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity: Seventh Edition. Pearson Education, Inc.