“All I have is sperm,” Akash Bakshi says. “I’m just looking at sperm counts.” A biochemist by training, Bakshi could become the first biotech company chief executive officer to bring a hormone-free male birth control pill to market.
Currently the only widely used forms of contraception available to men are condoms and vasectomies. There’s a substantial potential market for other methods. A 2018 study in *Lancet Global Health* found that almost half of all pregnancies in the US and worldwide are unintended.
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“All I have is sperm,” Akash Bakshi says. “I’m just looking at sperm counts.” A biochemist by training, Bakshi could become the first biotech company chief executive officer to bring a hormone-free male birth control pill to market.
Currently the only widely used forms of contraception available to men are condoms and vasectomies. There’s a substantial potential market for other methods. A 2018 study in *Lancet Global Health* found that almost half of all pregnancies in the US and worldwide are unintended.
New contraceptive methods are in trials, but can companies get men to buy in? [Click here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-28/the-future-of-male-birth-control-could-be-pills-gels-and-implants) for the full story.
I’m old enough to remember male birth control being just a few short years away when I was in high school in 2004-2006.
At this point we’ll have a lunar colony before male birth control.