When Jana Pfenning, 25, and Rita Maglio, 24, met friends in a bar in February 2020, the young people discussed contraception at some point.

And although everyone, male, female and politically dispersed across all democratic parties, they ask themselves: Why has hardly anything changed on this very important, interpersonal issue since the 1960s?

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Several of the methods for men that you mention are about invasive interventions and thus at least psychologically a higher hurdle.

Similar arguments why men often shy away from a vasectomy, perhaps also because of the fear of losing their “manhood”.

Jana Pfenning: