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How Silicon Valley Will Replace Condoms

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With support from tech heavyweights, Contraline could be the first non-condom male birth control to make it to market—but not until 2020.

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Male birth control, like death, is always just around the corner.

In 2014, the hope was that Vasalgel, a non-hormonal polymer gel that can be injected into the vas deferens, would hit the market by 2017.

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