NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Calling it a breakthrough product for anybody not wishing to turn into pregnant, medical know-how big Johnson & Johnson introduced plans Thursday to convey to market a hormone-free IUD that wards off sperm with a gentle emission of police-grade pepper spray. “For years, sufferers have been in a position to decide on between a progestin-based or copper IUD, however quickly they’ll have a brand new possibility that leaves sperm burning, in ache, and fully incapable of fertilizing an egg,” stated firm spokesperson Mary Anne Firth, explaining that with its capability to disable sperm briefly, the T-shaped system’s steady stream of tactical pepper spray would additionally provide a nonlethal various to spermicides. “When ejaculate breaches the vaginal canal, it can encounter a torrent of chemical irritant boasting a warmth stage of two,000,000 Scoville models that disorients and incapacitates the sperm, inflicting every cell to wince in ache and clasp its infected head with its flagellum. Any eggs within the neighborhood will then have time to flee safely again up a fallopian tube whereas the semen is immobilized.” Johnson & Johnson acknowledged that the brand new product causes considerably much less bleeding than different hormone-free IUDs, particularly people who work by disabling sperm with a gentle spray of bullets.
