Hallelujah! A contraceptive pill for men has been created and the results are in after undergoing its first clinical trial. The overall verdict? It’s a success!

Up until now, birth control has been a responsibility that women have heavily taken on due to the shittiness of the alternatives: excuses, condoms, vasectomies, and the good ol’ “pull out” method.

“I don’t like the way it feels.”

“I’ll pull out in time, I promise!” Yeah, yeah. How many “surprises” have happened due to that one?

In their defense, condoms do take away some of the sensation while they’re attacking the pink fortress. Also, have you ever been a tad dryer down there than usual and tried to “get it in”?

Not fun.

The idea of a male contraceptive isn’t new, but attempts at them in the past have been pretty unsuccessful because men’s bodies absorbed and got rid of the hormones in previously tested contraceptives. Because of this, most efforts have been redirected toward injections and topical gels.

The new male contraceptive pill, dimethandrolone undecanoate, or DMAU (which is fun to say, by the way. DMAU. DMAU. DMAU chickawowow), has been successfully tested at the University of Washington Medical Center on 83 out of 100 men aged 18-50 who saw it through. The pill contains a long-chain fatty acid that keeps it from being absorbed too quickly, making a once daily dose possible. Because can you even imagine trying to remind a man to do something more than once every day? F that. Similar to oral contraceptives for women, DMAU combines a male hormone – androgen — and a female hormone – progestin — in order to work.

Men who took DMAU showed “marked suppression” of hormones necessary for producing little swimmers. While this is huge, a downside (that totally sounds like something a bunch of dudes made up) is that the pill only works if taken with food.

All test subjects experienced weight gain but passed safety tests, and women everywhere are probably way too excited that men finally get to know what it feels like to gain weight for no goddamned reason.

Professor Stephanie Page, who is the senior investigator for this study, said, “Despite having low levels of circulating testosterone, very few subjects reported symptoms consistent with testosterone deficiency or excess.”

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for not having to be the sole worrier over birth control and needing to stick weird things in and around our vaginas to keep babies from falling out of them.