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...various substances injected under their skin to gauge their effect; the pay was $6 per visit to the doctor. More controversial was testing in connection with development of a male contraceptive pill. Volunteers received $10 a month for weekly sperm specimens, plus $25 for periodic biopsies of the scrotal skin. After a year, they were paid a $100 bonus, and underwent mandatory vasectomies because, in some cases, their testicles had been exposed to the possibility of radiation damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Cons as Guinea Pigs | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Maraventano freed the obscured clitoris-like penis, closed up the vagina-like introitus, moved the testicle into a scrotal sac formed from the labia majora. Then he made a canal in the freed penis. After the surgery was completed, a series of treatments with testosterone, the male sex hormone, followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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