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...According to Kirsten Thompson, director of the Male Contraception Coalition, if Phase III clinical trials were to begin tomorrow on some of those discarded drugs, men would probably have their pick of contraceptive gels or implants - just like women - within five years. Yet, she says, drug companies still aren't interested. Though industry representatives refused to speak to the marketability question for this article, one spokeswoman for Organon, Monique Mols, told the industry journal Chemistry World in 2007, "Despite 20 years of research, the development of a [hormonal] method acceptable to a wide population of men is unlikely...
...even a small percentage of sexually active men agreed to try a new method of birth control, that would amount to a colossal number of potential consumers. That's why Thompson doesn't believe the drug industry's hesitance to develop male hormonal birth control is merely about money. "The biggest hurdle that I've encountered in trying to share this information is a sort of knee-jerk reaction that men aren't interested in these kinds of contraceptives and that women won't trust them to take them," she says. "Neither of those assertions are supported by the data...
...such a tourist," Sebastian Flyte chides his college chum when they arrive at the titular house. But gawking is the appeal of this not-mandatory version of the Evelyn Waugh novel. Much is made of the beauty and danger of faith, stately piles and statelier moms (Emma Thompson is the matriarch). It's nice enough to visit, maybe...
...floor. Soon enough they're dining on plover's eggs and mooning over one another. Sebastian introduces Charles to his family - in this film living in a statelier home than any Masterpiece Theater ever dreamed of - which includes his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and his sternly religious mother (Emma Thompson, splendidly playing as far from her usual inviting self as it's possible to get). Now Charles and Julia start eyeing one another, Sebastian starts drinking himself into oblivion, and a happily romantic ending to the Charles-Julia relationship is narrowly averted...
...This new version of the story, directed by Julian Jarrold and written by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, makes the homoerotic attraction between Charles and Sebastian more overt than it was in either the book or the TV series, but its acting - Thompson excepted - is more well-spoken than emotionally forceful. Indeed, the whole film seems to me more polite, less savage, than it might have been. It's possible to argue that that's true of its source material, as well - Waugh wrote the book in about four months, and that haste shows in its lack of intense tragic...