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When Hong Kong asked for men to be birth-control-pill guinea pigs
“Wanted: 15 healthy Chinese males willing to help mankind, receive free medical care for 10 months, be paid $200 and test a new male contraceptive ‘pill’,” reported the South China Morning Post on January 26, 1977. “This was the plea from the Hongkong …