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Lenny Smalls, whose Facebook page says he lives in Chicago and works as a transportation analyst, is very interested in long-acting, reversible male contraception. According to his posts on a fan page for one form being tested -- known as RISUG or Vasalgel -- Smalls is sufficiently frustrated by the pace of such drugs coming to the U.S. market to have begun personally testing an Indonesian herbal product called gandarusa.

"I plan to become the guinea pig and test this products effect on myself and my sperm," he wrote recently. "I will take 1 pill daily and record how I feel everyday. After 30 days, I will see my doctor and have my sperm tested to see if it was effected by the supplement." Earlier this week, Smalls' plan ran into a hitch when the first doctor he saw refused to cooperate...
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