For thousands of years man and woman kind have being trying to prevent the unwanted patter of tiny feet.

Primitive woman used dung and honey to stop pregnancy, put round stones in camels wombs, drank water which was used to wash the dead and took gunpowder-based concoctions.

The rhythm method was popular in the 1400s and Victorian woman used a block pessary, a six-sided piece of wood with concave sides which was supposed to cover the cervix.

Fortunately, times have moved on. Around the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries scientists gained a greater understanding of the female body and ovulation and hormones but it was 1960 before the first Pill was available on the market.

Other options today include the coil, cap, Femidom, the morning-after pill and pill injections, although everything has had its disadvantages.

Much of the responsibility, however, has generally fallen on the woman.

Men have only had the choice of the rubber condom, invented in 1844, withdrawal method, the snip or abstaining.

Now, though, they can could be given the convenience women have benefited from for more than 40 years with a male Pill.

A number of trials have been going on to give men more options.

UK scientists have discovered hormone replacement therapy could hold the key to developing a Pill which would suppress sperm production.

But it could be another ten years before it is available for use.

Shering Health Care, which is based in Burgess Hill, is involved in trials for another type of male Pill in the form of an implant which could be available on the NHS within three years.

The implant is inserted beneath the skin on one arm and releases progestogen, the synthetic form of the female hormone, progesterone, which reduces sperm production.

The progestogen also inhibits the production of testosterone so the man has an injection of testosterone in his buttocks every three months to stop side effects such as fatigue, hair loss and low sex drive.

It has not been decided how long the implant can stay in for.

So will men want to carry this implant in their arm and be subjected to an injection in their backside every three months?

And would a woman trust a man who says he has it? Like the women's Pill, it also isn't a barrier against sexually-transmitted diseases.

We put the prospect of the male contraceptive implant to both sexes and asked him would he use it and asked her should he use it and would she trust a man who said he was using it?