Flagstaff startup works on injectable male birth control [Video]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — L.R. Fox is the CEO of a birth control company, so you’ll have to excuse the excitement when he starts talking about, well, birth control. It’s “the holy grail,” he says. A fertility “light switch” with “no notable side effects.”

It is male birth control. Fox is the CEO of the Flagstaff biotech startup NEXT Life Sciences, which is testing what they call “Plan A” – a non-hormonal, long-lasting and reversible birth control for men.

“That means you set it and you forget about it until you are ready to have kids, and you turn it off,” Fox said.

The product, and ones like it, has been eagerly awaited for years. Discussion around it has become more prominent in the last few days since …