After being adopted for use in China, the NHDO began manufacturing and prescribing male oral contraceptives in 1985. At the time, it was entirely unknown that they caused infertility, though other side effects were known and the introduction of supplementary potassium was begun as an attempt to counteract them. In 1991 it was made a condition for receipt of the Social Wage that men take regular contraception. It was claimed that this policy was adopted in order to prevent the birth of children dependent on the State and as a deterrent for men who were still able to find work relatively easily while not actually introducing a requirement for work. Men were subject to random urine tests to test their concordance. In 1997, it became public knowledge that by the time this requirement was propo
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