The man who created the pill that gives couples the freedom to make carefree whoopee has cooked up some ideas for improved birth control methods, but said that the pill for men will be slow in coming.

Carl Djerassi, best known as the “father of the birth control pill,” kicked off a week of speakers for the Institute on World Affairs, focusing on population and development, with a speech in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union on Sunday night.

To an audience of approximately 150 people, Djerassi said that every 24 hours 100 million people have sexual intercourse. This number brings about several negative consequences, he said.

Of the 910,000 conceptions that result daily, 50 percent are unplanned pregnancies and one-fourth are unwanted pregnancies, Djerassi said.

Since so many of the children created by these couples are unwanted, often times the babies don’t make it. Every day there are 150,000 induced abortions, with 50,000 being illegally performed, Djerassi said.

With the help of birth control, people can make abortions unnecessary, he said.

“We ought to give condoms free to people. If some end up as water balloons, what’s the difference?” Djerassi asked.

Currently, most methods of stopping pregnancies are precoital, which means taking a precaution before intercourse. Djerassi believes that it would be more effective to use postcoital methods, which would be after intercourse.

He brought up the idea of an antifertility vaccine. Then, when couples wanted to have a child, the woman would be given something that would make her fertile again.

“It’s a mental shift in birth control. The natural state of affairs would be infertile, and then they would take something to be fertile,” he said.

Djerassi had a “wish list” that contained five ideas that he would like to see happen in birth control methods that are all scientifically feasible and “would make an enormous difference.”

Topping his list was a birth control pill that women would only have to take once a month, as opposed to daily.

“If I were a woman I would prefer this method. It would also cut down on pill taking,” he said.

Another idea was to find an easily reversible and reliable way to sterilize young males.

When they were older and wanted to have a family, the operation could be reversed, Djerassi said.

The male pill, another “wish” for Djerassi will probably not be available for up to 30 years, he said.

“There will be no male pill in our lifetimes, and it won’t make much difference whether women have different kinds of birth control methods or not,” he said.

At different times in a person’s life, they will most likely use different methods of preventing conception, Djerassi said. For instance, to a 20-year-old college woman, a pregnancy could be disastrous, but four years later it may not be as big of a deal.

“The cheapest thing would be to have free contraceptives for everybody,” he said.

Djerassi is a professor of chemistry at Stanford and the author of seven books, some which are collections of short stories and poems. Copies of his books were handed out free to students prior to his speech on Sunday night.

Djerassi was the first of several speakers who will be featured this week as part of the Institute of World Affairs.