Contraception has emerged as an important health issue as the world’s population continues to rise. New male contraceptive methods are likely to become a valuable tool in addition to other resources available for family planning. Having access to a wider range of contraceptive methods will improve population control efforts worldwide. For this review, Medline, PubMed, and EMBASE searches were performed using the terms "male Contraception, male contraceptive advances, and Contraception for men" in key word searches. Hits were restricted to resources written in [what languages?] and published between the years 1966-2007.  

Throughout history, there have always been different opinions about the necessity and methods of Contraception in different cultures. Persian medical scientists in the medieval era illustrated different contraceptive methods in their manuscripts. Avicenna, for example, discussed different types of contraceptive methods in Canon, one of the most important medical books written in the 10th century AD.In this paper, we describe the indications as well as two types of contraceptive methods derived from canon of Medicine: Physical & psychological methods and pharmacological Methods (Materia Medica). Reviewing such issues can not only present Avicenna’s professional and scientific knowledge but also help researchers in modern medicine to conduct experiments to find newer and more efficient prevention methods with fewer side effects.