Dan Bucatinsky: More Than I Can Chew
Would your family consider a vasectomy?
Filed under: Just For Dads, Your Pregnancy, Health & Safety: Babies, In The News, Resources, Sex
Back in the days before Eve Ensler, the word 'vagina' was the verboten V-word. Now, it seems, there is another V-word on the horizon that people -- well, guys -- refuse to discuss, let alone think about: the vasectomy. Women have long-regarded the vasectomy as an easier, safer way toward permanent birth-control. Well, it's semi-permanent, actually, because it is a reversible procedure. Men regard it as little more than butchery. Women could get their tubes tied, the men say. Men could wear a condom, the women say. Men say that would reduce their feeling. Women say, well, tough!
But what about the vasectomy, really? Modern medicine would say it is a simpler and safer procedure than tubal ligation. It's also cheaper. There's also a new non-scalpel version on the market (my husband says don't even think of mentioning the words 'scalpel' and 'penis' in the same sentence; it turns him green). The result of unwanted pregnancy after a vasectomy is also low at 1 in 1,000.
It's also a procedure no one is really using. Why? Well, there is the obvious concern that my husband put so well. Then there are the myths that having a vasectomy reduces testosterone, etc. that still float around us like so much hot air. There's also the fear of having a needle stuck in one's weewee, which has been replaced by jet-powered anesthesia.
What about your family? Once you reached the optimal number of children (or no children!) what method of birth control did you or are you employing? Was vasectomy an option, or was it verboten?
Pic by Marshall Astor-Food Pornographer.
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7-08-2008 @ 11:02PM
Misty said...My husband always SWORE he would NEVER get a vasectomy-until we had a 'surprise'. Then, he got insurance from work only for himself (because of the cost) and before he had a chance to have the 'V' done, I found out I was preggers with surprise #2 (child #4). He couldn't get himself to the urologist fast enough. It took him about a week to fully recover but it was SO WORTH IT!!!
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7-19-2008 @ 11:23PM
gloria said...We just use the Depoprovera shot. It allows him to not use the condom and I don't have to take pills everyday. Vasectomies are definitely not something he's thinking about.
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