Vasectomy... All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
So today on the walk back to my car after work, I found my mind wandering to the subject of self-sterilization. With two healthy beautiful boys, I feel like my reproductive efforts on the planet are done, and I can check out of the gene pool safely knowing my wacky code has been morphed and replicated in some fashion into the future. And yet, I am not quite ready to enter under the knife for elective surgery to get my testicles split open and modified. Yes, I know it's a safe procedure. Yes, I know I don't want any more kids, and yet I have a ways to go before I call up the doctor and set up the appointment. There are philosophical questions about reducing your choices (yes, yes, I know it's reversible. But shit, like I want to get my nuts cut TWICE in one lifetime?!). Mainly, I just hate surgery and wouldn't generally choose to elect for any sort. And yet, I know that it's unfair to ask Julie to continue to pump hormones into her body with a question of what the long term affects would be, just so that we don't have to use condoms. And hell if we want to use condoms for the rest of our fertility lives -- that just ain't gonna happen. So, in the long run, it's the most sensible thing to do. So, I guess I'm taking mental forays into the subject, getting myself emotional acquainted with the concept. Anyone out there get a vasectomy yet? Bueller? Bueller? Maybe I'll be a trend setter. Hope they don't miss and really screw me up. I'll be starring in Hedwig II.
I obviously have not had one, however at least 2 of my friends have and both said they would not do it again, if given the choice. They agreed that ejaculation was just not nearly as pleasurable after the procedure was done. This was not just a few weeks after it was done, but forever. Just an fyi.
Well DAMN! That's pretty much a huge strike against it. I'll have to look even more closely into this issue than I previously thought.
Josh, you do know that they don't actually cut your testicles open... It's just cauterizing a tiny little pipe through a tiny incision - not actually slicing any nads open...
Hadn't heard the less-pleasurable-after-V comment before (haven't had one yet - it's on the to-do list). Could that be psychological? Knowing that it's biologically inert? I mean... Where's the excitement if you _know_ nothing can go wrong? :-)
while there is some validity to the idea that less pleasure ejaculating after a vasectomy may be partially psychological one would assume in that case that masturbating would be just as good as before the vasectomy, but intercourse would not be as pleasurable due to it's biological inertness. Right? I support whatever you boys decide of course. It definitely has it's pros and cons like all other birth control.