“Don’t touch my penis. » Laughing or resolutely defensive, this is one of the average male reactions to the testimonies of men sharing their experience of vasectomy on Twitter for educational purposes. There are those who, seemingly nothing, inquire. “What are the risks of breaking the machine? » “Did you have a lot of pain? » To which must be added the anguish of virility who insult and condemn to loathing this damn era which promotes “castration by feminist ideal”.
No offense to them, today more and more men are resorting to this surgical procedure. “Contraceptive sterilization” has only been authorized in France for adults – men or women – since the law of July 4, 2001. Regarding vasectomy, the number of interventions reimbursed in public hospitals and in the private sector was only 1,908 in 2010. It amounted to 23,306 for the year 2021 alone, according to the latest data from Medicare.
Aymeric Deheurles, 41, passed the milestone in 2022. “When my wife and I met, we both wanted childrenremembers this computer scientist, also elected to the town hall of Toulouse. She wanted four, I wanted two. After our second child, she settled down in my opinion. » Aymeric had been thinking about a vasectomy for a long time, but he had to go through one “journey” to decide. “Ten years ago, I was still very poorly informed about male contraception, and it was accepted that contraception necessarily passed through the woman. At 40, I had a mini-crisis that led me to ask myself all kinds of questions. I told myself that it was my turn to take charge of the contraception so that my wife would no longer have to undergo this mental burden. And then there are all those chemical substances contained in the contraceptives which play on the hormones. »
Often already fathers
The more frequent recourse to vasectomy could indeed be partly due to what Mireille Le Guen, demographer at the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), and her colleagues in the Contraception & Gender junior laboratory describe as “pill crisis” in the newsletter People & Societies (November 2017). In 2012, Marion Larat was the first Frenchwoman to file a complaint against a third-generation contraceptive pill. She accused him of being responsible for the stroke she had suffered and which left her severely disabled. Since then, even if oral contraceptives remain the first method of contraception used in France, their sale has been steadily declining. For Mireille Le Guen, this “pill crisis” has also been “to a certain extent, the opportunity to question male responsibility in matters of contraception”.
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