When it comes to contraception in straight cis couples, women are most often in charge. Still, there is a simple, inexpensive way to avoid getting pregnant: vasectomy. This internet user explains everything to us.
It is a nurse from Seine-et-Marne who is our favorite tweeters at the start of the year. Happy father, he explains, in a series of posts on Twitter and with a lot of humor, what vasectomy is. This method of male contraception is still not very widespread in France. Yet it is 100% safe and has few drawbacks. With his speech that has gone viral, our friend and poet intelligently poses the question of the contraceptive burden in cisgender and heterosexual couples. Here are his crisp explanations of vasectomy, so that "mentalities are changing".
The choice of vasectomy
I have two children, and not at all want to have more, let alone with someone other than the one I made them with. So I made the decision to make me clamp the merry. What is a vasectomy? It is a contraceptive technique which consists in cutting and / or blocking the vas deferens, and preventing small soldiers from going to the front. Or on the forehead, depending on your practices… Concretely, it lasts 10 minutes, it is under local anesthesia, and pain level, we are on the minimal level. But why does he want to be caught the glaouis, the gentleman?
Because, not very widespread in France (less than 3000 interventions per year), it is the contraceptive method that brings the least constraints and the fewest side effects (with tubal ligation). In addition, there are provisional methods, and others definitive. So even if in the end, you want to go back for a tour of diapers, cries, tears, teeth, you have the possibility of planning it. And for information, the average cost of a vasectomy is 65 €, reimbursed at 90%.
For egalitarian contraception
I don't even need to give you the average expenditure figures for female contraception, it's much higher. Not to mention hormonal imbalances, side effects linked to an IUD, an implant, the pill, etc. Even without the soldiers, the great totem pole will be there. You can always make Madam climb, without asking the question of "Wait, what day is it?"
All this for what ? Because it's time to take the parity bull by the horns. It also happens there. And it is also up to us to change mentalities. So gentlemen, go get your heads screwed. And protect yourself.
Read also: "Contraception: what are we waiting for to invent the pill for men?"
More info on vaso …
Convinced by this thread? Please note, before taking the plunge, that vasectomy does not protect against sexually transmitted infections. It is also a contraceptive solution to consider rather if you do not want / more child, because the rollback, called vasovasostomy, is effective in 70 to 90% of cases, and pregnancy follow-up in 50% of cases. On the other hand, no impact on pleasure or libido, unlike some other means of contraception. Only negative point: in France it can still be complicated to find a professional who agrees to perform the operation. Well done to our nurse for working to change mentalities!