Jarl
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Actually, a Vasectomy is a minimally invasive surgery (which I take to mean "as un-invasive as we can be when we go in through your pee-hole) and, as far as I know, and Wiki backs me up on this, it's reversible.
I actually got the idea when watching the oft-neglected last few seasons of Suddenly Susan (after the funny guy killed himself). In one episode, Susan believes she might be pregnant, a hope dashed when her long-term might-be-the-one boyfriend reveals he underwent a vasectomy when he was 14.
Later in the episode he has the vasectomy reversed. Amazing.
Gold, perhaps you thought I meant Castration. Castration involves the removal of the genitals. Vasectomies involve... and I'm going off very sketchy memories of numerous sitcoms as well as health classes throughout the ages... (and a few glances at wikipedia which eventually surrendered its knowledge of the procedure on the sterilization page) uh... they go in through the urethra and snip the tube, the vasa deferentia, that adds sperm into the semen, then ties it off, hence the "tubes tied" remark earlier, as it's basically a smaller-scale tubal ligation (when a woman gets her "tubes tied") with less mess and fuss and mortal peril.
I have actually thought about getting one. Not now, but in the future, when I get married and have a few kids, or maybe if the reversal procedure becomes more properly understood, in which case it would be like a long-term condom with a better success rate (100%) in the prevention of pregnancy.
Of course, they're "close" to a male contraceptive pill, which initially sounds nice but will likely have castration-like side-effects, as such a thing would basically be a milder version of chemical castration, a procedure already in practice.
I'm having crazy visions of "That Yellow *******" suddenly.
Anyways, Gold, if yer gonna leap from bed to bed of underage latinas with scary boyfriends between kung-fu gangwars, I suggest investing in some better protection than condoms or, god help us, coitus interruptus (skeeting), which does not in fact reduce the chance of pregnancy by any statistically significant margin. But if you've got your love glove on and she's on the pill (or using a female condom) then you've got a statistically satisfactory chance of not popping a bun in her oven.
Or getting the herpes.
You know, I recall our health teacher demonstrating the use of a female condom for us. It was hillarious... I just realized that that first sentence could be taken incorrectly, I mean she showed one to us and demonstrated how it is fitted using her hands. There was no nudity involved, except for a sketchy and crude drawing on the board that she used to illustrate the... uh... shape it takes when properly applied.
-And this pic reminds me of Gold.
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