Okay, so I pulled the set off and formally referred to as a vasectomy the “new condom” within the press. Sounds loopy, eh? In fact, a vasectomy doesn’t shield you from sexually transmitted illnesses like a condom. However, relating to fertility, vasectomies are extra reversible than beforehand thought.
Reversal Analysis Outcomes
Right here’s the straightforward cause why I equated condoms to vasectomies: we’ve now reached the tipping level wherein the failure price of condoms (i.e. undesirable being pregnant price) is now the identical or larger than the failure price of vasectomies (to be efficiently reversed).
Truthfully, the epiphany got here after reviewing the findings from our lately printed collection of over 1200 vasectomy reversal sufferers. Listed below are the stats surrounding the boys we studied: they averaged nearly 42 years previous (vary 22–72 years) and had a imply vasectomy age of 10 years (vary 1–38 years!). No matter affected person age or vasectomy age, we discovered that sperm counts have been maintained at about the identical excessive ranges after reversal. Yup, 84% of all males, throughout any and all vasectomy ages within the examine, had motile ejaculated sperm return after reversal. That’s a lotta sperm in a lotta males!
Mano-a-Mano: Vasectomy and Condom
Did I overextend myself (once more) by evaluating a vasectomy to condoms? I actually don’t imply to be a disruptor! So, determine for your self. Right here is an easy, face to face comparability to see if the details match the assertion:
| Salient Function | Condom | Vasectomy |
| Failure price | 20% (actual world) | <1% |
| High quality of intercourse life | Low | Excessive (besides after procedures) |
| Reversibility | 100% | 75-99% (see the paper) |
No Glove, No Love
Even in case you have by no means skilled them, belief me after I say that condoms are an annoyance to many males. Who actually enjoys stopping a most pleasant and cherished exercise to cloak the joker or don the jimmy hat? And who, if anybody, has ever measured the impact of condom use on sexual high quality of life? Examine that to a vasectomy: A weekend popping drugs and sporting frozen peas after which all is effectively once more. No muss, no fuss. And much more kid-proof.
So, for a second, let’s have a good time the vasectomy…and its reversibility. For it’s not so simple as “all good issues should come to an finish.” Its actually about issues coming to an finish precisely whenever you need them to.
This text was initially printed by Dr. Paul Turek on his weblog, www.theturekclinic.com.