UK: Modern men too selfish to get 'the snip'?

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2012-12-31 21:05

Article here. Excerpt:

Yesterday, the Daily Mail published an article on the free-falling rate of UK vasectomies and implied that modern men are to blame.

In 2001-02, there were 37,700 procedures across England and Wales, compared with 15,106 in 2011. There's been a 16 per cent decline in the past two years alone.

According to the feature, which was written by Tom Rawstorne, many women across the country blame the decline on men being 'selfish'.

They also assume that male fertility is a ticking infidelity time bomb - something which should be treated as highly suspicious, not a natural human state.

I disagree.

The truth is that modern life, and medicine, has simply out-grown the vasectomy.'

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Hmmm, really? If a man's fathered three kids and he's decided at, say, age 50, he's *done*, then why not get one esp. if he's pretty sure he can't afford to be a daddy what with retirement expenses looming?

Or maybe he's decided he won't be part of the human demographic explosion that is sapping Earth's resources at an ever-expanding rate?

But I wonder this: When was the last time you read an article that faulted women for not getting tubal ligations?

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2012-12-31 22:46

to male birth control efforts? half a dozen pills invented to get it up and keep it there. btw, good work there guys/gals. wherever you are. good work. excellent work. fabulous. if ever we meet i'll buy your b... yeah. right. anyway,

female b.c. options are a dime a dozen, and like abortions, have entered the predictable realm of freebees/handouts; but, nothing to allow men to easily and completely control their own future? our magic pills also cost a small fortune, and even though they are usually for a medical problem, insurance seldom covers them.

lots of recent online references to the great future of m.b.c. - sometime soon - any day now. personaly, i think they just dug out some old '70's articles and rehashed them. any day now - soon to be on the market, etc. hmmm?

and i'm still suspicious. if men get these new magic pills, how will that affect the male/female dynamic? new laws to protect a woman's right to what? stay superior in the marriage contract?

husband: sorry honey, i've decided i don't really want children, right now anyways. you don't have a problem w/ that, do you honey?

he may need to, as a precaution, already have 911 on his phone's screen. the possibilities are incomprehendable.

very interesting.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2012-12-31 23:29