Gratuitous picture of a pretty girl in a wedding dress. Pic: Rod Fleming[/caption]The Big Snip. Vasectomy, that is. This is a contraceptive procedure performed on men, wherein the connections to the male testes are severed, by cutting a tube called the vas deferens; thus, vas-ectomy. The result is that though the man can continue to enjoy sex normally, he’s shooting blanks, as it were, since his seminal fluid, which is mainly produced in the prostate, contrary to popular opinion, contains no sperm and is therefore incapable of fertilising an ovum.
This procedure has become very popular in many countries, where it is offered as a normal form of contraception. Many men are persuaded that this is the right course of action to take for a number of reasons. But in fact, vasectomy is something that no man should ever, under any circumstances, consider doing, and I will explain why.
