Silly vasectomy question

[VenalWinfrey]

First: I'm sure I've spelt vasectomy wrong. If I haven't one point to me! My question is as follows: I'm watching a comedy show on tv, and in this episode one of the guys has had a vasectomy. He didn't tell his wife. She finds out and is not mad. He is perplexed.

My question is basically this - and I warn you, it's a stupid one!...

Do men have a vasectomy to simply stop themselves from being able to further procreate? I know this sounds incredibly fick (sic) but I'm just a bit confused... surely it's easier to wear a condom? Sorry if this offends anyone, it's not meant to. I'm just trying to fathom why guys would permanently recind their natural ability to father children. Any help/advice welcome cheers.

[Ice.Maiden]

Some women can't take oral contraception, and the coil might not be suitable. If a couple decide that they don't want any more children - or indeed any at all - it's easier for a man to have a vasectomy than it is for a woman to be sterilized. Condoms might be useful, but within a permanent relationship - aren't ideal - so it's a kind and thoughtful male who has this op. for his partner's sake.

[neuron]

I can provide you with the reasons why I went for a vasectomy but from speaking to other men, the motives can be very wide ranging.

Anyhow, as far as my wife and I were concerned, she had already had two girls from a previous marriage. at the time we married, the girls were aged ten and five respectively. Now athough there was a history of post-partum haemorrhage in her family, both girls were delivered OK.

When she became pregnant with our son, the pregnancy and birth went like a dream with no problems. Shortly afterwards we decided that three children was enough and neither of us wanted more. As a result, she put her name forward for sterilisation.

The sterilisation op seemed to have gone OK and the clip method was used for securing closed both her fallopian tubes. Around six months later, she began to have unexplainable body pains similar to flu and felt very out of sorts. A GP told her he thought it was virus. Something made my wife suspect that she might be pregnant and she did a home pregnancy test. The result was positive - the GP has never lived it down.

The pregnancy itself went OK, but my wife haemmorrhaged post partum severely and almost died. Her entire blood volume was transfused three times, which I think is about 24 pints and she was at death's door for almost a week drifting in and out of consciousness. It frightened the hell out of me but she did slowly recover over a period of three months.

Following investigations almost a year later, it turned out that the gynaecologist who performed the sterilisation had not secured one of the clips properly on one fallopian tube.

[neuron]

I then said I would go for a vasectomy as I was not prepared for my wife to risk her life again. I paid to have it done privately at a cost of �70 by a urologist at his own home. Three consecutive monthly samples of semen were to be taken before I was to be given the all clear. The first was negative, the second was positive. It turned out that the tubes had regrown back together. We were horrified and although the surgeon offered to do the job again for free in hospital, I refused.

A year later, my wife was re-sterilised by cauterisation. This time the job was done properly.

Yes, we secured just over �10000 from the hospital for clinical negligence over the first sterilisation on the steps of the court to which they readily admitted. However, more important than that was the life of my wife and that's why I had decided to have a vasectomy. It's just ironic that my sterilisation was a failure too.

[compostheap]

Well, in most cases it is 99.9 % sure to stop unwanted pregnancies .And as most married couples are faithful to each other , there is no need to wear a condom once you have had the all clear from the clinic that the snip has worked and your firing blanks ! Very rarely the tubes can re-heal together and cause some major domestics !