Incise the scrotum, cut the channels through which the sperm travel, close.
Vasectomy is a simple, effective contraceptive technique, devoid of complications, reversible and requiring neither general anesthesia nor hospitalization.
And yet, it remains shunned by the French… In question, among other things, the tormented history of this medical technique, the object of many fantasies.
“It is difficult to find another surgical procedure so simple (…) that has caused so much medical and social controversy for more than a century
,” wrote New York urologist Dr. Yefim Sheynkin in 2009 in
Urologic clinics
.
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