Borknager said:
Keep in mid you might get flamed for this, but anyone who wants to bash, **** em, cause when you're 40 you'll be abl;e to do what ya want when ya want and have disposable income, while they will be in a downward spiral of baby momma drama, child support payments, etc/ anyone who would want to have a child or marriage with the women of today is out of their mind.
I see the value in a vasectomy myself; I've even seriously considered it. For the same reasons. Fear of getting the wrong girl pregnant -- witnessing unpleasant lives around me because a singe sperm slipped loose and drove it home and now his name is Harold.
But not all marriages suck. Not all people who have babies are going through drama or losing their life savings.
I do think the big issue a doc might want you to abstain or reconsider is look: how many 26 year olds have had some issues? How many 50 year olds here might say they went through some rough times in their younger years? Some of those guys may have even considered a vasectomy too--but eventually life transpired, they met a woman they validated and trusted...things didn't seem so dark anymore...
Acne can be resolved with diet and topicals and a variety of things (tea tree oil does some amazing things), alcoholism is something you can change in yourself! Both of these things you can probably do a lot to change!
That leaves on your list: mental issues. Well, welcome to the ****ing club called HUMANITY. Mental issues abound. Our society I am sure, and the nature of its construction or our values, has nothing to do with lunacy....ahem...we live in an odd place man...buildings and cars in abundance that no other window of humanity has ever experienced (think of this, these mega cities are really 100 years old in their scope of height and infrastructure) ... most all of humanity (estimated to be 300,000 y/o) has mostly lived with less than 1 billion people on the planet and a lack of jet aircrafts, etc. To not be a little mentally tweaked at times, by the nature of things here, I would say would be a greater indicator of mental issues.
Consider this: condom + birth control is going to be pretty damn close to effective.
On the other hand -- if you really think you've got issues, and you don't trust yourself enough to keep track of your sperm, than maybe you ought to have a vasectomy. It would seem in a world with overpopulation, docs shouldn't be pushing people away who want to prevent impregnation.
But I do know where you are coming from. All the drama of so many people and all of the babies screaming...jebus...maybe getting this thing snipped wouldn't be so bad, and there's always adoption yes?
I just know it is very easy to get one done -- and cheap -- but my research revealed about a 30% success rate in reversing a vasectomy, and it's not cheap -- maybe 3x the cost of the original procedure. So you ought to be damn damn sure this is what you want. I am at a place where I say -- okay -- I'm 26 -- 15 years from now I might regret this -- I might meet a really great woman worthy of my babies, and I might be in the right place mentally to do it.
BORK, I'm not knocking you here or vasectomies, I'm "just sayin" and I am curious how others perceive such a thing.
