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Live Vasectomy
28/09/2005
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John Klapwijq
John Klapwijq and his partner Lisa have been together for 9 years. They have three children, Layken who's 14 years old, a 12 year old (from Lisa's previous relationship) and Julisa who's 4.
John and Lisa decided they don't want any more children as they believe it is too expensive to bring up a child in London, his daughter's school fees cost 6k a year alone! It's also a contraception issue with his partner. He did go for one 2 years ago but got cold feet.
Surgeon Tim Black
Tim is the Chief Executive of Marie Stopes. He has performed roughly 16,000 vasectomy operations. Tim is Dr Tim Black, CBE - and he is the founder and Chief Executive of Marie Stopes International, the UK's largest sexual and reproductive health organisation, also a registered charity. Tim founded the organisation in 1976 when he acquired Marie Stopes House, Britain's oldest functioning family planning clinic, which had been acquired by Marie Stopes herself in 1925. Marie Stopes is regarded as one of the pioneers of the women's movement - she wrote the first ever sex manual - Married Love - that claimed that women were entitled to enjoy sex for its own sake, rather than just to satisfy their husbands or produce children. She opened Britain's first (the world's second) family planning clinic in 1921 in the Holloway Road, and moved it to the Whitfield Street address in 1925.
Tim Black used the acquisition of Marie Stopes House as a platform to launch the globe spanning organisation that became Marie Stopes International. Today, the organisation works in 39 countries worldwide, providing sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning, safe motherhood, safe abortion - where legal, obstetrics, prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS etc.) for over 4.5 million people. Surplus proceeds generated from the work of the UK centres (which are non profit making) go to support the work carried out in developing countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. It was for this crucial and life saving work in particular that Dr Black received his CBE several years ago.
Myths with Dr Chris
Myth 1-After A vasectomy you will go off sex
Many couples find greater sexual freedom once the risk of unwanted pregnancy has been removed. Orgasm and ejaculation are not affected. Sperm continues to be produced be the testicles but its passage to the penis is blocked, and it is re-absorbed by the body. Vasectomy has no effect on the production of male hormones. There is no evidence to suggest that vasectomy will put a man off sex.
Myth 2-You can no longer ejaculate after a vasectomy, the sperm gets reabsorbed into your body.
You can ejaculate.
Myth 3-A vasectomy can lead to impotence
As the testes still produce testosterone there will be no reduction in masculinity, and there is no link between vasectomy and impotence. The male body continues to produce the same male hormones as before the procedure; therefore there will be no change in voice, or any other male characteristic. Vasectomy is not castration. The fact that a small proportion of men agree with the statement 'having a vasectomy is like being castrated' suggests that there is a group of men who associate vasectomy with the removal of a part of their manhood.
Myth 4-Vasectomy causes testicular Cancer
There is no evidence to suggest a casual relationship between having a vasectomy and developing testicular cancer.
Myth 5-Vasectomies are really painful and cause bad swelling
Self-reports from men who have undergone the procedure do not support this belief, and show that the level comfort experiences after the procedure tends to be low.
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