"Why should women be in control of whenıand ifıthey have children?"

Um, maybe because they are the ones who have to carry the kid around for 9 months and deal with the nausea, weight gain, and aches and pains, not to mention the excruciating birth, and they are the ones who will most likely have to raise the kid alone if their father decides to bail. If these guys are so "sick of it", as your article claims, maybe they should wear a condom (which, by the way, also protects against STDs, unlike the quickie vasectomies you're advertising as though it's a trendy thing to do). It takes two people to make a baby, not just a woman trying to trick a man.

have you so-called men ever heard of condoms? stds? hello? if you're so worried about getting a woman pregnant, there are easy, cheap ways to avoid doing just that. and you could always go the government-sanctioned abstinence route. works for the bush administration!

but seriously, if you're in the habit of having unprotected sex with women you don't truse, you might want to reconsider your own choices in life.

ps: CONDOMS.

"Get ready for equal-opportunity irresponsibility."

and this! as if one gender ever owned a monopoly on sexual/parental irresponsibility.

i can't believe someone gets paid to write this flippant dumbassery.

At first glance this is kind of enraging. Sort of like the "no fat chicks" brigade. But on further thought it is nothing but goodness. The "no fat chicks" bellowers easily show you who to avoid. If everyone would just wear their ass-holetry upon their sleeves we'd all be better off. Do you really want men who think of sex in such a casual meaningless way and children as nothing but problems they have to deal with for 18 years breeding anyway? Didn't think so.

Go get those vasectomies!

I happen to agree with some points of this article. Yes, there are some women out there that are going to want to get pregnant and yes they are going to do whatever they can to make that happen.

This isn't a call to get yourself snipped, this is a call to get your head straight. Use condoms, or just pass up sex if you think someone is going to "oops" you. Life's too short to worry about this type of thing.

But still, there are women out there like that, and they're the truly irresponcible ones. They're just as irresponcible as men who don't protect themselves and saddle the women with the responsibility of birth control.

We don't have to say hello to equal opportunity irresponcibility...we're already there.

Ugh. This article is a total crock of poo. I mean, ıTim Vass?ı Right. As in vasectomy. And young Marcus Whitlock was able to lie about his age to get the procedure done? Unless he had it performed on the pool table of his local bar, Iıd imagine heıd have to show some sort of ID. No?

Totally rank ıjournalismı here.

I don't know how accurate this story is, but I'd like to point out how much easier it is for men to get vasectomies than for women to get tubal ligations. Most women are flat-out refused if they're young and/or haven't had any kids. I'm a woman who doesn't want children at all, and the idea of a quick, easy surgery like a vasectomy sounds WONDERFUL.

How about this novel idea: sex has consequences, deal with them or don't do it. Sure, sex is fun but so are a lot of things like sports or eating your favorite food. But would you play baseball without a mitt? No, because you'd hurt the hell out your damn hand. Do you eat donuts for every meal? No, because, while they taste good, they're really bad for you...Even our enlightened "real" young American man knows that much. Sex is the same way; if you're worried about someone tricking you into fatherhood, don't bang any chick that walks by, sack up and wear a damn condom and stop acting like a selfish child when it comes to taking responsibility for your actions!

seriously. the author overlooks (or find unnecessary) the entire std-prevention reasoning behind condoms. unwanted pregnancy is unwanted, indeed; but so is chlamydia (or *much* worse). yes we all know that it just doesn't feel as good strapped down, and yes we all know that what we really want is to feel a woman (etc.) like we're supposed to. but any man who wants to jump in head first, and any woman who wants him to for that matter, is, in my opinion, not considering the whole picture. and this article does little (zero) to encourage safe(r) sex. it encourages the opposite. and that's disgusting.

WOW. If men didn't need to stick it to every thing that walks, we wouldn't have this problem. Young men getting vasectomies early will undoubtedly celebrate now and most likely not be able to procreate in the future. Maybe this is a good thing! Haven't you guys learned yet? It never pays to think with the smaller of your two heads. And accidental...don't get me started..."dealing with a mistake for 18 years" It's only an mistake when you do nothing to correct it before it's too late, abortion, adoption...there are ways to help these kids be around less destructive men who will consider them 'burdens' their entire lives...which do NOT end at 18. How many of these men stopped needing their parents at 18? I say let these fools snip, they know it all at this age anyway! How many of these guys will end up passing around std's?

As someone who got a vasectomy when I was 18 (sadly more than a few years ago) it is sad to see that this article had such a "it's all about me" focus. We are now well into population overshoot. As others here have pointed out, a vasectomy does not allow you to have sex with anything that moves at anytime without a condom. What it does is reduce population growth. If you want a "me" focus on that, you can certainly argue that if you get a vasectomy you don't have to recycle you can drive a Hummer, since your children (and their children, etc. etc.) won't happen and neither will their negative impact on the environment. That kicks the ass of the guy with the Prius and the two kids next door, huh?! For more dismaying info: http://www.paulchefurka.ca/

I'd be curious to see statistics on what percentage of people regret becoming parents. I've read that over half of all pregnancies are unplanned, and that, in itself, is disturbing. People are creating people without actually intending to ("Oops, I've just made a person!").

Every child should be a wanted (and planned) child, because we all know -- we read it every day in the newspapers -- what happens to unplanned, unwanted, unloved, neglected and abandoned children (hint: You can visit them in prisons and cemeteries.).

Jerry Steinberg
Founding Non-Father of NO KIDDING!
The international social club for childless and childfree couples and singles
www.nokidding.net; info@nokidding.net

I was interviewed for this article. I paid in cash so didn't have to show any ID. I'm single so didn't require a wife's signature. I love kids, just don't want to raise any- I'd rather live my life like I've been doing. Can always adopt later in life too. If you can afford it then go for it-never have to worry about birth control again.

Um, men use condoms because they would not be liking the STDs that result from unprotected sex, not because they want to ride bareback all the time. Way to make men sound like idiots.

Seems to me a guy taking control of his own fertility is being completely responsible, not irresponsible.

Oh, and newsflash, writer: Michael Scott is not real and where are your stats citing that men will "regret" it?

interesting article, but i was amazed that the writer didn't see fit to address the other main reason condoms are used-- protection against STI's! men taking responsibility for birth control is great, and i'm all for the snip snip... but to imply that vasectomies can used in place of condoms is socially irresponsible. Details should know better than to publish an article that completely ignores the other major role condoms fulfill. no wonder 1 in 5 Americans has genital herpes... it's ridiculous that in this day and age so many people are still practicing unsafe sex.

Please. As convenient as it may be to paint all young men with vasectomies with a broad brush, your stereotyping falls short. My husband had one when he was 25, after he realized he would never want children. At that point, why risk the high rates of failure of other forms of birth control?

And no, he does not "stick it to anything that moves". I was his only lover then, and I am his only lover now. It was an act of sacrifice to spare the woman he loved the more serious surgery of tubal ligation.

There are many reasons for getting sterilized young. As long as you treat it as permanent and go into it knowingly, I don't see why anyone would question your decision. After all, the worst case scenario is having to go the adoption route for children - a path that gives a needy child a home and saves the straining Earth from one more straw of overpopulation. So what, exactly, is the harm?

I was interviewed for this article.

Safe sex is unrelated to vasectomy. I have no doubts that when a man is speaking to his doctor about the procedure, his doctor emphasizes this point. I know mine did.

Many of the commenters here seem to be thinking only of single, completely unattached men having casual sex. This completely ignores committed relationships, a situation in which safe sex becomes less of an issue (assuming monogamy) and pregnancy becomes the bigger threat.

I have known I did not want to be a father since my late teens. The prospect of accidental pregnancy was an ever-present threat, making sex far from enjoyable and by no means spontaneous. My sex life with my wife is far better than it would be if the specter of accidental pregnancy was still hanging over us.

It's too bad the fathers of these fine guys didn't have vasectomies. The world would have been spared such deep thinkers.

To repeat : it's too bad the fathers of these fine guys didn't have vasectomies. The world would have been spared these deep thinkers.

I dispute the label of "sucker" for T. Brady. As per usual,everything is coming up roses for him.He is still handsome,charming and a fine athlete.He has fathered a son/heir which is usually every man's wish with little emotional involvement,and no inconvenience or disturbance in his high stepping life style. He doesn't have to give this child a second thought, which apparently he rarely does but someday if he should become interested,well,feat accomplished. His fatherhood costs him little.As any mature person knows, if the price is money,it's cheap. He can well afford the tax deductible child support.
And there is the galpal known for pornier poses. But when she wants to portray a more wholesome and "maternal" image,the paps get a picture of her holding the baby.What a PR dream these two are!.

I read the article about "birth-control extremists" and kept waiting til I got to the part about the "extremists". Some guys don't want to have kids and so they get a veasectomy. What's extreme about that? It's a minor, inexpensive operation, with a brief recovery time. Sounds like a reasonable, responsible decision to me.

BTW, for all these folks posting on here about STDs, ask yourself which you would rather have: Syphillis, which is cheaply, quickly & completely curable, or an unwanted child?

Gentlemen, notice how the harpies that have chimed in make no distinction between promiscuous sterilized men that don't use condoms, and promiscuous sterilized men who do use condoms.

This is because the no-condom issue is a front for what is TRULY boiling their black harpy blood: Men exercising their reproductive rights WITHOUT the consent or approval of a woman!

Reproduction is central to a woman's identity -whether they want to be a bio mother or not. As such, women -consciously or unconsciously- have a twisted sense of carte blanche about the issue; to the degree that they view a man who autonomously makes a decision about his fertility as an infringement upon their reproductive rights.
Disgusting.

The fair and just equation should read as such: HER BODY, HER CHOICE.
HIS BODY, HIS CHOICE.

But what the harpies want is an equation reads: HER BODY, HER CHOICE.
HIS BODY, HER CHOICE.

Let the harpies scream bloody murder if they will.

As long as a man takes charge of his fertility, he need not be concerned with what a woman says or thinks about reproduction. At the very least he need not worry about being oopsed. ,
By the way gentlemen, know this: of those who would have you believe that oopsing is a
rare occurrence, the majority are, and will be -women.

for all these people enraged about this article, you obviously have never been in the situation of a faked pregnancy. I haven't experiance any serious tragedy in my life and im grateful for that, but when i got duped it was the most emotionally scaring event in my life. There's no way to explain it, other than its a complete headf%#@. I was pretty sure it was all a play to keep us together, because i did use protection, but there wasnt anything i could do until i finally got the results.

I do want kids someday, so i would not ever consider a vasectomy, but condoms don't really give me piece of mind from a pregnancy. For me its simple, i just dont have sex with girls that im not dating. As a college student that sucks, but its not nearly as bad as the alternative.

Amen, I got one. You just don't know till you have tried it. it was easy and life has been good. I call it orgasm immaculate. take the power back.

Ditto to your amen Dickgranet.

Men can spare women the tumultuous ills of pregnancy -as listed by the first harpy that chimed in- by getting a vasectomy.

Take note oopsing harpies, this is nothing compared to what will happen when RISUG is released.

This is pretty irresponsible article - nothing about STDs at all or responsible use of condoms. Did an editor even see this article?

Here's a longer response to the article:
http://tiny.cc/C6Cu8

I don't think my original post went through - please excuse the possible double-post.

I think this is a pretty irresponsible article. No mentions of STD's or proper and responsible use of condoms at ALL. Did an editor even see this?

Here's a longer comment on the article if anyone is interested:
http://tiny.cc/C6Cu8

If you think that letting a doctor operate on your boys because you're worried about the loose women you sleep with getting after you for child support payment, please, by all means, get a vasectomy. This is vastly preferable to allowing you to breed.

Being in an all trusting, wholly committed, love imbued lifelong relationship with the woman of a man's dreams will not prevent a condom from breaking.

Being in an all trusting, wholly committed, love imbued lifelong relationship with the woman of a man's dreams will not prevent his sperm cell from fertilizing said woman's egg after the condom has broken.

Let me spell it out for the anti-reproductive-rights-for-men crowd:

STERILIZED AND UNSTERILIZED PROMISCUOUS MEN SHOULD ALWAYS WEAR CONDOMS. FOR THE FORMER, TO PROTECT AGAINST DISEASE. FOR THE LATTER, TO PROTECT AGAINST DISEASE AND PREVENT CONCEPTION.

There.

So, lets get down to what's REALLY pissing people off: men exercising their reproductive rights without the consent or approval of a woman.

By the way, even the fecal-matter-eating fly can reproduce, so stop putting reproduction on a pedestal.

Being in an all trusting, wholly committed, love imbued lifelong relationship with the woman of a man's dreams will not prevent a condom from breaking.

Being in an all trusting, wholly committed, love imbued lifelong relationship with the woman of a man's dreams will not prevent his sperm cell from fertilizing said woman's egg after the condom has broken.

Let me spell it out for the anti-reproductive-rights-for-men crowd:

STERILIZED AND UNSTERILIZED PROMISCUOUS MEN SHOULD ALWAYS WEAR CONDOMS. FOR THE FORMER, TO PROTECT AGAINST DISEASE. FOR THE LATTER, TO PROTECT AGAINST DISEASE AND PREVENT CONCEPTION.

There.

So, lets get down to what's REALLY pissing people off: men exercising their reproductive rights without the consent or approval of a woman.

By the way, even the fecal-matter-eating fly can reproduce, so stop putting reproduction on a pedestal.

As the men had nothing to do with women getting pregnant. You people should try self control. Don't f*ck everything that isn't nailed down, dumbasses! It is a good thing these bozos are getting snipped. A lot better than the horror of them making more men like them. The only problem now is they will have loads of unprotected sex and spread STDs like wildfire. Nasty. I think they should have it all removed (penis included) and save mankind from their diseases.

Just one comment to the writer of this article and to the person who thinks syphilis is a walk in the park: AIDS.

Unless sterilized men start raping women there will be absolutely NO increase in the STD rate.

It's simple:

Women who insist on condom usage before engaging in vaginal or anal intercourse will CONTINUE to do so whether a man CLAIMS to be sterilized or not. Period.

Women who have no regard for the use of a condom before engaging in vaginal or anal intercourse will REMAIN so, whether a man CLAIMS to be sterilized or not. Period.

Unless sterilized men start raping women there will be absolutely NO increase in the STD rate.

It's simple:

Women who insist on condom usage before engaging in vaginal or anal intercourse will CONTINUE to do so whether a man CLAIMS to be sterilized or not. Period.

Women who have no regard for the use of a condom before engaging in vaginal or anal intercourse will REMAIN so, whether a man CLAIMS to be sterilized or not. Period.

Dudes,

I was afraid of getting a girl pregnant, so I can relate to the motivation of getting a vasectomy. But from a health perspective, it is a bad idea. Are you prepared to have a dull ache in your balls for up to 20 years? Your balls get so sensitive, you can forget sports, especially contact sports like martial arts. It is not worth damaging a healthy organ to suit a lifestyle. There are long-term health consequences for doing this. Figure out another way.