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Re:The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men by antihero on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:51AM (#3775163)
I am 23 years old, I'd consider myself rational about most things, but this scares me absolutely shitless. I know that's dumb, but if someone like me is made extremely nervous about screwing with my method of reproducing, then that can indicate what other people are feeling.

Secondly, I see orgasm as a highly pressurised, highly tuned, intense thing. It feels like I'm straining every part of my balls to the limit when I'm doing this - if I had medical procedures down there, anything that could psychologically make me feel they were frail, that would utterly ruin it.

Re:The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men by pilgrim689 on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:31AM (#3776415)
If it's of any consolation, they don't cut open the whole scrotum or anything. They make a pinhole (that's tiny!) incision, and reach for the vas deferens just enough to inject it with a syringe.

And I don't think it does anything to make you feel like your balls are "frail". So far the only side-effects I've read about are a possibility of swelling for 1 week after the operation. Then, you're back to your old non-frail-balls self!

Re:The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men by silentscope on Saturday March 31, 2012 @12:17AM (#3779331)
I have to say, I love how frank this discussion is. If we weren't talking about testicles, I would say I hope this is what every HN discussion would be like.