THE MAN AND THE METHOD – CONCLUSION 2

Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 7:24 am

Finally, what of the end of his fertile period? Old father time is an archetype of the past, present and future. Men can father children in their 70s and it is less natural to cut off a man’s fertility than a woman’s, that will in any case fail. Post-vasectomy counselling is not as widely available as it should be and regrets can linger.

As a last insight, one man spoke about withdrawal, describing it as ‘Terrible, doctor.’ Then he thought a moment, and added, ‘Actually that is not quite true because we used it while I waited for the results of the specimens after vasectomy. That was really our last excitement.’ Excitement and terror are closely linked. Excitement is easy to admit. Terror less so, but what was shared here was a tinge of sadness for his lost reproductive powers.

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