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Voices: Why Getting a Vasectomy Has Made Me Feel More of a Man
MSN ^ | Chris Mullan

Posted on 11/01/2023 11:31:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Hearing the news this week that Wayne Rooney got a vasectomy makes me think of my own decision to go under the knife. If I’m honest, in the three years it’s been since the procedure, I’ve often wondered if it was the right thing to have done. But every time my mind wanders there, I take a moment and, with a clear head, see it as being one of the best and most important decisions of my life.

Already blessed with children from previous relationships, I met my current and forever partner. She also had two children from a previous relationship, so between us we had a larger-than-average family. This is probably not uncommon in a blended-family situation, but the realities of having such a large brood soon became apparent – the logistical obstacles and need for larger vehicles, among a host of other things.

But like plenty of new couples, we definitely both felt what I can only describe as a sort of “urge” that simmered under the surface. I guess it’s one of the most primaeval urges we feel – bringing a new life into the world with the person you love.

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1 posted on 11/01/2023 11:31:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Lock up your wymyn and all under-age kids.


2 posted on 11/01/2023 11:33:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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3 posted on 11/01/2023 11:35:34 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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If he really felt like a man he wouldn’t need to broadcast it to everyone.


4 posted on 11/01/2023 11:36:45 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: nickcarraway

Did it in the early 80’s. No regerts. ✂


5 posted on 11/01/2023 11:38:42 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: nickcarraway

A real man would have got a castration. Then he could have joined the local boys choir.


6 posted on 11/01/2023 11:38:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We're seeing why the "younger" generations are not patriotic. They're big fans of terrorists.)
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To: New Perspective

What happens in Vegas, you pay 18 years of child support over.


7 posted on 11/01/2023 11:38:51 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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So…not to be a noodge, but what happens to the one out of 2,000? Do they kill the baby?

“vasectomy -Out of 2,000 men who are sterilised, 1 will get a woman pregnant during the rest of his lifetime.Dec 20, 2022“


8 posted on 11/01/2023 11:38:56 AM PDT by stanne
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After 4x kids, getting a vasectomy was my cheapest option since Mrs Toad seemed to get pregnant at the drop of a hat.


9 posted on 11/01/2023 11:40:33 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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So you want to enjoy the pleasures of marriage without the sacrifices and burdens that come with more children that are the natural consequences of that act. That’s not being empowered, its being selfish.


10 posted on 11/01/2023 11:41:23 AM PDT by Petrosius
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I think the odds are greater than that. There is a football player who has two kids after his vasectomy.


11 posted on 11/01/2023 11:41:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: New Perspective

Picks up someone else’s castoffs ?


12 posted on 11/01/2023 11:42:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nickcarraway

Last I saw, it raises the risk of prostate cancer.


13 posted on 11/01/2023 11:42:28 AM PDT by PAR35
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He sounds very sensitive… lol


14 posted on 11/01/2023 11:42:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Decades ago I was flipping thru the channels when suddenly there was a close up of a testicle with what resembled a bean sprout sticking out of it and a scissors clipping it.

Talk about bad timing. I actually felt pain from just seeing that and determined that I would never want to experience that for real ever ever ever.

15 posted on 11/01/2023 11:45:45 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: SaxxonWoods

At his age, still ruminating about “feeling like a man” is not a healthy sign. Never heard of this guy but, self-absorbed liberal weenie is my guess.


16 posted on 11/01/2023 11:46:33 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: Petrosius

oh piffle. Not every act of intercourse is expected to make a baby.
leave people to live their lives in peace.


17 posted on 11/01/2023 11:48:25 AM PDT by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Ours kept getting bigger. The last two were 11 and 12 1/2 pounds at birth.

I couldn’t risk my wife going through another massive birth. So I got snipped.


18 posted on 11/01/2023 11:49:13 AM PDT by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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To: Petrosius

BS


19 posted on 11/01/2023 11:50:21 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: nickcarraway

Getting a vasectomy sounded too uncomfortable to me.

So I made my wife get a Tubal Ligation.

/kidding


20 posted on 11/01/2023 11:50:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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