Letters to the Editor
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OUCH again!
DurianJoe, I don't even HAVE a sac, and I'm cringing.
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Valves for your tubes
Every 5 years or so scientists somewhere come up with this idea and it has never actually been implemented yet. In fact I saw a photo of tiny little valves created for this purpose way back in the Seventies in Life magazine.
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@owwwww
And to think I once complained about cramps and/or hot flashes.
Ouch!
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Responses to Melthough & Laurel
Melthough: You're cute like my wife, who cringes every time I tell her about the needles when I donate platelets. You know what? Maybe it's because I'm used to having needles stuck in me from my regular platelet donations, and because I've been kicked in the 'nads more than once in my fight classes (wearing a cup, but still...) that I found the vasectomy to be no big deal, but honestly, the squirm factor is much more mental than physical.
Laurel: If my friend was Brightstar, I would be too depressed to get out of bed in the morning. Despite the rest of it, my friend is not a misogynist. As for condoms, I hated them just like most other guys. I wore them, but I hated them. What the world needs now is a male Pill, but then again, as you pointed out, the Pill doesn't protect against STD's. Alas for the horny single straight guy, there is no easy way out.
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Wouldn't it be nice?
If they can get it work, they can also presumably get it to work on ovarian tubes, ie easily reversible tubals, and wouldn't that be nice too? Give both sexes real control of their bodies and reproductive choices.
Because the fact remains that all current birth control methods suck. The Pill messes with your libido and health, IUDs have serious complications for many women (and once you understand how they really work, can be kinda off-putting). Plan Bs and abortifacts (and abortions) are really not the way you want to go for ongoing family planning, and mechanical systems (diaphragms, cervical cups, condoms) are a pain in the ass, mood killers, and, in the case of condoms, can have a severe impact on the quality of sex (at least for this male type person anyway).
The only really effective & manageable solution is sterilization (which does nothing for STDs, but that is another issue), the reversibility of which is problematic at best. So yeah, if they can get this working for both sexes, hooray, but the idea has actually been kicking around for decades, with no particular success. The key isn't the groovy high-tech business of the remote control, it's making the damn things work at all.
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Thanks, but...
Thanks Ms. Harris for the informative and humorous take on the subject of down under scientists working, heh, down under.
But please please please don't refer to men's genitals as their "junk." That sounds like something Howard Stern would say, not what I hope to read at Salon.com.
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I don't see how this would work
Aren't those vas deferans tubes? They are not a solid structure (Like your Femur), so how would you gaurantee that those mechanicle valves wouldn't move around and out of place. That's the same problem lots of women have with IUDs. They don't stay put, so they move around, you get knocked up, and then the IUD ends up poking you in the uterus, placenta or someplace else scary.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer not to have foreign bodies placed in my body, if at all possible...
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just cut it
I got a vasectomy at 36, no kids, and it's been great. Though I still require women to wear condoms (the "Reality" female condom)
at the beginning, just to be safer about STDs.
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I am wondering
if American women inadvertently put the fear into the American medical device industry so that it took scientists from Australia to develop this device.
After the whole hulabaloo about breast implants and the costly lawsuits, I would not be surprised if American companies might have been gun shy about developing a device that might just as easily lead to similar lawsuits, from unexpected pregnancies, etc.
Or maybe we're just no longer the nation of innovators we thought we were-- unless it is ways to torture people without leaving marks, or ways to make crowds scram, or maybe ways to destroy all the people in a city without touching the precious real estate.
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Yes Brightstar, it's women's fault once again.
There were no tort lawsuits or class actions based on design defects prior to breast implants. It is those damned women who tempt us so, but deny us what we so desperately need, who are to blame.
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Hooray
With two sons, I'm all in favor of more birth control options for the guys. With one nine and the other three, they've got years to get these things working before my boys will need them.
I do have to say it's nice having my tubes tied; since I'm in a monogamous marriage, we don't have to fiddle with BC anymore. Now, if we could only get the little fellow to sleep a bit sooner in the evening...
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Sure, 'cause men are too stupid to use condoms. Or at least that guy is.
Yeah, because there are no women anywhere that have ever been known to use pregnancy to keep a guy, or aren't known to have sabotaged condoms or even worse.
Note to Laurel: ha ha let's make fun of Brightstar! You are such an enlightened individual, why I can practically see the peace rays shooting out of your magical vagina.
Note to Durian Joe: same thing as to Laurel, except in your case I assume it's your magical asshole.
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Will the government be holding the remote control?
I know a girl who is a social worker and believes that couples should have to pass a test of sorts before they are approved to have children. If they master this technology, it can be a reality. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Chinese government implementing this to control their population. Once you're approved, they'll open your valve for a period of time.
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My first thought when reading this ...
... was hooking up the remote-controlled vasectomy to "The Clapper"!
Clap on! *clap clap*
Clap off! *clap clap*
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Nancy Ott
Sorry, this form of birth control won't help at all against the "clap"
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Yeah, because there are no women anywhere that have ever been known to use pregnancy to keep a guy, or aren't known to have sabotaged condoms or even worse
Sure and no man has ever said "Don't worry baby, I'll pull out." or "I'm sterile".
Look, if you're male and concerned that a woman is going to try something like that you have 2 very simple and effective choices:
1) bring and use your own damn condoms, they're cheap and effective. If you're too cheap to buy condoms you deserve what you get
2) DON'T SLEEP WITH HER! Why in the world you'd want to have sex with someone you think is about to betray you is a mystery to me. Stay home and jack off. You're more likely to "score" that way anyway.