We want your stories for Vasectomy Week at Dads & Families
We want your vasectomy stories, anecdotes, essays, insights for the Dads & Families section. Could be your friends’ or family members’ stories. Could be anything. I want to inaugurate a vasectomy week; I wanna do what Bob Barker did for LA-based pets for dads; I wanna run great pieces on the discussions that went down between spouses, the thought process of deciding on it, the deliberations, the process itself, the consequences of it, reversals, about those who changed their minds, about vasectomies gone wrong, about overcoming the fear, about anything to do with the idea of vasectomies.
In the spirit of personal disclosure, my wife got an IUD that is set to expire, so I have a personal interest in your accounts that transcend those of just an editor.
Let your writer dad friends know. Don’t be intimidated by length–of what you’re writing! I’ll take a paragraph. I’ll take a memoir (in part). It won’t take long, it’s a snap!
We’re shooting for the first week of January to have all content. We’ve got permission to supplement your personal narratives with clinical advice from the nation’s preeminent vasectomy specialist, Dr. Harry Fisch, who has said, “The penis is the dipstick of the body’s health.”
Email your essays, pitches, queries to Dads & Families editor [email protected].
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After my wife had completed her five years on the Norplant birth control system, I told her that I would go in for a vasectomy. The year was 1996, after seeing her in much pain from having the Norplant tubes removed from her arm, we felt this was the best decision for us. We had two children and didn’t want anymore so the vasectomy was a good choice for us. I remember telling my mom about our decision and she commented that I must really love my wife. For me to make this decision to take charge of the birth… Read more »
*** Moderators. Please fix any grammatical errors you find. I am not much of a wordsmith My story could be considered “cautionary” in nature. First, the back story. About 10 years ago, after many discussions with my partner, I made the concrete decision that I would get a vasectomy. She had been on the “Pill” for the entire time we had been together, but we were both getting worried about long-term side effects. At that point we had been together for 6 years and though I had always wanted to have children, she did not, and no amount of debate… Read more »
I will be quite interested in reading this series. For my Best Half and I, a vasectomy warranted very little discussion or debate. Neither of us have ever wanted children, and at this stage of life, it’s extremely unlikely that we’ll change our mind. For us, his vasectomy was nothing but one ginormous positive (and it gives us a lot of peace of mind). 🙂
Your email is misspelled.
Thanks roe wade. It has been corrected as of 1/3/13.