Actually I do know who needs to hear it - people like this: https://twitter.com/kazweida/status/1521312672465051649
I know it's not the most important thing right now, but since the Roe v Wade news there have been a bunch of tweets encouraging men to get vasectomies, and/or trying to analogize between female birth control methods and vasectomies, that include some assertion to the effect of "you can just get it reversed later when you're ready for kids".
This is not true. Yes, the vasectomy reversal procedure exists but its success rate is not very good (70% at best), and the likelihood of restoring fertility only goes down as more time passes since the initial vasectomy. This is why urologists advise their patients to consider a vasectomy to be a permanent procedure.
I won't say much more about it, other than it would be nice if more forms of male birth control (e.g. Vasalgel) entered the market soon.
I've heard there's a pill entering human trials soon which would be nice if the side effects aren't insane like existing hormonal options. On the other hand, the vasectomy procedure was easier than getting my wisdom teeth taken out or a sleeve tattoo. An uncomfortable lidocaine injection and a tugging sensation, but I carried on a normal conversation with the urologist and walked out of the clinic right after the procedure. Three days of using a CBD vape and I was pain-free. Becoming fertile again or going the IVF route would be expensive when I know I can provide an ideal environment for a kid, but even more expensive would be accidentally having a kid for at least a decade. Any risk of that is unacceptable and I didn't like the ethical disconnect of my partners having to go on more invasive options because I'm also like a Zapatista but against condoms.
When I have talked about getting a vasectomy people always try to pitch the idea to me that "If you do invitro later its expensive". You don't have kids to fucking save money, and the idea that you shouldn't because you are protecting yourself from a single big bill is silly to me.
To me it is the ultimate family planning. People can't afford to just fuck carelessly like boomers and wind up with a kid, it makes more sense than anything.
There are also lots of children that deserve to be adopted, even if reversing the surgery doesn't produce fertility again.
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Getting it done definitely made adoption more attractive to me if I eventually want kids. Especially since one of my big reasons for not wanting them is that there is no future for children, it'd at least be taking one of the already-damned and giving them a shot.
It's been "just around the corner" for decades. Would be nice to see it actually come out though.