Older players (late 40s/50s & up), tell us what you would do differently if you could go back 20 years looking through the RP lens.

I'll elaborate if he won't.

Vasectomy was an interesting thing. Cost $495. Took 15 minutes, done by the apparent world record holder for vasectomies, I think he's at like 30k done. He even goes to the third world and does them for free, he's a believer in men having a right to decide to reproduce. No incision, no scalpel, no needle. Anesthetic is fired through the skin, it hurts about as much as rubber band being snapped on your skin, very tolerable. Work is done by two quick pokes of a hemostat, and each hole is used to expose the vas; incision is made on the tunica vaginalis, vas is bisected. Upper (penis) end of the vas is cauterized, lower end is clipped with a tiny titanium clip called a VasClip. One end is left in the tunica vaginalis, one end is not, causing them to become permanently disaligned. All of this is called an open-ended vasectomy, and has functionally identical success rates as the traditional scalpel method, but the healing is much quicker, and open-ended allows for some pressure to be relieved.

However...

5% of all vasectomy patients suffer from chronic pain forever. I was one of those 5%. This combined with ethical/religious concerns caused me to go have the vasectomy reversed.

Reversal. Cost about $7500 CASH. No insurance covers it. Some local governments pay for vasectomies, but never reversals. I could have gone cheaper, but my surgeon had a 6% higher success rate than industry standard. 4 hour procedure, you're intubated and totally anesthetized. Surgery takes place under a 400? power microscope I believe, sutures are thinner than a human hair. The nature of the procedure requires that the testicle be removed from the body (but still connected, of course) through a two-inch incision on each side of the scrotum. No ejaculations for 28 days after the procedure. No heavy lifting for months. Within a few months, verified by sperm testing, your counts and motility should return to normal. My counts were amazing almost immediately, but motility took a little while. Most importantly I now longer have chronic pain, and in the process of the surgery, the surgeon was kind enough to correct a retractile testicle (basically where a testicle goes inside, often in cold water or rough sex).

Do I regret this? HELL NO. That vasectomy kept me from knocking up my ex-wife while we were married, as well as countless women from the bars afterwards. I love coming inside. It's awesome.

The interesting downside to a vasectomy is that women, when they find out, are at firsts toked about going off of BC, but then they get "bored." Basically a woman is hard-wired to move on if a male doesn't impregnate her after a while. So I was Mr. Right Now, and never Mr. Right.

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